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19th Century Brazil: Economic Changes

By lsmith1

  • With Brits Protecting Brazil, Mass Middle Class Migration From Portugal

  • Treaty With London Opens Brazilian Ports To Trade

  • 2/3s of Transatlantic Ships Anchored In Rio Are Foreign

  • First Steamship: Bahia de Todos os Santos

  • to 1889, Value of Foreign Trade Increases Six to Seven Times

  • First Coffee Planter Elevated to Nobility (Goncalves de Morais)

  • Bank of Brazil

  • First Railroad

  • First Streetlights

  • First National Telegraph System

  • Central School Opens (Engineers)

  • National Exposition, Brazil A World Economic Power

  • Sir Richard Francis Burton (UK) Surveys Mina Gerais

  • Rio's Population: 600,000

  • Dom Pedro II Dicates Telegram That Reaches Europe

  • Monetary Instability Causes Economic Panic

  • 1st Agricultural School Opens

  • 250.000 Sponsored Immigrants Come To Brazil

  • At Monarchy Fall, Coffee Accounts For 2/3s of Exports

  • On Cusp of Going to Gold Standard, Crown Overthrown

  • Cotton 15% of Exports, From 0.05% in 1840's