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1500

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Explorer Pedro Alvarez Crabal lands in brazil and claims it for Portugal (April 1500)

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1530 An expedition led by Martim Afonso de Sousa

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1530 An expedition led by Martim Afonso de Sousa

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He arrived in Brazil to patrol the entire coast, ban the French and create the first colonial villages Sap Vicente on the coast This marks the first Portuguese settlements in Brazil

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Tome de Sousa sailed to Brazil to establish a central government. De Sousa brought along Jesuits, who set up missions, saved many natives from slavery, studied native languages, and converted many natives to Roman Catholicism.

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Mid 1500 The first sugar cane farms were established

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Mid 1500 The first sugar cane farms were established

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At first, the Portuguese tried to enslave the native population. After a while they gave up and began to import slaves from Africa. While slavery has ended, Brazil is still the largest sugar cane producer in the world today.

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1555 French forces occupy Rio de Janeiro harbor 

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1555 French forces occupy Rio de Janeiro harbor 

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two years later, Portugal regains control and establishes the city of Rio de Janeiro

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Starting in the late 1500's, the Dutch began some commercial sugar production in the Brazilian Northeast. From 1630-1654 they set up permanently in Recife and controlled large stretches of Brazil. After several years of war with Portuguese the Dutch withdrew.

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1695 Gold is discovered in Brazils interior

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1695 Gold is discovered in Brazils interior

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WAAAHOOOO!!!!!

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1700

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1705 Portugal gives up Colonia de Sacramento

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1705 Portugal gives up Colonia de Sacramento

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Portugal gives up Colonia de Sacramento in the Treaty of Utrecht (aka Spanish Succession)

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Coffee is introduced to Brazil. This wouldn't change much at first, but 100 years later, it would have a HUGE impact.

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John VI flees to Brazil with his family including his son Pedro.

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The Minas Conspiracy was a group inspired by the U.S. Revolution. These Brazilians wanted to become independent of Portugal. Sadly they failed.

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1815 brazil becomes part of the Portuguese kingdom

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1815 brazil becomes part of the Portuguese kingdom

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Brazil becomes part of the Portuguese kingdom called: the united kingdom of Portugal, brazil and the Algarves

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1822 Pedro I declares Brazil  Independent from Portugal

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1822 Pedro I declares Brazil  Independent from Portugal

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Pedro I declares Brazil  Independent from Portugal. Pedro refused to obey the Cortes. He said: “Tell the people that I am staying.”

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1824-Pedro the First writes First Brazilian Constitution

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1824-Pedro the First writes First Brazilian Constitution

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Pedro the First writes First Brazilian Constitution

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1841 - Coronation of Pedro ll, son of Pedro l

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1841 - Coronation of Pedro ll, son of Pedro l

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Coronation of Pedro ll, son of Pedro l. He was 6.

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1850

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1865-1870 South America’s War of the Triple Alliance saw Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay aligned against Paraguay. 

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1865-1870 South America’s War of the Triple Alliance saw Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay aligned against Paraguay. 

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•1865-1870 South America’s War of the Triple Alliance saw Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay aligned against Paraguay.

The Triple Alliance believed Paraguay was undermining the region’s political stability. The war ended in crushing defeat of Paraguay with as much as 90% of its adult male population killed!

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1865-1875  some southerners moved to Brazil

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1865-1875  some southerners moved to Brazil

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1865-1875 After the American Civil War some southerners moved to Brazil where the government offered land grants and slavery was still permitted.

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1888 May 13th Slavery was abolished in Brazil.

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1888 May 13th Slavery was abolished in Brazil.

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1888 May 13th Slavery was abolished in Brazil. Some 4 million slaves had been imported, the most of any nation in the western hemisphere.

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1889 Nov 15th, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Emperor Dom Pedro II was overthrown and military officers established a Republic.

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1931 Oct 12th, the Rio de Janeiro 98-foot statue of Christ the Redeemer was unveiled atop Corcovado Mountain as a belated monument to 100 years of independence from Portugal (1822).  It was designed by Brazilian artist Carlos Oswald and French sculptor Paul Landowski.

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1932 Brazilian women won the right to vote

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1932 Brazilian women won the right to vote

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1932 Brazilian women won the right to vote! Women had long been without many rights, until lawyer Berta Lutz organized educated women to campaign for suffrage.

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1942 Aug 22nd, Brazil declared war on the Axis powers. 

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1942 Aug 22nd, Brazil declared war on the Axis powers. 

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1942 Aug 22nd, Brazil declared war on the Axis powers. They were the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe.

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1950

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Vargas is deposed by the military in a surprise coup.

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1950 Vargas is democratically elected as president

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1950 Vargas is democratically elected as president

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Vargas announces a plan to industrialize the nation and nationalize the countries natural resources.

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He declared that he would "only leave the Presidential Palace dead." He realized a military coup was coming and that is would be bad - so he denounced the opposition and put himself in permeant timeout. Basically he killed himself.

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1960 - rio de janeiro becomes the capital

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1960 - rio de janeiro becomes the capital

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in order to centralize the power and not favor a region, the capital is moved to Brasillia in 1960

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there was a slow move to liberal democracy, but in 1964, the military finally pulled of their coup. It started the era of military dictatorship.

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in 1985, civilian government was restored. This was the beginning of the new republic.

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The first elections for president by direct popular vote since the military coup was held. Currently six presidential terms have taken place since then.

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In 2010, the Dilma Rouseff was elected, the first woman in Brazilian history to become a president.

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