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Colonial Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil Colonial) ... At the end of the 17th century, the bandeirantes' expeditions discovered gold in central Brazil, ...
This expedition alone was responsible for the destruction of most of the Jesuit missions of Spanish Guayrá and the enslavement of over 60,000 indigenous people. Between 1648 and 1652, Tavares also led one of the longest known expeditions from São Paulo to the mouth of the Amazon river, investigating many of its tributaries, including the Rio ...
People of Colonial Brazil (6 C) S. Spanish missions in Brazil (1 C, ... Martim Afonso de Sousa's expedition to Brazil; Luís de Almeida Portugal, 2nd Marquess of ...
The Captaincy of Pernambuco or New Lusitania (Portuguese: Nova Lusitânia) [1] was a hereditary land grant and administrative subdivision of northern Portuguese Brazil during the colonial period from 1534 to 1821, with a brief interruption from 1630 to 1654 when it was part of Dutch Brazil.
Throughout the early colonial era Captaincies were granted, divided, subordinated, annexed, and abandoned. In 1548 when the captaincy of Baía de Todos os Santos (Bahia) [ Note 3 ] reverted to the Crown due to the massacre, by indigenous cannibals, of its donee, Francisco Pereira Coutinho and his settlers; the King, Dom João III, established a ...
Martim Afonso de Sousa's expedition patrols the Brazilian coast, banishes the French, and creates the first colonial town: São Vicente. [17] 1531: Bertrand d'Ornesan tries to establish a French trading post at Pernambuco. [18] 1532: 22 January: São Vicente is established as the first permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil. [19] 1534
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 ...
1759 — Jesuits are expelled from the colonies of Brazil and Maranhão by the Marquis of Pombal, leaving the 'Indians' without protection. 1799 — Prussian Naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt, explores the Orinoco and proves the link via the Casiquiare canal to Rio Negro. Humboldt refused permission to enter Portuguese colonial territory.
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