Deodoro da Fonseca
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Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the head of provisional government and the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas in a military famil
Official portrait, 1889
Aurélio de Figueiredo, Oath of the Constitution, c. 1891.
Military coup of 1889 on 15 November 1889
Marshal Fonseca in 1889, by Bror Kronstrand
The Proclamation of the Republic was a military coup d'état that established the First Brazilian Republic on November 15, 1889. It abolished the constitutional monarchy of the Empire of Brazil and end
Deodoro da Fonseca
…in Alagoas in a military family, followed a military career, and became a national figure. Fonseca took office as provisional president after heading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and established the First Brazilian Republic in 1889, disestablishing the Empire. After his election in 1891, he stepped…
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