EVENT INFORMATION

29
Yanüari
1852

The government suspends contested census and civil registration rules

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📅 29 Yanüari 1852 📍 Brazil

On 29 January 1852, Decree no. 907 suspended the 1851 census and civil-registration regulations amid intense popular resistance. The protest, often called the Ronco da Abelha in some regions, was not a single event with one universally agreed start date; opposition spread across communities in late 1851 and early 1852. People feared that enumeration and birth registration could be used to conscript them, tax them, or classify free people as enslaved. The suspension reveals that ordinary people could disrupt imperial administration and defend local autonomy.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

free and enslaved residents

Protesters

local officials

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Imperial government

provincial authorities