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Painting depicting Pedro I declaring independence
Moments in History
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The First Brazilians
Bay. The French treated the
Tamoio far better than the
Portuguese had done and
succeeded in forging a military
alliance with them.
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The Portuguese Defeat the
Brazil's first inhabitants are
believed to have traveled across
temporary land bridges connec-
ting Asia and America at the
Bering Straits, and then south
through the Americas between
40,000 and 12,000 years ago.
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Portuguese Land in Rio
French-Tamoio Alliance
The Portuguese returned to Rio
and, with various indigenous
groups, fought numerous battles
against the French-Tamoio
Alliance, eventually defeating it
on January 20, 1567.
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The Portuguese Royal
On January 1, 1502, the
Portuguese explorer Gaspar de
Lemos arrived in Guanabara Bay,
where he built a small fort to
claim the bay for Portugal. But
hostile confrontations with the
indigenous Tamoio people led the
Portuguese to establish their
colony elsewhere in Brazil.
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The French Arrive
Court Moves to Rio
In November 1807, the entire
Portuguese royal family fled
Napoleon. Their fleet comprised
some 40 ships packed with
15,000 members of the
Portuguese court and government.
They arrived in Brazil in 1808.
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The French
In 1555, France sent a fleet
of ships to Rio, where they
claimed a tiny island in Guanabara
Cultural Mission
In 1816, King Dom João VI of
Portugal invited the French to
introduce European culture to Rio
by bringing in their styles of archi-
tecture, art, and music
(see p17)
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Pedro I Declares
Independence
King Dom João VI returned to
Portugal in 1821, leaving his son
Pedro as Prince Regent in Brazil.
Pedro declared independence
from Portugal the next year, and
crowned himself Emperor Dom
Pedro I. He and his son, Pedro II,
ruled for the next 67 years.
Portrait of Emperor Dom Pedro II
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