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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 ...
The Renaissance (UK: / r ɪ ˈ n eɪ s ən s / rin-AY-sənss, US: / ˈ r ɛ n ə s ɑː n s / ⓘ REN-ə-sahnss) [1] [2] [a] is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Brazilian military government, also known in Brazil as the United States of Brazil or Fifth Brazilian Republic, was the authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1 April 1964 to 15 March 1985.
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.
Manaus was the first Brazilian capital to receive electricity. Financed by rubber, the Belle Époque of the Northern region began in 1871, mainly centred on the cities of Belém (capital of the state of Pará) and Manaus (capital of the state of Amazonas), known as the Paris of the Tropics or Paris n'America, and was a period marked by intensive modernization of both cities.
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.
In the historiography of Luso-Brazilian art, the same issues also affect us, since some traditional references use the terms 'Renaissance' and 'post-Renaissance' to define the appearance of numerous works from the 16th century in Portugal, as well as that of the oldest surviving works in Brazil, especially the stonework and carved altars ...
The colonial architecture of Brazil is defined as the architecture carried out in the current Brazilian territory from 1500, the year of the Portuguese arrival, until its Independence, in 1822. During the colonial period , the colonizers imported European stylistic currents to the colony, adapting them to the local material and socioeconomic ...