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This expedition alone was responsible for the destruction of most of the Jesuit missions of Spanish Guayrá and the enslavement of over 60,000 indigenous people. Between 1648 and 1652, Tavares also led one of the longest known expeditions from São Paulo to the mouth of the Amazon river, investigating many of its tributaries, including the Rio ...
Royal Government in Colonial Brazil with Special Reference to the Administration of the Marquis of Lavradio, Viceroy 1769–1779. 1968. Bethell, Leslie, ed. Colonial Brazil. 1987. Boxer, C. R. Salvador de Sá and the struggle for Brazil and Angola, 1602–1686. [London] University of London, 1952. Boxer, C. R. The Dutch in Brazil, 1624–1654 ...
Brazil breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany. 7 May: Foreign Minister Lauro Müller is obliged to resign because of his German origins. May–November: Several Brazilian vessels are torpedoed by the Germans. [169] 26 October: World War I: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers. [170] 1 November
Schneider, Ronald M. "Order and Progress": A Political History of Brazil (1991) Schwartz, Stuart B. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia 1550–1835. New York: Cambridge University Press 1985. Schwartz, Stuart B. Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court and its Judges 1609–1751. Berkeley and Los ...
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 ...
Led by the English admiral James Lancaster, it was the only British expedition whose main target was Brazil. It represented the richest heist in the history of shipping in the Elizabethan era. [6] The Iberian Union placed Brazil in conflict with European nations that were friendly to Portugal but enemies of Spain, such as England and the ...
An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...
Zumbi (c. 1655 – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (Portuguese pronunciation: [zũˈbi dus pɐwˈmaɾis]), was a Brazilian quilombola leader and one of the pioneers of resistance to enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil.