For José Murilo de Carvalho,[1] the Progressive Party, as an organized and conciliatory political group, dominated the political scene between 1862-1868. The league appeared in 1862 and the consequent Progressive Party, two years later, in 1864, remaining active until 1868, when then, with the fall of its greater representative, Zacarias de Góis and Vasconcelos, ended up dissolving. Part of its members formed the Liberal Party and another party would join the newly founded (in 1873) Republican Party.