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Pedro Henrique de Orléans e Bragança

Boulogne-Billancourt, 13 Sep 1909 – Vassouras, 5 Jul 1981

9 facts3 sources

Facts and their sources

A life in time

  1. 13 Sep 1909

    Born in Boulogne-Billancourt

  2. 1950–1953

    2 children are born

  3. 5 Jul 1981

    Dies in Vassouras, aged 71

Family

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Parents

Partner

Children · 2

During his lifetime

He lived through 9 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Boulogne-Billancourt.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1900s · Pedro is born in Boulogne-Billancourt

Listen

Amor Perdido

Patápio Silva · 1904

The flute of Patápio Silva, recorded at Casa Edison with piano. He died three years later, aged 26.

Public domain recording · Casa Edison · Wikimedia Commons

Who governed

In the news1900

Paris Metro opens in 1900

The first Paris metro line opened on July 14, 1900, allowing travel across the city in half an hour for 20 to 25 centimes.

What people wore

Alsatian folk dress used on political parades

In Alsace, traditional Tracht was tied to religious occasions like weddings and first communions, but it later became common at political rallies; when Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Strasbourg in 1877, women were greeted in Tracht. The text also describes how the costume’s symbolism shifted with politics over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

On the Avenida Central. People strolling on the boulevard Mayor Pereira Passos cut through Rio’s old centre, today Avenida Rio Branco.Meanwhile in Rio

On the Avenida Central. People strolling on the boulevard Mayor Pereira Passos cut through Rio’s old centre, today Avenida Rio Branco.

Instituto Moreira Salles · public domain

In the news1902–1904

Rat-catching program initiated in capital

Oswaldo Cruz launched an infamous rat-catching program in Rio de Janeiro, paying citizens to turn in dead rats to combat plague.

A motor car in Rio. A De Dietrich on Avenida Central in 1908, when a car in the street was still worth a photograph in Fon-Fon.Getting around

A motor car in Rio. A De Dietrich on Avenida Central in 1908, when a car in the street was still worth a photograph in Fon-Fon.

Revista Fon-Fon · Wikimedia Commons · public domain
Powered flight. The Wright brothers flew a powered aeroplane at Kitty Hawk in 1903; in 1906 Santos-Dumont flew the 14-bis in Paris.Around the world · 1903–1906

Powered flight. The Wright brothers flew a powered aeroplane at Kitty Hawk in 1903; in 1906 Santos-Dumont flew the 14-bis in Paris.

Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright (credited as photographers) [1], [2] · public domain