1824 in Brazil

Events in the year 1824 in Brazil.

Incumbents

March 25: The Brazilian Constitution of 1824 was adopted, establishing a hereditary Catholic monarchy headed by the emperor Dom Pedro I.^[1]^[2]

May 3: The first German colonists arrive in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

July 18: The first 39 German settlers from Rio Grande do Sul disembark in Porto Alegre.^[4]^[5]

August 20 – João José da Cunha Fidié, a Portuguese general who led the Portuguese forces in the province of Piauí and was killed in the Battle of Jenipapo
September 6 – João Félix Pereira, a Brazilian colonel who fought in the province of Bahia and was wounded in the Siege of Salvador.
October 20 – Álvaro da Costa de Sousa de Macedo, a Brazilian politician and diplomat who served as the first minister of foreign affairs of Brazil and negotiated the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro with Portugal.

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