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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 credited to Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, who sighted the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, on 22 April 1500 while leading an ...
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 ...
Brazilian jiu-jitsu martial art and combat sport created in the 1920s. Vanishing spray a substance applied to an association football pitch in order to provide a temporary visual marker, was created by Brazilian inventor Heine Allemagne. Participatory budgeting (PB) first developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil as 1986.
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 ...
SAO JOAO DO POLESINE, Brazil (Reuters) -Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million ...
1500—Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil on his way to India. 1500—Gaspar Corte-Real made his first voyage to Newfoundland, formerly known as Terras Corte-Real. [citation needed] 1500—Diogo Dias discovered an island they named after St Lawrence after the saint on whose feast day they had first sighted the island later known as Madagascar.
The Tupi oil field (reverted from Lula oil field) is a large oil field located in the Santos Basin, 250 kilometres (160 mi) off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] The field was originally nicknamed in honor of the Tupi people and later named after the mollusc, however it was also ambiguously similar to the name of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Eventually, the Brazilian Gold Rush created the world's longest gold rush period and the largest gold mines in South America. The rush began when bandeirantes discovered large gold deposits in the mountains of Minas Gerais. [2] The bandeirantes were adventurers who organized themselves into small groups to explore the interior of Brazil.