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Opening ceremony of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at which Brazil competes for the first time. [173] Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense is the first Brazilian to win a gold medal. 1921: October: The government implements a new policy in defense of coffee, for the third time in the history of the Republic. [174] 1922: 11–18 February
At the time of European discovery, the territory of modern-day Brazil had as many as 2,000 tribes. ... The History of Brazil (Greenwood Histories of the Modern ...
This time zone is used in the states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, and most of Amazonas.Although this time zone covers about 36% of the land area of Brazil (an area larger than Argentina), only about 6% of the country's population live there (about 12 million people, slightly more than the city of São Paulo). [2]
This is a list of years in Brazil. See also the timeline of Brazilian history . For only articles about years in Brazil that have been written, see Category:Years in Brazil .
Brazil observed daylight saving time (DST) (called horário de verão – "summer time" – in Portuguese) in the years of 1931–1933, 1949–1953, 1963–1968 and 1985–2019. Initially it applied to the whole country, but from 1988 it applied only to part of the country, usually the southern regions, where DST is more useful due to a larger ...
Brazil's 1877–78 Grande Seca (Great Drought), the worst in Brazil's history, [186] caused approximately half a million deaths. [187] A similarly devastating drought occurred in 1915. [ 188 ] In 2024, for the first time, "a drought has covered all the way from the North to the country’s Southeast".
As time progressed, ... the Jesuits represented the spiritual side of the enterprise and were destined to play a central role in the colonial history of Brazil. The ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) -A majority on Brazil's Supreme Court overwhelmingly voted on Thursday against a cut-off date limiting Indigenous land claims, a restriction sought by the powerful farm lobby to ...