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Jun 8, 1500
Portugal claims Brazil
The Portugese landed in Brazil and tried to claim it. At first the Native people were nice and helped them until they started to opress them and kill them -
Slavery was abolished in Brazil
Slavery was abolished here and the Europeans figured that they could come here and find work. This mad a lot of new immigrants from Europe come to Brazil. -
Coffee exports sky rocket!
Brazil is now producing 65% of the worlds coffee. A lot of this money helped the governement invest in other countries and get other exports started. -
Citizen revolt brought in new president
After a lot of oppression of the people they got fed up of the injustice. After the revolt settled down the people let Getulio Vargas stand in to represnt them -
New President
Juscelino Kubitschek is president, which helped Brazil get its economy rolling and got Brazil a good amount of money by managing all the expenses. -
Brazil get sick of paying debt
Brazil stopped paying its foreign debt which was one of the biggest at the time. This made many people angry over seas because they owed them money, -
Brazil celebrates its 500 anniversary
At this celebration lot of Indigenous indians protested against the Portugese because they depleted their population form 5 million to around 350,000.