Brazilian Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay.
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26 Facts About Brazilian Empire
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Brazilian Empire ascended the Portuguese throne the following year, after the death of his mother, Maria I of Portugal.
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Brazilian Empire returned to Portugal in April 1821, leaving behind his son and heir, Prince Dom Pedro, to rule Brazil as his regent.
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Jose Bonifacio de Andrada, along with other Brazilian Empire leaders, convinced Pedro to declare Brazil's independence from Portugal on 7 September 1822.
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Brazilian Empire successfully engineered the end of the courtiers' influence by removing them from his inner circle without causing any public disruption.
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Brazilian Empire dismissed the liberals, who had proved ineffective while in office, and called on the conservatives to form a government in 1848.
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The Brazilian Empire government refused to yield, and the consul issued orders for British warships to capture Brazilian Empire merchant vessels as indemnity.
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The Brazilian Empire economy grew rapidly; railroad, shipping and other modernization projects were started; immigration flourished.
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The Brazilian Empire became known internationally as a modern and progressive nation, second only to the United States in the Americas; it was a politically stable economy with a good investment potential.
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Brazilian Empire remained meticulous in performing his formal duties as Emperor, albeit often without enthusiasm, but he no longer actively intervened to maintain stability in the country.
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Brazilian Empire's increasing "indifference towards the fate of the regime" and his inaction to protect the imperial system once it came under threat have led historians to attribute the "prime, perhaps sole, responsibility" for the dissolution of the monarchy to the emperor himself.
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Nation enjoyed considerable international prestige during the final years of the Brazilian Empire and had become an emerging power in the international arena.
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Brazilian Empire dismissed all suggestions put forward by politicians and military leaders for quelling the rebellion.
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Brazilian Empire was tasked with ensuring national independence and stability.
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Brazilian Empire system was relatively democratic for a period during which indirect elections were common in democracies.
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Brazilian Empire was aided by the Ministers of War and Navy in matters concerning the Army and the Armada —although the President of the Council of Ministers usually exercised oversight of both branches in practice.
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Brazilian Empire appointed seven officers to be State Councilors during the 1840s and 1850s, and three others after that.
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The Armed Forces were crucial to the successful outcomes of international conflicts faced by the Brazilian Empire, starting with Independence, followed by the Cisplatine War, then the Platine War, the Uruguayan War and, finally, the Paraguayan War .
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Battalions and even full regiments of soldiers loyal to the Brazilian Empire, who shared the ideals of the older generation of leaders, attempted to restore the monarchy.
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In 1880, the Empire acted as arbiter between the United States and France over the damage caused to U S nationals during the French intervention in Mexico.
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Unit of currency from the Brazilian Empire's founding, and until 1942, was the real, and was derived from the Portuguese real.
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The most influential literary style in 19th-century Brazil, many of the most renowned Brazilian Empire writers were exponents of Romanticism: Manuel de Araujo Porto Alegre, Goncalves Dias, Goncalves de Magalhaes, Jose de Alencar, Bernardo Guimaraes, Alvares de Azevedo, Casimiro de Abreu, Castro Alves, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, Manuel Antonio de Almeida and Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay.
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Brazilian Empire Romanticism did not have the same success in theater as it had in literature, as most of the plays were either Neoclassic tragedies or Romantic works from Portugal or translations from Italian, French or Spanish.
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Brazilian Empire theater became influenced by Realism in 1855, decades earlier than the style's impact upon literature and poetry.
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Brazilian Empire plays staged by national companies competed for audiences alongside foreign plays and companies.
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