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The first attempt to colonize Brazil followed the system of hereditary captaincies (Capitanias Hereditárias), which had previously been used successfully in the colonization of Madeira. These captaincies were granted by royal decree to private owners, namely to merchants, soldiers, sailors, and petty nobility, saving the Portuguese crown from ...
The Portuguese establish Recife in Pernambuco, in the Northeast of Brazil. [25] 1539–1542: The first African slaves arrive in Pernambuco. [26] 1549: 29 March: The city of Salvador, Brazil's first capital, is founded by Tomé de Sousa. [27] 1551: Portugal founds a sugar colony at Bahia. 1554: 25 January
Brazil's territorial dimension as a nation was achieved before the independence by the Portuguese-Brazilian monarchy (House of Bragança) in 1822, with later some territorial expansion and disputes with neighbouring Spanish ex-colonies, making Brazil the largest contiguous territory in the Americas today. It is worth noting that before the ...
Brazil Site of first European settlement in Brazil, the feitoria of Igarassu, in 1516. [11] 1535 Olinda: Pernambuco: Brazil One of the best-preserved colonial cities in Brazil. [12] 1535: Vila Velha: Espírito Santo: Brazil: 1535: Paria: Oruro: Bolivia: First Spanish settlement in Bolivia 1536 Santiago de Cali: Valle del Cauca: Colombia 1536 ...
Though the first settlement was founded in 1532, colonization only effectively started in 1534 when King John III divided the territory into fifteen hereditary captaincies. This arrangement proved problematic, however, and in 1549 the king assigned a governor-general to administer the entire colony. The Portuguese assimilated some of the native ...
This territory was subsequently colonized by the Portuguese crown. Since the transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil in 1808, colonial rule had de facto ended. On 16 December 1815, Prince Regent John, the future king John VI, raised Brazil to the status of a kingdom, thus making his mother, Maria I, the reigning queen, the first monarch of ...
The land now known as Brazil was claimed by the Portuguese for the first time on 23 April 1500 when the Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on its coast. Permanent settlement by the Portuguese followed in 1534, and for the next 300 years they slowly expanded into the territory to the west until they had established nearly all of the frontiers which constitute modern Brazil's borders.
The Captaincies of Brazil (Portuguese: Capitanias do Brasil) were captaincies of the Portuguese Empire, [Note 1] administrative divisions and hereditary fiefs of Portugal in the colony of Terra de Santa Cruz, [Note 2] later called Brazil, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern South America.