On This Date in Brazil: Revolução Pernambucana

This year, Rio is celebrating the bicentennial of the Portuguese court's arrival to Brazil upon fleeing from Napoleon. This is a huge to-do in Rio both historically and in terms of commemmoration this year. However, not everybody in Brazil loved the arrival of the Portuguese court, and frequent commentor Venha Futuro has a great post up about the Revolução Pernambucano (Pernambucan Revolution), which began on this date in 1817. It is concise yet excellently summarized, and does a great job of explaining why not everybody (particularly in the Northeast) appreciated the arrival of the court in Rio, and it is well worth checking out.