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    The Declaration of majority of Pedro II (Portuguese: Declaração da Maioridade de D. Pedro II ) was a document signed by the General Assembly of Brazil...
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    the "Cry of Ipiranga", the declaration of Brazil's independence, Returning to the city of São Paulo on the night of 7 September 1822, Pedro and his companions...
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    of the Brazilian colonial territory, Paulo Pedro Perides, Department of Geography Magazine, 7 November 2011. (in Portuguese) Decree-law no. 4102, of 9...
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    Finally the governor of the captaincy of Pernambuco, Pedro Almeida, organized an army under the leadership of the Bandeirantes Domingos Jorge Velho and...
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    the history of the Empire of Brazil, between the abdication of Emperor Pedro I, on 7 April 1831, and the declaration of majority of Pedro II, who was legally...
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    February 8, 1943, Brazil formally joined the Allies upon signing the Declaration by United Nations. Although Brazil was considered a secondary Allied...
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    arrived in Brazil in April 1500, when a fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral on behalf of the Portuguese crown arrived in present-day Porto Seguro,...
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    the regency period on 23 July 1840, upon the declaration of Pedro de Alcântara's majority, and ending on 15 November 1889, when the parliamentary constitutional...
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    Cangaço (category Empire of Brazil)
    offensive led to bloodshed, and eleven members of the band were killed: Lampião, Maria Bonita, Luís Pedro, Mergulhão, Enedina, Elétrico, Quinta-Feira, Moeda...
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    Bandeirantes (category Portuguese explorers of South America)
    in Portuguese, by Pedro Taques de Almeida Paes Leme Paulistana Genealogy, Silva Leme History of the Captaincy of São Vicente, Pedro Taques de Almeida...
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    Pedro II (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (Portuguese: O Magnânimo), was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil...
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    Estado Novo ended when two of his most rightist supporters, the Minister of War Eurico Gaspar Dutra, and Army Chief-of-Staff Pedro Aurélio de Góis Monteiro...
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    coronation of Emperor Pedro I took place on 1 December 1822. The Brazilian declaration of independence and foundation of the Empire of Brazil led to a War of Independence...
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    September 1822, forming the Empire of Brazil and ending 322 years of colonial dominance of Portugal over Brazil. Pedro was crowned the first emperor in...
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    Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in 1581. As part of the war, Dutch raiders attacked Spanish lands, colonies, and ships. In 1594 Philip II, who was...
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    Milk coffee politics (category Modern history of Brazil)
    to the oligarchic domination of Brazilian politics under the so-called Old Republic (1889–1930) by the landed gentries of São Paulo (dominated by the coffee...
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    Cardoso (1952–1954) Alim Pedro (1954–1955) Francisco Negrão de Lima (1956–1958) José J. de Sá Freire Alvim (1958–1960) List of mayors of largest cities in Brazil...
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    the political regime established in 1964 was popular and had the majority support of the population, why the hell did it need authoritarian mechanisms...
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    Treaty of Tordesillas, and in 1500 navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in what is now Brazil and laid claim to it in the name of king Manuel I of Portugal...
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    Kuhikugu (category Lost City of Z)
    in Brazil, at the headwaters of the Xingu River, in the Amazon Rainforest. The area around Kuhikugu is located in part of the Xingu National Park today...
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    Republic began with the coup d'état that deposed emperor Pedro II in 1889, and ended with the Revolution of 1930 that installed Getúlio Vargas as a new president...
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  • Thumbnail for 1964 Brazilian coup d'état
    took the form of a military rebellion, the declaration of vacancy in the presidency by the National Congress on April 2, the formation of a military junta...
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  • Thumbnail for Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha
    established their presence with enclaves, forts and fortified trading posts. Pedro Álvares Cabral led the largest fleet in the Portuguese fleet on a mission...
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    August, 1942. Popular mobilization to make the war declaration effective, with the despatching of Brazilian troops to Europe, continued, but a decision...
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    Equinoctial France (category French colonization of the Americas)
    contemporary name given to the colonization efforts of France in the 17th century in South America, around the line of Equator, before "tropical" had fully gained...
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    expedition of Pedro Álvares Cabral, though the first Portuguese settlement was not established until 1516.[page needed] Soon after the arrival of the Portuguese...
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    The redemocratization of Brazil (Portuguese: abertura política, lit. 'political opening') was the 1974–1988 period of liberalization under the country's...
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    Coronelism (category Political history of Brazil)
    (1889–1930), also known as the "rule of the colonels", responsible for the centralization of political power in the hands of a locally dominant oligarch, known...
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  • Thumbnail for Catalan declaration of independence
    Catalan declaration of independence (Catalan: Declaració d'independència de Catalunya) was a resolution that was passed by the Parliament of Catalonia...
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    commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, an explorer on his way to India under the sponsorship of the Kingdom of Portugal and the support of the Catholic Church...
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