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Period: Sep 30, 1450 to
Brazil Colonial Critical Events
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Oct 1, 1494
Papal Treaty of Tordesillas
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Jan 1, 1500
Qunito (the Fifth) Enacted
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Oct 1, 1500
1500 - Brazilian Amerindians make contact with the Portuguese
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Period: Oct 1, 1500 to Oct 1, 1558
Donatorial System in place
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Period: Oct 1, 1500 to
Portuguese colonists, not the Crown, explore interior
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Period: Oct 1, 1500 to Oct 1, 1550
Brazilian Amerindians on coast enslaved or decimated
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Oct 1, 1522
Epidemics kill 1/2 of all Brazilian Amerindians
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Oct 1, 1532
Portuguese merchants & colonists set up first permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil
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Oct 1, 1537
Pope Paul III declares unjust Brazilian Amerindian slavery illegal
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Oct 1, 1550
Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Brazil
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Oct 1, 1550
African slaves begin to arrive in Brazil
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Period: Oct 1, 1550 to
Portuguese merchants & colonists become wealthy off the Triangle Trade
Brazilwood, slavery, sugar, gold, rubber also a big part of the Triangle Trade -
Period: Oct 1, 1560 to
Brazil #1 sugar producing nation in the world
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Oct 1, 1580
Catholic Inquisition intorduced to Brazil
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Period: Oct 1, 1580 to
Consolidation of Portuguese and Spanish Crowns
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Brazil dependant on African slave labor
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Portuguese Crown expands beyond Tordesillas Treaty
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Period: to
African slave-runaway society of Quilombos dos Palmores thrives
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Brazilian sugar market crashes
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Catholic Jesuits attempt to shield Amerindians; colonists revolt
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Gold discovered in Brazil; begins Gold Cycle
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African slaves driving labor force behind sugar, gold, diamonds
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Portuguese merchants & colonists discover gold & diamonds in Minas Gerais
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Period: to
African slaves, numbering 1.7 million, arrive in Brazil
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Brazilian Amerindian Attack
Occured on the Negro River; over 2000 settlers killed. -
Jesuits expelled from Brazil
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Brazilian Amerindians virtually wiped out