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Pedro around age 2, c.1800, by Agustín Esteve. Pedro was born at 08:00 on 12 October 1798 in the Queluz Royal Palace near Lisbon, Portugal. [1] He was named after St. Peter of Alcantara, and his full name was Pedro de Alcântara Francisco António João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim.
Pedro II sent Paulo Barbosa to serve as diplomatic envoy to Saint Petersburg in mid-1846. [56] With Paulo Barbosa's influence in eclipse, Aureliano Coutinho lost much of his power and soon found himself stripped of his remaining political clout, "the result of an implicit, if unspoken, ban imposed by Pedro II."
Dom Pedro II (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (Portuguese: O Magnânimo), [1] was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. [ a ]
Enraged, the Emperor promised punishment, but he lacked political support. On April 7, 1831, Pedro I renounced the Empire, leaving the country in the hands of his firstborn, Pedro II, who was five years old; he appointed José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva as guardian of his younger children and left for Portugal. [27]
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 1840 which invested 14-year old Emperor Pedro II of Brazil with legal majority before the normal age of 18, in order to end the troublesome regency that ruled on his behalf and was mired in crises.
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, with his wife Teresa Cristina, and their daughters Isabel (in blue gown) and Leopoldina, 1857. Founded by Pedro of Braganza, until then Prince Royal of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, member of the House of Braganza, heir apparent to the Portuguese throne and the King's representative in the Kingdom of Brazil as Prince Regent, the Imperial ...
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Pedro II, around age 26, c. 1852. At the beginning of the 1850s, Brazil was enjoying internal stability and economic prosperity. [1] [2] The nation was being interconnected through railroad, electric telegraph and steamship lines, uniting it into a single entity. [1]