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Brazil - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brazil |
 | | This led the young regent to declare the independence of Brazil and to proclaim himself emperor as Pedro I in 1822. |
| | Various events, such as the loss of what is now Uruguay to Argentina in the war of 1825–28, and his promise to Great Britain to abolish slavery, led to a decline in Pedro's popularity, and in 1831 he was compelled to abdicate. |
| | After a nine-year regency his young son came to the throne in 1840 as Pedro II. |
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