
Independence:
As in 1822, IV after the return of the Portuguese royal family to Portugal, Brazil, under the Prince Dom Pedro declared an independent Empire, retained Rio de Janeiro as the capital of the state in which the prince was residing as Emperor Dom Pedro I.. Due to succession disputes in Portugal and domestic problems in Brazil, he abdicated in 1831 and left his young son. This climbed as Dom Pedro II in 1840 the throne. He initiated inter alia opened in the building of a railway, the first Abschnitt1858 in Rio de Janeiro.
Even as Brazil was in 1889 after a military coup with the Republic of Rio de Janeiro was the capital. In the first half of the 20th Rio de Janeiro century experienced a flowering of society, as the city of movie stars and the international high society to the point of contact was. This period also saw the emergence of Brazilian Jazz Bossa Nova by songs such as Garota de Ipanema / The Girl from Ipanema, sung by Antonio Carlos Jobim, was weltbrühmt.
With the advent of mass tourism in the second half of the 20th Century in particular has changed the image of the beach near neighborhoods strong, which is now dominated by many hotels, while the more distant from the sea neighborhoods were dominated by the growing slums.
Rio de Janeiro until 1960 will lose its status as capital to the newly built city under Juscelino Kubitschek Brasilia. Simultaneously, the city of Rio de Janeiro to independent city-state of Guanabara, the 1975 is merged with the State of Rio de Janeiro. The city is presented as the capital of the new state.

