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Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
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Martim Afonso de Sousa makes the first villages.
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Tome de Sousa was sent to establish a central goverenment.
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Slaves come to brazil.
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The French try and fail to take Brazil.
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The Dutch pull out of the war.
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Gold was discovered in Brazil.
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1705 – Portugal gives up Colonia del Sacramento in the Treaty of Utrecht (aka Spanish Succession)
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Coffee was introduced to Brazil.
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The Minas Conspiracy fails.
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France invades Portugal.
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Brazil becomes part of the Portuguese Kingdom.
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Pedro l declares Brazil Independent from Portugal.
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Pedro l writes the first Brazilian Constitution.
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South America’s War of the Triple Alliance saw Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay aligned against Paraguay.
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After the American civil war some southerners moved to brazil
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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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Nov 15th, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, emperor dom Pedro ll was overthrown
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Oct 12th, the Rio de Janeiro 98-foot statue of Christ the Redeemer was unveiled atop Corcovado Mountain
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Brazilian women won the right to vote!
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Aug 22nd, Brazil declared war on the Axis powers.
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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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1954 Vargas faces another coup, he chose to end his own life.
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1960 Capital moved to Brasilia, from Rio de Janeiro
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1964, military coup took over Brazil's government
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1985- Civilian government was restored
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2010- Dilma Rousseff elected, the first woman in Brazilian history to become President
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1985-today, Currently six presidential terms have taken place since 1985