State of Brazil
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State of Brazil Estado do Brasil | |||||||||||||||||||
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1621–1815 | |||||||||||||||||||
Status | State of the Portuguese Empire | ||||||||||||||||||
Capital | Salvador (1645–1763) Rio de Janeiro (1763–1815) | ||||||||||||||||||
Common languages | Portuguese | ||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||||||||||
Government | Absolute Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||
Monarch | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1621–1640 | Philip IV of Spain (Philip III of Portugal) | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1750–1777 | Joseph I of Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||
Governor General/Viceroy | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1621 | Luís de Sousa | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1806–1808 | Marcos de Noronha e Brito | ||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||
• End of hereditary captaincies | 1549 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Transference of the capital to Rio de Janeiro | 1763 | ||||||||||||||||||
1792 | |||||||||||||||||||
• Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil | 22 January 1808 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Elevation of Brazil to Kingdom | 16 December 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||
Currency | Portuguese Real | ||||||||||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | BR | ||||||||||||||||||
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The State of Brazil (Portuguese: Estado do Brasil) was one of the states of the Portuguese Empire, in the Americas during the period of Colonial Brazil.
History[]
In 1621, the Governorate General of Brazil was split into two states, the State of Brazil and the State of Maranhão. The state was created on June 13, 1621 by Philip II of Portugal.[1]
This action divided Portuguese America into two administrative units, with the capital of the State of Brazil located in São Salvador and the capital of the State of Maranhão located in São Luís.
The State of Brazil became a Viceroyalty in January 1763, when the capital of the State of Brazil was transferred from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro.
Composition[]
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The State of Brazil originally included 12 of the original 15 captaincies, all except Ceará (which became subordinate to Pernambuco later) and Maranhão, two parts, which included the subcaptaincy of Para west of the Tordesillas Line at that time (north to south):
- (southern Rio Grande & Itamaraca)
- Captaincy of Pernambuco
- Captaincy of Bahia
- (became a comarca of Bahia in 1761)
- (São Tomé and São Vicente first section)
- Captaincy of São Vicente (second section, later renamed )
Captaincies created by the state[]
- 1817 from Pernambuco
- 1799 re-split from Pernambuco (previously existed as one of 15 original donatary captaincies)
- 1820 from Bahia
- (from region of Rio Grande de Sao Pedro)
See also[]
References[]
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- Colonial states of the Portuguese Empire
- Colonial Brazil
- Portuguese colonization of the Americas
- Former Portuguese colonies
- Former subdivisions of Brazil
- 1621 establishments in Brazil
- 1815 disestablishments in Brazil