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2. Discovery of Brazil - Wikipedia

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   The Landing of Cabral in Porto Seguro; oil on canvas by Oscar Pereira da Silva, 1904.Collection of the National Historical Museum of Brazil. The first arrival of European explorers to the territory of present-day Brazil is often credited to Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, who sighted the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, on 22 April 1500 while leading an ...

3. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil - Wikipedia

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   The book has 22 chapters, with Chapter 1 discussing the motive behind the voyage to Brazil and Chapters 2-5 describing the sights and events that occurred during the voyage to Brazil. Chapters 6-20 consist of Léry describing the land of Brazil, the physical description of the indigenous people, and the behaviors and customs of the indigenous ...

4. History of Brazil - Wikipedia

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   The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), signed between Spain and Portugal to distribute the lands discovered and "to be discovered", defined the course of the history of the "future" Brazil. [ Note 2 ] Still, Africans became a substantial section of the Brazilian population, and long before the end of slavery (1888) they had begun to merge with the ...

5. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

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   In a letter of late 1497 or early 1498, the English merchant John Day wrote to Columbus about Cabot's discoveries, saying that land found by Cabot was "discovered in the past by the men from Bristol who found 'Brasil' as your lordship knows". [140] There may be records of expeditions from Bristol to find the "isle of Brazil" in 1480 and 1481. [141]

6. Pedro Álvares Cabral - Wikipedia

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   Cabral on the 10 Brazilian real polymer banknote issued in 2000, commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the discovery of Brazil. The first permanent Portuguese settlement in the land which would become Brazil was São Vicente, which was established in 1532 by Martim Afonso de Sousa. As the years passed, the Portuguese would slowly expand their ...

7. Jean de Léry - Wikipedia

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   Title page of the Latin translation of de Léry's book, Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America Dicitur (History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America). Jean de Léry (1536–1613) was an explorer, writer and Reformed pastor born in Lamargelle, Côte-d'Or, France. Scholars disagree about whether he was a member of ...

8. Fossil of new reptile species found in Brazil sheds light on ...

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   SAO JOAO DO POLESINE, Brazil (Reuters) -Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million ...

9. List of Brazilian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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   Participatory budgeting (PB) first developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil as 1986. Lua (programming language) created in 1993 by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes from Tecgraf. Elixir (programming language) created in 2012 by José Valim from a research and development project at Plataformatec.