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Maria de Assunçao de Bragança

12 Mar 1831 – 9 Jul 1897

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Facts and their sources

  • Born12 Mar 1831not verified1 source
  • Died9 Jul 1897not verified1 source
  • FatherMiguel I of Portugalnot verified1 source

A life in time

  1. 12 Mar 1831

    Born

  2. 9 Jul 1897

    Dies, aged 66

During her lifetime

She lived through 7 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like.

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

The 1830s · Maria is born

Around the world1832

Cholera spreads around the world

A cholera pandemic from India reached Europe and the Americas; cities learned the hard way about clean water and sewers.

Photography is born. The daguerreotype was presented in Paris: for the first time a face or a street could be kept exactly as it looked.Around the world · 1839

Photography is born. The daguerreotype was presented in Paris: for the first time a face or a street could be kept exactly as it looked.

Unknown · public domain

Around the world1825–1830

The first passenger railway

In England a steam locomotive pulled the first public train in 1825; within decades railways crossed every continent.