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Explorer Pedro Cabral lands in Brazil and claims it for Portugal. -
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Bans the French and creates the first Portuguese settlements in Brazil. -
Portugal establishes the very first sugarcane farms and tries to enslave the native people. Later they enslave Africans to work on the farms.
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Brings along Jesuits who set up missions and convert native people to Roman Catholicism. -
Two years later, Portugal regains control and establishes the city of Rio de Janeiro. -
After several years of war with Portugal, the Dutch withdraw. -
It was a big deal -
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Portugal gives up on the colonia do Sacramento. -
Brazil gets hands on coffee for the first time -
The minas conspiracy was a group inspired by the U.S. revolution. And the people from Brazil wanted to become more independent than Portugal but failed. -
John VI flees to Brazil with his family including his son Pedro. -
Brazil becomes one of the Portugal kingdom. -
Pedro refused to obey the cortes and said "tell the people that I am staying" -
In 1824 Pedro the first writes the first brazil constitution. -
Pedro I gives the throne to his son (aka) Pedro II -
In 1850 most of Brazil finally stopped slavery