Brazilian History Timeline

Brazilian History Timeline

Five hundred years of history and culture, with selected authors to gain an insight into the perspectives during their own time.

Modern Brazil

Colonization

19th Century

15th/16th Century

The Road to where we are today

Portuguese establishment in Brazil

Bibliography

20th/21st Century

17th/18th Century

Independence

Beginnings

Brazil becomes its own country

Discovery and European beginnings in the new world

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The Voyage of Christopher Columbus

The Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci

The Voyage of Vincente Yañez Pinzon

The Treaty of Tordesillas

Martim Afonso de Sousa's Expeditions

Beginning of Brazil Wood Harvest

Brazil officially discovered

First Sugar Cane Mill in Brazil

Brazil History | 15th/16th Century

Summary of Time Period

First African Slaves arrive in Brazil

Tome de Sousa becomes first Governor General

Captancies Established

The Iberian Union Begins

São Salvador da Bahia founded

17th18th Century

Hans Staden - "A True History..."

Brazil History | 17th/18th Century

Summary of Time Period

Dutch West India Company invades Bahia

Treaty of The Hague

Gold is discovered

António Vieira: Sermons for Brazil

Zumbi is captured and executed

The American Revolution

Inconfidencia Mineira

Quilombo dos Palmares is destoryed

Tiradentes is Captured and executed

19th Century

Brazil History | 19th Century

Summary of Time Period

Brazil made into Constituent Kingdom

Royal Family return to Portugal

Royal Family and Court Move to Brazil

Napoleonic Wars start

Castro Alves: O Poeta do Escravos

Dom Pedro I of Brazil crowned

Machado De Assis:The Greatest Brazilian Writer

Brazil gains independence

Slavery Abolished/ Golden Law

Brazil Becomes a Republic

20th Century

Law of Free Birth

Brazil History | 20th Century

Summary of Time Period

Brazil Revolution of 1930

Brazil joins WWI

World War I starts

Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932

Start of World War II

Brazil joins WWII

Vargas Administration ends

Cálice (Cale-se) - Chico Buarque e Gilberto Gil

Fifth Institutional Act

Vargas returns

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First National Development Plan

Diretas Ja

Brazil Revolution of 1930

World War 1 Starts

Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932

Brazil joins WWI

Vargas Administration ends

Vargas Returns

Start of World War II

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist

Brazil joins WWII

Brazil History | 20th Century

Summary of Time Period

Fifth Institutional Act

Cálice (Cale-se) - Chico Buarque e Gilberto Gil

Brasilia Made Capital City

First National Development Plan

Military Coup D'etat

Dilma Rouseff: First Female President

End of Institutional Act 5

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Elected

Diretas Ja