State · 1822 – 1889

Empire of Brazil

A state of 1822 – 1889 — 67 years in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and Kingdom of Brazil. It was replaced by Brazil, First Brazilian Republic and Republic of the United States of Brazil. The atlas records 24 things within it — wars and battles 5 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 6 · treaties 2 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 67 years; 1822 – 1889
Rulers: 3; the Emperor of Brazil
Most ground: 8.54 million km²; in 1870
Within it: 24; recorded rows
Symbols: 4; on record, with years

Map: Empire of Brazil in 1870, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Empire of Brazil in 1870, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 8.54 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Kingdom of Brazil · replaces
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves · replaces · 1815 – 1825

After it

Brazil · replaced by · 1889 – present
First Brazilian Republic · replaced by · 1889 – 1930
Republic of the United States of Brazil · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Emperor of Brazil.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Pedro I of Brazil	1822 – 1831	9 years	abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
John VI of Portugal	1825 – 1826	1 year	killedWikidata's manner of death	parent
Pedro II of Brazil	1831 – 1889	58 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	grandchild

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1822 – 1889. Median reign 9 years. 2 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

8.02 million km² in 1822, 8.39 million km² in 1889; at its largest 8.54 million km² in 1872. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Empire of Brazil · CC BY 3.0 · Gusthavum
flag, 1822 – 1822Flag of the Kingdom of Brazil (18 september - 1 december 1822) · Public domain
flag, 1822 – 1889Flag of Brazil (1822–1853) · Public domain
flag, 1853 – 1889Flag of Brazil (1853-1889) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 189923 rows · 5 wars and battles · 7 risings, regime changes and massacres

Pedro II of Brazil · ruler · 1825 – 1891
Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil · person · 1846 – 1921
Ragamuffin War · war · 1835 – 1845
Augusto Tasso Fragoso · politician · 1867 – 1945
Joaquim Nabuco · politician · 1849 – 1910
Brazilian War of Independence · war · 1822 – 1824
Victor Meirelles · artist · 1832 – 1903
Confederation of the Equator · unrest · 1824

and 15 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood67 years
stood longer than 39% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held8,538,200 km²
held more ground at its peak than 98% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century2.0
had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 5 causes the record names and 4 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1812 – 1899, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1870, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q217230 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.