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Explorer Pedro Cabral lands in Brazil and claims it for Portugal. -
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Bans the French and creates the first Portuguese settlements in Brazil. -
Portugal establishes the very first sugarcane farms and tries to enslave the native people. Later they enslave Africans to work on the farms.
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Brings along Jesuits who set up missions and convert native people to Roman Catholicism. -
Two years later, Portugal regains control and establishes the city of Rio de Janeiro. -
After several years of war with Portugal, the Dutch withdraw. -
It was a big deal -
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Portugal gives up on the colonia do Sacramento. -
Brazil gets hands on coffee for the first time -
The minas conspiracy was a group inspired by the U.S. revolution. And the people from Brazil wanted to become more independent than Portugal but failed. -
John VI flees to Brazil with his family including his son Pedro. -
Brazil becomes one of the Portugal kingdom. -
Pedro refused to obey the cortes and said "tell the people that I am staying" -
In 1824 Pedro the first writes the first brazil constitution. -
Pedro I gives the throne to his son (aka) Pedro II -
In 1850 most of Brazil finally stopped slavery -
marked by the Paraguayan War (1864-1870), which devastated Paraguay but cemented Brazil's regional power under Emperor Dom Pedro II -
Brazil was a monarchy on the verge of major change, characterized by increasing European immigration, a growing coffee economy, and mounting discontent within the military and political circles that would lead to the monarchy's downfall just nine years later -
Brazil was in the early years of its First Republic (1889-1930), a period characterized by a federal government dominated by powerful states like São Paulo and Minas Gerais, an era often described as "milk-coffee politics" due to the influence of coffee and dairy producers -
Brazil was marked by social unrest and political tension under the First Republic, leading to the rise of labor movements and rebellions by young military officers known as Tenentes. -
Brazil experienced a major political shift with the return of Getúlio Vargas as president after his 1945 overthrow.