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The Portuguese Crown Regarding Brazil (1494 - 1822)

By lsmith1
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
    Sep 5, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    Papal brokered deal dividing up the New World between Spain and Portugal, allotted basically what we now know as Brazil to Portugal.
  • Sousa Cleans Up
    Sep 28, 1532

    Sousa Cleans Up

    Joao III dispatches Martim Afonso de Sousa to clear the meddling French and Dutch out of Brazil and establish order. 15 captaincies are established 09/28/1532, effectively an ongoing process of dividing massive Brazil into states.
  • Aug 29, 1534

    Brazil Divided Up Into 13 Territories

  • Dutch Leave Brazil

    Dutch Leave Brazil

    New Holland in Brazil ends as the last Dutch leave the final holdout of Recife on 01/28/1654. There is later reparation payments from Portugual to the Netherlands for the financial loss.

  • Order To Stop Mining In 3 Areas To Assess Military Defense Assessment

  • Passports Required For Brazil, Clergy Banned

  • Restrictions Lifted On Slave Trade

  • Crown Declares War On Tupinamba

  • Denies Requests For New Mines at Itabaiana, Castelo

  • 2nd High Court of Appeals Opens in Rio

  • Royal Designation of 'Mining Areas'

  • Reevaluates salaries of judicial officers

  • Viceregal Capital Moved From Salvador to Rio de Janeiro

  • Crown Flees Lisbon

    Crown Flees Lisbon

    High tailing it out of town ahead of Napoleon's invasion days later, the Royal Court leaves Portugal and establishes itself in Brazil for over a decade. Unprecedented that a monarch would leave to reside in a colony along with (next slide -----> )
  • The Empire of Brazil

    The Empire of Brazil

    Dom Pedro I is crowned emperor in a uniquely bloodless transition from colony to independent kingdom.