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Empire · approximate1822 – 1889 · 67 years

Empire of Brazil

Overview

The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Pedro I and his son Pedro II. A colony of the Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil became the seat of the Portuguese Empire in 1808, when the Portuguese Prince regent, later King Dom John VI, fled from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and established himself and his government in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. John VI later returned to Portugal, leaving his eldest son and heir-apparent, Pedro, to rule the Kingdom of Brazil as regent. On 7 September 1822, Pedro declared the independence of Brazil and, after waging a successful war against his father's kingdom, was acclaimed on 12 October as Pedro I, the first Emperor of Brazil. The new country was huge, sparsely populated, and ethnically diverse.

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Borders & accuracy

Approximate borders

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

  • SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
  • DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
  • SNAPSHOT1880
  • POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire41

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

+ 17 more in the atlas.

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-74.0°,-33.7° → -34.8°,5.3°WARS-ATLAS / EMPIRE / AMERICAS-EMPIRE-OF-BRAZIL

Cite as: Empire of Brazil (1822 – 1889). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-empire-of-brazil · Sources & methodology