1885 in Brazil
1885 in Brazil |
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Year of Constitution: 1824 |
Events in the year 1885 in Brazil.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Emperor Pedro II
- Prime Minister – Manuel Pinto de Sousa Dantas (until 6 May), José Antônio Saraiva (from 6 May to 20 August), Baron of Cotegipe (starting 20 August)
Events
- September 28 - Sexagenarian Law, or Saraiva-Cotegipe Law, which frees slaves over the age of 60.
Births
Deaths
gollark: It might make sense to have home lighting use lower-voltage DC instead of mains AC now, and have a big converter somewhere, to avoid every bulb having to contain expensive and in some cases unreliable and flickery conversion electronics.
gollark: https://hackaday.com/2020/02/16/have-led-bulbs-reached-their-final-and-cheapest-form/
gollark: I've read that they got the cost down by making the power supplies... perhaps excessively simple.
gollark: Incandescent lightbulbs... are still legal basically everywhere as far as I know?
gollark: Proof of their drone nature.
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