His father and his uncles, Joséde Brito Alves and Caetano Galhardo, were militant criminal lawyers, which was why Demócrito became familiar with the meaning of the words right, justice, freedom, habeas corpus and the constitution from early on.

Latin America’s oldest newspaper still in circulation, the Diario de Pernambuco (Pernambuco Daily) was founded on 7 November 1825, by the printer Antonino José de Miranda Falcão, in Recife.

Duarte Coelho Pereira, the first to be granted with the captaincy of Pernambuco, is a fairly mysterious figure. Few things were ever written about him.

Despite the controversies about the place of birth of the Indian Antonio Felipe Camarão, it is established that he was born in Pernambuco, in 1600 or 1601.

The archipelago was discovered in 1503 by the Américo Vespúcio armada, commanded by Gonçalo Coelho, which had one of its ships wrecked during an exploratory expedition of the Brazilian coaston 10 August of that year.