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Brazilian History and Geography: Key Dates and Facts

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1494
Treaty of Tordesillas divides new lands between Portugal and Spain.
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1500
Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet reaches the coast of Brazil.
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1534
Start of the hereditary captaincies in Brazil.
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1637-1644
Johan Maurits of Nassau governs Dutch Brazil in Pernambuco.
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1695
Fall of the Quilombo dos Palmares; Zumbi is killed.
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1789
Inconfidência Mineira conspiracy; Tiradentes is executed in 1792.
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1808
Portuguese royal family arrives in Rio de Janeiro; ports are opened to friendly nations.
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7 September 1822
Dom Pedro I declares Brazil's independence.
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1850
Eusébio de Queirós Law ends the slave trade; Land Law makes land purchase the only way to acquire it.
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1864-1870
Paraguayan War: Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay against Paraguay.
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1871
Free Womb Law: children born to enslaved mothers are free.
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13 May 1888
Lei Áurea abolishes slavery.
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15 November 1889
Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims the Republic.
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1896-1897
Canudos War in Bahia; described by Euclides da Cunha in Os Sertões.
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1910
Revolta da Chibata: sailors led by João Cândido rebel against whipping.
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1922
Semana de Arte Moderna in São Paulo.
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1930
Revolution that brings Getúlio Vargas to power.
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1937-1945
Estado Novo, Vargas's dictatorship.
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1944-1945
Brazilian Expeditionary Force fights in Italy.
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1960
Brasília is inaugurated under President Juscelino Kubitschek.
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1964
Military coup against President João Goulart.
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December 1968
Institutional Act No. 5 (AI-5).
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1979
Amnesty Law.
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1984
Diretas Já campaign for direct presidential elections.
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1988
Promulgation of the Constitution, the 'Citizen Constitution'.
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1992
President Collor resigns during impeachment proceedings.
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1994
Plano Real introduces the real and controls inflation.
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Number of IBGE regions
Five: North, Northeast, Central-West, Southeast and South.
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Highest mountain in Brazil
Pico da Neblina, about 2 995 m, in Amazonas.
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Mercosur
Created by the 1991 Treaty of Asunción: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

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