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Jay Kay (born 1969), singer; Portuguese father; João Domingos Bomtempo (1775–1842), composer; Joaquim José Antunes (1725–1790), harpsichord maker; Jorge Palma (born 1950), singer, pianist and songwriter; José Afonso (1929–1987), aka Zeca Afonso, composer, player; Luciana Abreu (born 1985), singer, composer, actress, TV host
The Dutch West India Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil. [44] 1625: 30 April: The Portuguese recapture Salvador from the Dutch, with the help of a combined Spanish and Portuguese force, consisting of 52 ships and 12,500 men. [45] 1630: The Dutch West India Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds ...
Portuguese Brazilians Luso-brasileiros; Total population; 5 million Brazilians (2.5% of the population) have recent Portuguese ancestry (at least one grandparent) and are eligible to obtain Portuguese citizenship. [1] [2] [3] Exact number of Brazilians with Portuguese ancestry unknown due to many having ancestry going back to Portuguese settlers.
This page lists Brazil citizens of Portuguese ancestry or national origin. Note that current day Brazil was a territory of Portugal from the 16th century to the 19th century. Note that current day Brazil was a territory of Portugal from the 16th century to the 19th century.
During the war, João VI of Portugal, the prince regent, transferred his court, including Maria I, to the Portuguese territory of Brazil, and established Rio de Janeiro as the capital of the Portuguese Empire. This episode is known as the Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil. The last French troops were expelled in 1812.
Year Date Event 80 to 72 BC: The Sertorian War takes place, with Quintus Sertorius, a Roman general, rebelling against Rome with the support of the Lusitanians.: 27 BC: Augustus replaces the old Hispania Ulterior and Citerior division with a new one: Lusitania (Centre and South of modern Portugal and some territory of Modern Spain, namely the capital of Lusitania, Mérida), Baetica (only ...
The monarchs of Brazil (Portuguese: monarcas do Brasil) were the imperial heads of state and hereditary rulers of Brazil from the House of Braganza that reigned from the creation of the Brazilian monarchy in 1815 as a constituent kingdom of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves until the republican coup d'état that overthrew the Empire of Brazil in 1889.
The pre-Cabraline history of Brazil is the stage in Brazil's history before the arrival of Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, [1] at a time when the region that is now Brazilian territory was occupied by thousands of indigenous peoples. Traditional prehistory is generally divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic ...