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  2. Discovery of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The map shows that further east, and separated from the mainland, is an island marked as discovered by Portugal, and colored in blue. De la Cosa probably intended to show the land discovered by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, which he named "Terra de Vera Cruz" or "de Santa Cruz". The Portuguese believed it to be an island (Island of Vera Cruz ...

  3. History of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Colonial Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese discovery of Brazil was preceded by a series of treaties between the kings of Portugal and Castile, ... Portuguese map by Lopo Homem (c. 1519), showing ...

  5. Pedro Álvares Cabral - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Portuguese maritime exploration - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Fossil of new reptile species found in Brazil sheds light on ...

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    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 ...

  8. Timeline of Brazilian history - Wikipedia

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    Brazil conducts its first official census, the population is 9,930,478. [116] 1873–1874: Revolt of the Muckers in Rio Grande do Sul. [117] 1876: 28 April: Francisco, a slave, becomes the last person to be executed in Brazil, after murdering his masters, being hanged in Pilar, Alagoas. 1877–1878: Grande Seca (Great Drought) in Northeastern ...

  9. Carvings discovered on rock walls in Brazil — then something ...

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    Carvings discovered on rock walls in Brazil — then something prehistoric is revealed. Irene Wright. March 20, 2024 at 11:44 AM. ... Sousa is in the state of Paraíba in Brazil, about a 1,600 ...