Brazilian imperial family
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The Imperial House of Brazil is a Brazilian dynasty of Portuguese origin that ruled the Brazilian Empire from 1822 to 1889, from the time when the then Prince Royal Dom Pedro of Braganza declared Brazil's independence, until Dom Pedro II was deposed during the military coup that led to the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889.
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, with his wife Teresa Cristina, and their daughters Isabel (in blue gown) and Leopoldina, 1857
The last picture of the reigning imperial family in Brazil, 1889
Princess Isabel, then-Head of the Imperial House of Brazil, her husband the Count of Eu, their son Prince Luís, his wife Princess Maria Pia, and their children Pedro Henrique, Luiz Gastão, and Pia Maria, 1913
The Imperial Crypt and Chapel in the Monument to the Independence of Brazil in São Paulo, the final resting place of Emperor Pedro I (also King of Portugal as Pedro IV) and his two wives
Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil)
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The Proclamation of the Republic, Coup of 1889, or Coup of the Republic was a military coup d'état that established the First Brazilian Republic on November 15, 1889. It took over the constitutional monarchy of the Empire of Brazil and ended the reign of Emperor Pedro II.
Proclamation of the Republic, by Benedito Calixto (1893)
Allegory of the Republic (1896), painting by Manuel Lopes Rodrigues in the Bahia Art Museum
Homage of the Revista Illustrada to the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic
Cover of the newspaper "A Republica" containing the manifesto