The Council of State of the Empire of Brazil, presided over by Pedro II, came down on the side of the Freemasons and against the church.
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The imposition of the metric system led to demonstrations in the northeast in 1874 with metric weights and measures destroyed by peasants, and land and tax records burned.
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It led to the imprisonment of two bishops and contributed to the downfall of the government of José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco.
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