Brazilian History Timeline

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Beginnings

Discovery and European beginnings in the new world

Modern Brazil

The Road to where we are today

Independence

Brazil becomes its own country

Colonization

Portuguese establishment in Brazil

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20th/21st Century

19th Century

17th/18th Century

15th/16th Century

Five hundred years of history and culture, with selected authors to gain an insight into the perspectives during their own time.

Brazilian History Timeline

Summary of Time Period

First African Slaves arrive in Brazil

The Iberian Union Begins

Hans Staden - "A True History..."

Tome de Sousa becomes first Governor General

Beginning of Brazil Wood Harvest

First Sugar Cane Mill in Brazil

Captancies Established

Martim Afonso de Sousa's Expeditions

São Salvador da Bahia founded

Brazil officially discovered

The Voyage of Vincente Yañez Pinzon

The Treaty of Tordesillas

The Voyage of Christopher Columbus

The Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci

17th18th Century

Brazil History | 15th/16th Century

Summary of Time Period

Inconfidencia Mineira

Treaty of The Hague

Brazil History | 17th/18th Century

19th Century

Tiradentes is Captured and executed

The American Revolution

Quilombo dos Palmares is destoryed

Gold is discovered

Dutch West India Company invades Bahia

António Vieira: Sermons for Brazil

Zumbi is captured and executed

Machado De Assis:The Greatest Brazilian Writer

Summary of Time Period

Law of Free Birth

Slavery Abolished/ Golden Law

Royal Family return to Portugal

Brazil History | 19th Century

20th Century

Brazil Becomes a Republic

Castro Alves: O Poeta do Escravos

Brazil gains independence

Brazil made into Constituent Kingdom

Royal Family and Court Move to Brazil

Napoleonic Wars start

Dom Pedro I of Brazil crowned

Summary of Time Period

Diretas Ja

Cálice (Cale-se) - Chico Buarque e Gilberto Gil

First National Development Plan

Fifth Institutional Act

Vargas Administration ends

Brazil Revolution of 1930

Brazil History | 20th Century

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Vargas returns

Brazil joins WWII

Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932

Brazil joins WWI

World War I starts

Start of World War II

Summary of Time Period

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Elected

Military Coup D'etat

Fifth Institutional Act

Brazil joins WWII

Dilma Rouseff: First Female President

Diretas Ja

First National Development Plan

Vargas Administration ends

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist

Brasilia Made Capital City

Vargas Returns

End of Institutional Act 5

Cálice (Cale-se) - Chico Buarque e Gilberto Gil

Start of World War II

Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932

Brazil joins WWI

World War 1 Starts

Brazil Revolution of 1930

Home Page

Brazil History | 20th Century