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Historical review of José Silva Santisteban 1. First Constitution of 1823 As soon as the Independence of Peru was proclaimed, a Constituent Congress was installed in Lima with great pomp and solemnity, on September 20, 1822, convoked by General San Martín and made up of proprietary deputies elected
Education in Brazil begins with the arrival of the Portuguese, when priests assumed the role of catechists and teachers of the Indians. Thus, history has its beginning marked by the relationship established between religion and literacy, until the Jesuits were expelled from the country in 1759. On
Marshal Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duque de Caxias , was born on August 25, 1803, in Porto Estrela, Rio de Janeiro and died on May 7, 1880, in Valença (RJ). Career military, he acted in practically all the conflicts that happened in Brazil in the 19th century. He participated in the wars of indepe
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