Meanwhile, on September 30, 1821, the Cortes approved a decree that subordinated the governments of the Brazilian provinces directly to Portugal.

He was welcomed warmly in both Brazilian provinces, and the visits reinforced his authority.

As the Brazilian provinces became more assertive, São Paulo was the scene of a minor (and unsuccessful) liberal revolution in 1842.

In the mid-1920s, the Brazilian provinces suffer under the political, social, and economic dominance of the cacao plantation owners - the "coroneis".

The package, which contained soil from every Brazilian province, was duly placed inside the coffin.

He escorted the Emperor during his tour of the Brazilian southern provinces.

Paraguay captured the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso, but it was a pyrrhic victory, since the attackers obtained little gain in it.

Brazilian provinces (some had Governors from the start):

Then, at the end of 1825 a secessionist rebellion began in Cisplatina, the southernmost Brazilian province.

A former Spanish colony, the United Provinces of South America (later Argentina) formally annexed the Brazilian province.