5 Parallel Timelines for Early Brazilian Social Structures By stults Period: Sep 30, 1450 to Sep 30, 1800 Brazil Colonial Critical Events Oct 1, 1494 Papal Treaty of Tordesillas Jan 1, 1500 Qunito (the Fifth) Enacted Oct 1, 1500 1500 - Brazilian Amerindians make contact with the Portuguese Period: Oct 1, 1500 to Oct 1, 1558 Donatorial System in place Period: Oct 1, 1500 to Oct 1, 1700 Portuguese colonists, not the Crown, explore interior Period: Oct 1, 1500 to Oct 1, 1550 Brazilian Amerindians on coast enslaved or decimated Oct 1, 1522 Epidemics kill 1/2 of all Brazilian Amerindians Oct 1, 1532 Portuguese merchants & colonists set up first permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil Oct 1, 1537 Pope Paul III declares unjust Brazilian Amerindian slavery illegal Oct 1, 1550 Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Brazil Oct 1, 1550 African slaves begin to arrive in Brazil Period: Oct 1, 1550 to Oct 1, 1800 Portuguese merchants & colonists become wealthy off the Triangle Trade Brazilwood, slavery, sugar, gold, rubber also a big part of the Triangle Trade Period: Oct 1, 1560 to Oct 1, 1680 Brazil #1 sugar producing nation in the world Oct 1, 1580 Catholic Inquisition intorduced to Brazil Period: Oct 1, 1580 to Oct 1, 1640 Consolidation of Portuguese and Spanish Crowns Oct 1, 1600 Brazil dependant on African slave labor Oct 1, 1600 Portuguese Crown expands beyond Tordesillas Treaty Period: Oct 1, 1605 to Oct 1, 1694 African slave-runaway society of Quilombos dos Palmores thrives Oct 1, 1654 Brazilian sugar market crashes Oct 1, 1661 Catholic Jesuits attempt to shield Amerindians; colonists revolt Oct 1, 1690 Gold discovered in Brazil; begins Gold Cycle Oct 1, 1690 African slaves driving labor force behind sugar, gold, diamonds Oct 1, 1690 Portuguese merchants & colonists discover gold & diamonds in Minas Gerais Period: Oct 1, 1700 to Oct 1, 1800 African slaves, numbering 1.7 million, arrive in Brazil Oct 1, 1723 Brazilian Amerindian Attack Occured on the Negro River; over 2000 settlers killed. Oct 1, 1759 Jesuits expelled from Brazil Oct 1, 1800 Brazilian Amerindians virtually wiped out