Brazil Independence Day Brazil boasts of many unique attributes, including having had an empire, a reigning monarch and a relatively bloodless independence from Portugal. And rather than having the populace revolt and proclaim independence, it was the king himself who declared in the Grito do Ipiranga, "By my blood, by my honor, and by God: I will make Brazil free†with the motto Independence or Death! On September 7, celebrate Brazil's Independence Day. -about.com Happy Independence Day to all who celebrate.