Pedro II., emperor of Brazil, son of preceding, ascended the throne in 1831; reigned peacefully till 1889, when a sudden revolution obliged him to resign, and retire to Europe and take up his abode in France, where he indulged his taste for science and learning (1825‒1891).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pedro I. * Peebles, Peter