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1500
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1.26.1500
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil. |
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3.9.1500
The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas. |
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4.22.1500
Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.
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1549
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3.29.1549
The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
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1551
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9.8.1551
The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil
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1554
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1.25.1554
Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
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1573
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11.22.1573
The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
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1695
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11.20.1695
Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed.
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1812
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12.29.1812
The USS ''Constitution'' under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.
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1815
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12.5.1815
Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
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1822
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1.9.1822
The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
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9.7.1822
Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga creek in São Paulo. |
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12.1.1822
Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
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1823
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7.2.1823
Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
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1825
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8.25.1825
Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
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8.29.1825
Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
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1827
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3.7.1827
Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. |
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1828
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8.27.1828
Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
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1835
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9.20.1835
Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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1864
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10.7.1864
American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the Ship CSS Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
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10.11.1864
Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
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1886
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3.7.1886
The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil was founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
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1888
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5.13.1888
With the passage of the ''Lei Áurea'' ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
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1889
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11.15.1889
Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
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1897
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12.12.1897
Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
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1908
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3.25.1908
Clube Atletico Mineiro is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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1917
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10.26.1917
World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers. |
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1919
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5.29.1919
Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
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1922
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1926
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1930
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10.24.1930
A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president." |
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11.3.1930
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
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1932
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7.9.1932
The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
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1942
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8.22.1942
World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. |
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1945
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4.2.1945
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established. |
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4.17.1945
Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces. |
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10.29.1945
Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
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1954
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8.24.1954
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho. |
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1960
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4.21.1960
Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro. |
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12.13.1960
While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaim him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor. |
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