1836 in Brazil

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Events in the year 1836 in Brazil .

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dragoon</span> Type of mounted soldiers

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat with swords and firearms from horseback. While their use goes back to the late 16th century, dragoon regiments were established in most European armies during the 17th and early 18th centuries; they provided greater mobility than regular infantry but were far less expensive than cavalry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1830s</span> Decade

The 1830s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1830, and ended on December 31, 1839.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ethan Allen Brown</span> American judge

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ragamuffin War</span> 1835–45 Republican uprising in southern Brazil

The Ragamuffin War or Ragamuffin Revolution was a Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835. The rebels were led by generals Bento Gonçalves da Silva and Antônio de Sousa Neto with the support of the Italian fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi. The war ended with an agreement between the two sides known as Green Poncho Treaty in 1845.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peru–Bolivian Confederation</span> State in western South America from 1836 to 1839

The Peru–Bolivian Confederation was a short-lived state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839. The country was a loose confederation made up of three states: North Peru and South Peru—states that arose from the division of the Peruvian Republic due to the civil wars of 1834 and 1835 to 1836—as well as the Bolivian State.

The Tabom or Agudas are the Afro-Brazilian community in the south of Ghana who are mostly of Yoruba descent. The Tabom People are an Afro-Brazilian community of former slave returnees. When they arrived in Jamestown, Accra they could speak only Portuguese, and would conspicuously use the phrase "Tá bom" ("Okay"), so the Ga-Adangbe people, who primarily inhabited the Jamestown neighborhood in Accra, started to call them the Tabom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaia</span>

Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaia, was a Brazilian poet, playwright, physician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in Brazilian literature, and was a pioneer of the Brazilian theatre.

<i>Micrathena</i> Genus of spiders

Micrathena, known as spiny orbweavers, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. Micrathena contains more than a hundred species, most of them Neotropical woodland-dwelling species. The name is derived from the Greek "micro", meaning "small", and the goddess Athena.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brazilian tuco-tuco</span> Species of rodent

The Brazilian tuco-tuco is a tuco-tuco species. It is found mainly in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, though Charles Darwin mentions it during his trip through present-day Uruguay.

<i>Rhizoprionodon</i> Genus of sharks

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Uruguayan Civil War</span> 1839-51 armed conflict in Uruguay between the Colorado and Blanco factions

The Uruguayan Civil War, also known in Spanish as the Guerra Grande, was a series of armed conflicts between the leaders of Uruguayan independence. While officially the war lasted from 1839 until 1851, it was a part of armed conflicts that started in 1832 and continued until the final military defeat of the Blancos faction in 1904.

George H. Proffit was an American lawyer who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1839 to 1843.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Piratini</span> Municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cabanagem</span> 1835–1840 separatist movement in Brazil

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<i>Melipona</i> Genus of bees

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George Gardner was a Scottish biologist mainly interested in botany.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1896 in Brazil</span> Brazil-related events during 1896

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