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
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
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
Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil)
…The coup took place in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of the Empire at the time, when a group of military officers of the Imperial Army, led by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, staged a coup d'état without the use of violence, deposing Emperor Pedro II and the President of the Council of Ministers of the Empire, the Viscount…
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