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Colonial Period

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Treaty of Tordesillas and early territorial claims in Brazil (1494–1549)

1479 - 1549

Treaty of Madrid and the Guaraní War in the borderlands (1750–1756)

1749 - 1777

Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil and the opening of the ports (1807–1810)

1807 - 1810

Transatlantic slave trade to Portuguese Brazil (1500–1807)

1494 - 1808

Sugar plantation economy in Pernambuco and colonial Recife (16th–17th centuries)

1534 - 1661

Quilombo dos Palmares and maroon resistance (c.1605–1694)

1597 - 1695

Portuguese discovery and initial coastal expeditions (1500–1530)

1494 - 1530

Pombaline reforms in Brazil and the expulsion of the Jesuits (1750–1777)

1750 - 1777

Inconfidência Mineira and late-colonial republican plots (1788–1792)

1788 - 1890

Gold rush in Minas Gerais and the rise of Vila Rica / Ouro Preto (1690s–1760s)

1695 - 1750

France Antarctique in Rio de Janeiro (1555–1567)

1555 - 1578

Founding of São Paulo and the rise of the Bandeiras (1554–1700)

1553 - 1709

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