State of Brazil

State of Brazil
Estado do Brasil
1549–1815
Coat of arms of State of Brazil
Coat of arms
The State of Brazil in 1815
The State of Brazil in 1815
StatusState of the Portuguese Empire
CapitalSalvador (1645–1763)
Rio de Janeiro (1763–1815)
Common languagesPortuguese
Religion
Roman Catholicism
GovernmentAbsolute monarchy
Monarch 
• 1521–1557
John III (first)
• 1777–1816
Maria I (last)
Governor General/Viceroy 
• 1549–1553
Tomé de Sousa (first)
• 1806–1808
Count of Arcos (last)
History 
• End of hereditary captaincies
1549
• Transference of the capital to Rio de Janeiro
1763
1792
22 January 1808
• Elevation of Brazil to Kingdom
16 December 1815
CurrencyPortuguese Real
ISO 3166 codeBR
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Governorate General of Brazil
State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro
State of Maranhão and Piauí
1654:
Dutch Brazil
1630:
Dutch Brazil
1815:
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves
Kingdom of Brazil

The State of Brazil (Portuguese: Estado do Brasil) was one of the states of the Portuguese Empire, in the Americas during the period of Colonial Brazil.