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Hundreds of thousands of people all over Brazil protest against corruption and denounce the government of President Dilma Rousseff. [309] 9 June: A bus plunges over a ravine in Brazil's São Paulo state, resulting in at least 18 people killed and 28 injured. [310] 5–21 August: The 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro. [311] 31 August
In 1815, this resulted in Brazil being declared a co-kingdom with Portugal, raising it from its former colonial status. [12] This was an embodiment of Brazil's growing independence from Portugal, which intensified after the royal family's return to Europe in 1821. [10] [12]
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 Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Though the movement coincided with the Spanish and Italian Renaissances, the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was extremely important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European ...
Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...
The Renaissance (UK: / r ... After joining the Portuguese exploration of Brazil in 1500, Amerigo Vespucci coined the term New World, [144] ...
The last Portuguese soldiers left Brazil in 1824. The Treaty of Rio de Janeiro recognizing Brazil's independence was signed by Brazil and Portugal on 29 August 1825. The Brazilian aristocracy had its wish: Brazil made a transition to independence with comparatively little disruption and bloodshed.
Attack of French Villegagnon island by the Portuguese on 15 March 1560. The acclamation ceremony of King John VI of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 6 February 1818 Port of the Mineiros in Rio de Janeiro View of Rio de Janeiro from the church of the monastery of São Bento c. 1820