5 Parallel Timelines for Early Brazilian Social Structures

By stults
  • Period: Sep 30, 1450 to

    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

    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

    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

    Brazil #1 sugar producing nation in the world

  • Oct 1, 1580

    Catholic Inquisition intorduced to Brazil

  • Period: Oct 1, 1580 to

    Consolidation of Portuguese and Spanish Crowns

  • Brazil dependant on African slave labor

  • Portuguese Crown expands beyond Tordesillas Treaty

  • Period: to

    African slave-runaway society of Quilombos dos Palmores thrives

  • Brazilian sugar market crashes

  • Catholic Jesuits attempt to shield Amerindians; colonists revolt

  • Gold discovered in Brazil; begins Gold Cycle

  • African slaves driving labor force behind sugar, gold, diamonds

  • Portuguese merchants & colonists discover gold & diamonds in Minas Gerais

  • Period: to

    African slaves, numbering 1.7 million, arrive in Brazil

  • Brazilian Amerindian Attack

    Occured on the Negro River; over 2000 settlers killed.

  • Jesuits expelled from Brazil

  • Brazilian Amerindians virtually wiped out

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