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Brazilian Three time Formula One World Champion, Ayrton Senna is killed in a crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. 1 July: Brazil introduces its new currency, the Real. [257] 17 July: Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy by 3–2 in penalties (full-time 0–0). 1995: 1 January: Fernando Henrique Cardoso becomes President ...
The golden age of Brazil, 1695–1750; growing pains of a colonial society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and the Slaves: A Study of the Development of Brazilian Civilization, translated by Samuel Putnam. revised edition 1963. Hemming, John. Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians. 1978.
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.
Brazil would keep its high standing in exports and general economic growth until the end of the monarchy. [193] Brazilian economic expansion, especially after 1850, compared well with that of the United States and European nations. [194] The national tax revenue amounted to Rs 11.795:000$000 in 1831 and rose to Rs 160.840:000$000 in 1889.
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 ...
A History of Modern Brazil, 1889-1964. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0238-6. E. Bradford Burns (1993). "Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History". A History of Brazil. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07954-9. Robert M. Levine (2003). "Timeline of Historical Events". History of Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan.
Date: 7 September 1822; 202 years ago (): Location: Brazil: Participants: Pedro, Prince Royal Archduchess Maria Leopoldina José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva: Outcome: Independence of the Kingdom of Brazil from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and subsequent formation of the Empire of Brazil under Emperor Dom Pedro I (1798–1834; reigned 1822–1831)
In the 1630s, Brazil provided 80% of the sugar sold in London, while it only provided 10% by 1690. [32] The Portuguese colony of Brazil did not recover economically until the discovery of gold in southern Brazil during the 18th century. [33] The Dutch period in Brazil was "a historical parenthesis with few lasting traces" in the social sphere. [34]