Side by side

Brazil and France compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇧🇷Brazil

7 September 1822Pedro of Braganza declares independence beside the Ipiranga brook

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🇫🇷France

10 August 843The Treaty of Verdun gives Charles the Bald West Francia

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Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1808-1821

    The court moves to Rio

    Fleeing Napoleon, the Portuguese royal court relocates to Rio de Janeiro, which becomes the seat of the empire and is opened to wider trade.

    Politics & Power · from the Brazil chronicle · Portuguese Colony: Sugar, Slavery, and Gold · Brazil, Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil