title: 1826 in Brazil
text: # 1826 in Brazil
  
  Events in the year 1826 in Brazil.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Pedro I
  
  ## Events
  
  ### May
  
  * May 2: D. Pedro I abdicates the Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter Dona Maria II.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 10 January: Francisco Paulo de Almeida, banker
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 11 December: Maria Leopoldina of Austria, first Empress of Brazil
  