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Early Portuguese voyages and colonization of Brazil (1500–1530)

Early Portuguese voyages and colonization of Brazil (1500–1530)

  1. Treaty of Tordesillas divides Atlantic claims

    Labels: Treaty of, Portugal, Castile

  2. Cabral’s fleet reaches the Brazilian coast

    Labels: Pedro lvares, Brazil coast, Monte Pascoal

  3. First Catholic Mass celebrated in Brazil

    Labels: Catholic Mass, Coroa Vermelha, Cabral expedition

  4. Caminha’s letter reports the new land

    Labels: P ro, Letter to

  5. Coelho-Vespucci expedition leaves Lisbon

    Labels: Gon alo, Amerigo Vespucci, Lisbon expedition

  6. Expedition reaches Brazil and surveys the coast

    Labels: 1501 1502, Rio de, Guanabara Bay

  7. Cantino planisphere depicts Brazil on a world map

    Labels: Cantino planisphere, Portuguese cartography

  8. Crown grants brazilwood trading monopoly to Loronha

    Labels: Fern o, Brazilwood monopoly

  9. Fernando de Noronha islands granted as a fief

    Labels: Fernando de, Fern o

  10. Terra Brasilis map illustrates brazilwood extraction

    Labels: Terra Brasilis, brazilwood

  11. French brazilwood trade pressures Portuguese control

    Labels: French merchants, brazilwood trade

  12. Martim Afonso de Sousa sails to begin colonization

    Labels: Martim Afonso, 1530 expedition

  13. São Vicente founded as a permanent Portuguese settlement

    Labels: S o, Martim Afonso