The abdication of emperor Pedro I of Brazil took place on 7 April 1831 in favor of his son Pedro de Alcântara, future emperor Pedro II. The act marked...

Dom Pedro I (12 October 1798 – 24 September 1834) was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil, where he was known as "the Liberator". As King...

unconditional confirmation of his abdication reinforced the impossibility of a new union between Portugal and Brazil. Pedro's abdication of the Portuguese Throne...

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...

Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves as the Brazilian Empire. It is celebrated on 7 September, the date when prince regent Pedro of Braganza declared...

the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Pedro II was born in Rio de Janeiro, the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona...

minority of emperor Pedro II The regencies took place from 1831 to 1840, between the abdication of Pedro I of Brazil until the majority of Pedro II legally...

Dom Pedro I, ruler of the Empire of Brazil, delivers his abdication letter on 7 April 1831 Instrument of abdication signed by King Edward VIII and his...

Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. Abdications have played various roles in the succession procedures of monarchies...

was proclaimed, and ended on April 7, 1831, when Pedro I abdicated the Brazilian throne. When Pedro I declared independence, defeating those who were still...

VI) of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, and the later monarchs of independent Brazil, emperors Peter I and Peter II (Dom Pedro I and Dom Pedro II)....

Emperor D. Pedro I of an independent Brazil in 1822, founding the Empire of Brazil. D. Pedro I ruled Brazil until 1831, when he abdicated in favor of his young...

ruler of Brazil, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg. The only child of her father's second marriage, Maria Amélia was born in France after Pedro I abdicated the Brazilian...

Pedro I of Brazil (Pedro had reigned as King Pedro IV of Portugal but the couple wed after his abdication of the Portuguese Crown) and Duchess of Braganza...

Leopoldina of Brazil. In 1826, her father became king of Portugal but quickly abdicated in favour of the seven-year-old Maria. Both Pedro and Maria remained...

lines. Ferdinand agreed to abdicate his throne, with Francis being appointed regent in 1812. On the abdication of Napoleon I, his father returned to Naples...

Pedro II. From the Brazilian proclamation of independence in 1822 until the 1831 abdication, an anthem that had been composed by Pedro I himself, celebrating...

January 1873) was Empress of Brazil as the wife of Pedro I of Brazil. She was the granddaughter of Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French. Her father...

the history of the Empire of Brazil, between the abdication of Emperor Pedro I, on 7 April 1831, and the declaration of majority of Pedro II, who was...

moment in Brazilian history. Pedro I, the first emperor of Brazil, abdicated the Brazilian throne on 7 April 1831 in favor of his son Pedro de Alcântara...

princess of the Empire of Brazil and thus, a member of the Brazilian branch of the Portuguese House of Braganza. Her parents were Emperor Dom Pedro I, the...

Declaration of majority of Pedro II (Portuguese: Declaração da Maioridade de D. Pedro II ) was a document signed by the General Assembly of Brazil on 23 July...

3x-great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, Dom Pedro II. Born in Petrópolis, Brazil on 26 April 1986, he is the third child and second son of Prince Antônio...

1822. After abdicating the throne, on April 7, 1831, he was succeeded by his son Pedro de Alcântara, who reigned as Pedro II of Brazil. The third woman...

indigenous people in Brazil. The Portuguese arrived to the land that would become Brazil on April 22, 1500, commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, an explorer...

the Brazilian Empire from 1822 to 1889, from the time when the then Prince Royal Dom Pedro of Braganza (later known as Emperor Pedro I of Brazil) declared...

succession of King John VI, Pedro I departed for Portugal to reclaim his daughter's crown after abdicating the Brazilian throne in favor of his five-year-old son...

Maria Leopoldina of Austria (22 January 1797 – 11 December 1826) was the first Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Dom Pedro I from 12 October 1822...

Dom Pedro I and the Brazilians that opposed him. It was one of the main events from the period that immediately preceded the monarch's abdication (in...

transferred from Lisbon to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in a strategic retreat of Queen Maria I of Portugal, prince regent John, the Braganza royal...