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The independence struggle against the Portuguese lasted a little over a year, with many battles centered on Itaparica. Maria Filipa is noted as one of three women who participated in the struggle for Bahia's independence in 1823, the others being the military figure Maria Quitéria (1792-1853) and Sister Joana Angélica (1761-1822). [1] [2] [3]
Hahner, June E. Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil (1990) Hilton, Stanley E. Brazil and the Great Powers, 1930–1939. Austin: University of Texas Press 1975. Kerr, Gordon. A Short History of Brazil: From Pre-Colonial Peoples to Modern Economic Miracle (2014) Klein, Herbert S. and Francisco Vidal Luna.
Quitéria has been called the "Brazilian Joan of Arc", [1] and has become a legendary figure in Brazil. Quitéria was the first woman to serve in a military unit in the country. [2] She is known as one the three Bahia women fighters against the Portuguese along with Maria Filipa de Oliveira (died 1873) and Sister Joana Angélica (1761-1822). [3 ...
The land now known as Brazil was claimed by the Portuguese for the first time on 23 April 1500 when the Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on its coast. Permanent settlement by the Portuguese followed in 1534, and for the next 300 years they slowly expanded into the territory to the west until they had established nearly all of the frontiers which constitute modern Brazil's borders.
A Brazilian family and its female house slaves, c. 1860 Slaves and their free children on a coffee farm in Brazil, c. 1885. In 1823, a year after independence, slaves made up 29% of the population of Brazil, a figure which fell throughout the lifetime of the Empire: from 24% in 1854, to 15.2% in 1872, and finally to less than 5% in 1887—the ...
The Imperial House of Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese: Casa Imperial Brasileira) is a Brazilian dynasty of Portuguese origin, a branch of the House of Braganza, that ruled 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 Brazil's independence, until Dom Pedro II was deposed during the ...
This event is known as the "Cry of Ipiranga", the declaration of Brazil's independence, [27] Returning to the city of São Paulo on the night of 7 September 1822, Pedro and his companions announced the news of Brazilian independence from Portugal. The Prince was received with great popular celebration and was called not only "King of Brazil ...
The anti-Portuguese sentiment was in fact a common sentiment across all of Brazil, and helped to keep the country unified during the late colonial periods and the first chaotic years after independence. The Brazilian monarchy was also a unifying factor, as the majority of the elite accepted the authority of the kings and feared the consequences ...