Colonial Period
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Beckman Revolt and social unrest in Maranhão (1684–1694)
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1654 - 1694
Captaincy system and establishment of hereditary captaincies (1534–1549)
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1530 - 1549
Conflicts over Minas: the War of the Emboabas and related disputes (1708–1711)
12entries
1708 - 1711
Dutch Brazil (New Holland) and Maurício de Nassau (1630–1654)
16entries
1624 - 1661
Founding and growth of Rio de Janeiro as a colonial port (1565–1763)
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1555 - 1763
Founding of Salvador and the Governorate General of Brazil (1549–1553)
13entries
1548 - 1553
Founding of São Paulo and the rise of the Bandeiras (1554–1700)
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1553 - 1709
France Antarctique in Rio de Janeiro (1555–1567)
13entries
1555 - 1578
Gold rush in Minas Gerais and the rise of Vila Rica / Ouro Preto (1690s–1760s)
14entries
1695 - 1750
Inconfidência Mineira and late-colonial republican plots (1788–1792)
12entries
1788 - 1890
Pombaline reforms in Brazil and the expulsion of the Jesuits (1750–1777)
14entries
1750 - 1777
Portuguese discovery and initial coastal expeditions (1500–1530)
13entries
1494 - 1530
Quilombo dos Palmares and maroon resistance (c.1605–1694)
12entries
1597 - 1695
Sugar plantation economy in Pernambuco and colonial Recife (16th–17th centuries)
16entries
1534 - 1661
Transatlantic slave trade to Portuguese Brazil (1500–1807)
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1494 - 1808