Historical Facts

Chapel of Ours Lady of the Carmo

According to architect and composer Fausto Nile, the chapel of Ours Lady of the Carmo, is a rarity in terms of Brazilian chapels, of time that the circular plant has form. A wooden circumference exists in the center of its covering, that functions with the wedge principle, giving to it a self-sustainment and is over by a masonry vault. The gates are in form of full arc, while the sidewalk it is constituted of thick tablets of rock on which if it finds a resistant grid of iron, that gives protection the ermida one. One is about complicated engineering, arriving to be an exception in the history of the architecture of Brazil.

Revolutionary movements nationwide

Independence of Brazil - the village of Bigger Field, as one of most important of the flag-ship of the Ceará Big, participated directly or indirectly of almost all the politicosocial movements of Brazil, did not only participate of the revolutionary Movement of 1817, headed for Pernambuco, therefore it did not receive, in the which had time, the necessary information. In 3 of June of 1822 the decree of invocation of a Constituent general meeting is lowered, Quixeramobim gives its bracket to this civic and patriotic cause. The participation of the Quixeramobinenses was enthusiastic, either with the spreading of the freedom ideas, by means of conscription for the local and provinceal forces, or with victuals for the suppliment of these forces. It was feared reaction of Portugal against the measures taken for the prince Regent D. Peter I, in view of whom these in would take them, undoubtedly, to the dismemberment of Portugal, what it happened in day 7 of September of 1822.
Abdication of D. Pedro I - With the declaration: " I am ready to make everything for the people, however, nothing for the people ", D. Pedro I, in 7 of April of 1831, abdicated the throne in favor of its son D. Peter II. The population still kept with great constaint and unmeasurable repudiation the acts of repression to the 1824 movement. Not only for the brutal way as the republican idea was restrained, but also for having been enrolled the that one enters prohibit that it are leader greater of the movement in the village, Pe. Mororó. The ideals, contained for the force oppressor of the first emperor, arise and urbe impetuously "sertaneja" if it fulls of engalana joy and if to celebrate so august event.
Announcement of the Republic - Quixeramobim, that always was involved in the events politicians of the Country, could not leave to rejoice itself with the announcement of the Republic. In 1889 enlist Quixeramobim if to celebrate the fall, not of D. Pedro II, but of the proper imperial regimen and the implantation of the Republic, so dreamed in 1824.
Second World War I - In the city, diverse manifestations had been verified want to pressure the Brazilian government to declare war to the countries of the axle, want during the conflict, still, in the end of the litigation. The first one of these manifestations occurred when of the sinking of Brazilian merchant ships for germanic submarines, what it took president Getúlio Vargas to declare war to the nazistas. The manifestations until organized here ahead do not represent nothing of the carried through one in day 08 of May of 1945, " DAY Of the VICTORY ". Plus a walk it was promoted. As excessively, it left of the first church, covered the streets of the city under repicar of the bells of the churches and the House of the Chamber. When to ring a bells they had joined the racket of the horns of the carriages and of the whistle of the locomotives of the RVC. Before leaving, she was displayed solemnly, with the jubilant spirit, in the top of the frontispiece of the array, the Brazilian flag, under the sound of the national hymn, that the multitude, in unisonous voice, sing.

Design Cel. João Paolino: Transference of the capital of the State

The Colonel João Paolino de Barros Leal, public former-promoter of Quixeramobim, when of its pass for the State legislature of the state, in the quality of representative member of the house of representatives of this city, he presented a design that would transfer the capital of the state of $fortaleza to quixeramobim, its native land. Quixeramobim could offer better conditions to the administrator to less provide the progress of the State, given to be more or equidistant of the too much cities, over all in a period where the medias were precarious. It is standed out that the plugging with the ortaleza port would be made through the Railroad of baturité, whose prolongation if found in progress, and that in briefing it would reach the city.