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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 understood as the sighting of the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, by the fleet commanded by Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, on 22 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chagas disease, pathogen, vector, host, clinical manifestations and epidemiology discovery, by Carlos Chagas; Epidemic typhus, pathogen discovery, by Henrique da Rocha Lima; Schistosomiasis, disease cycle discovery, by Pirajá da Silva
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]
In 1501 Coelho was sent on an expedition to follow up on Pedro Álvares Cabral's discovery of Brazil. On 10 May, he sailed from Lisbon as "Captain General" of three caravels. Among his crew was a Florentine resident in Seville, Amerigo Vespucci. On 17 August his expedition made landfall off the Brazilian coast at about 5° S.
Many historians have debated on the authenticity of this discovery; some have reason to believe that Portugal had prior knowledge of Brazil's existence. [1] Pero Vaz de Caminha was the secretary of this fleet; he had been appointed to be the administrator of a trading post to be created in Calicut.
The Brazilian Gold Rush was a gold rush that started in the 1690s, in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil in the Portuguese Empire.The gold rush opened up the major gold-producing area of Ouro Preto (Portuguese for black gold), then known as Vila Rica. [1]