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Brazil

Estados Unidos do Brasil

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Abstract

Brazil was discovered on 3 May 1500 by the Portuguese Admiral Pedro Alvares Cabral, and thus became a Portuguese settlement; in 1815 the colony was declared ‘a kingdom’, and on 13 May 1822 Dom Pedro, eldest surviving son of King João of Portugal, was chosen ‘Perpetual Defender’ of Brazil by a National Congress. He proclaimed the independence of the country on 7 Sept. 1822, and was chosen ‘Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender’ on 12 Oct. 1822.

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S. H. Steinberg Ph. D. (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society)

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© 1965 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Steinberg, S.H. (1965). Brazil. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270947_38

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