Brazilian History

  • 1500

    1500: Pedro lands in Brazil

    Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    1500 - 1700

  • 1530

    1530: Villages

    Martim Afonso de Sousa makes the first villages.
  • 1549

    1549: Government

    Tome de Sousa was sent to establish a central goverenment.
  • 1550

    mid 1500: Slaves

    Slaves come to brazil.
  • 1555

    1555: French Invasion

    The French try and fail to take Brazil.
  • 1654: Dutch

    The Dutch pull out of the war.
  • 1695: Gold

    Gold was discovered in Brazil.
  • Period: to

    1700 - 1850

  • 1705: Portugal gives up city

    1705 – Portugal gives up Colonia del Sacramento in the Treaty of Utrecht (aka Spanish Succession)
  • 1727: Coffee

    Coffee was introduced to Brazil.
  • 1798: Revolution

    The Minas Conspiracy fails.
  • 1807: Invasion

    France invades Portugal.
  • 1815: Portuguese Brazil

    Brazil becomes part of the Portuguese Kingdom.
  • 1822: Independence

    Pedro l declares Brazil Independent from Portugal.
  • 1824: Constitution

    Pedro l writes the first Brazilian Constitution.
  • Period: to

    1850 - 1950

  • Date #1 The war of the triple alliance

    South America’s War of the Triple Alliance saw Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay aligned against Paraguay.
  • Date #2 Slavery in Brazil

    After the American civil war some southerners moved to brazil
  • Date #3 end of Slavery

    May 13th Slavery was abolished in Brazil. Some 4 million slaves had been imported, the most of any nation in the western hemisphere.
  • Date #4 the end of the monarcy

    Nov 15th, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, emperor dom Pedro ll was overthrown
  • Date #5 Christ the Redeemer Statue

    Oct 12th, the Rio de Janeiro 98-foot statue of Christ the Redeemer was unveiled atop Corcovado Mountain
  • Date #6 Brazilian Women Suffrage

    Brazilian women won the right to vote!
  • Date #7 World War ll

    Aug 22nd, Brazil declared war on the Axis powers.
  • 1945 Vargas

    Vargas is deposed by the military in a surprise coup
  • 1950: Vargas as president

    1950- Vargas is democratically elected as president
  • Period: to

    1950 - 2021

  • 1954: Vargas faces another coup

    1954 Vargas faces another coup, he chose to end his own life.
  • 1960: Capital moved to Brasilia

    1960 Capital moved to Brasilia, from Rio de Janeiro
  • 1964: military coup

    1964, military coup took over Brazil's government
  • 1985: Civilian government

    1985- Civilian government was restored
  • 2010: the first woman president

    2010- Dilma Rousseff elected, the first woman in Brazilian history to become President
  • 1985-today: presidential terms

    1985-today, Currently six presidential terms have taken place since 1985