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Podcast: Brazilian Portuguese Podcast
Episode: Real Brazilian Conversations #46 – Proclamação da República
Description: In this episode we talk about the Proclamation of the Republic.
The Proclamation of the Republic (Portuguese: Proclamação da República do Brasil) was a military coup that established the First Brazilian Republic on November 15, 1889. It overthrew the constitutional monarchy of the Empire of Brazil and ended the reign of Emperor Pedro II.
The proclamation of the Republic took place in Rio de Janeiro, then capital of the Empire of Brazil, when a group of military officers of the Brazilian Army, led by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, staged a coup d’état without the use of violence, depo...