The Portuguese prince <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_I_of_Brazil" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pedro I of Brazil">Pedro I of Brazil</a> decides to stay in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" id="mwig" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> against the orders of the Portuguese King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_VI_of_Portugal" id="mwiw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John VI of Portugal">João VI</a>, beginning the Brazilian independence process.<sup about="#mwt94" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_9#cite_note-16" id="mwjA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwjQ">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt91" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJoaquim_Manuel_de_Macedo1873">Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1873). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KCEuAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA21" id="mwCD8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCEA">Notions on the Chorography of Brazil</i></a>. F. A. Brockhaus. p.<span id="mwCEE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>21.</cite><span about="#mwt91" class="Z3988" id="mwCEI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Notions+on+the+Chorography+of+Brazil&amp;rft.pages=21&amp;rft.pub=F.+A.+Brockhaus&amp;rft.date=1873&amp;rft.au=Joaquim+Manuel+de+Macedo&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DKCEuAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA21&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+9"></span></span>