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  Brazil timeline
     
1494
 
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In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him Brazil     
1500
 
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Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral, with a fleet of thirteen ships, makes landfall in Brazil      
1549
 
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Brazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor general     
1549
 
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The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia (now Salvador) as his capital       
1693
 
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Gold is found in Brazil, launching the first great American gold rush     
1759
 
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The Portuguese expel the Jesuits from Brazil, beginning a widespread reaction against the order in Catholic Europe