Colonial Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil Colonial), sometimes referred to as Portuguese America, comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal.

Thus, the history of Brazil begins with the indigenous people in Brazil. The Portuguese arrived to the land that would become Brazil on April 22, 1500, commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, an explorer on his way to India under the sponsorship of the Kingdom of Portugal and the support of the Catholic Church.

2014年8月5日 · The Portuguese reached the coast of what today is Brazil in April 1500. This occurrence was but one of the many episodes of Portuguese overseas expansion, which began early in the 15th century.

lived along the coast exploited the resources of the sea and forests fought many small wars, revenge raids engaged in ritual cannibalism. 16th Brazil, slow pace of colonization Chance and the Portuguese in Brazil Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494: Portuguese to 370 leagues west of Cape Verdes; Spanish beyond... Pedro Cabral, 1500: “Isle of the True ...

The first arrival of European explorers to the territory of present-day Brazil is often credited to Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, who sighted the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, on 22 April 1500 while leading an expedition to India.

2000年4月4日 · Cabral (center-left, pointing) sights the Brazilian mainland for the first time on 22 April 1500. A painting by Aurélio de Figueiredo The discovery of Brazil was an episode in the creation of a Portuguese commercial empire which in …

Brazil was officially "discovered" in 1500, when a fleet commanded by Portuguese diplomat Pedro Álvares Cabral, on its way to India, landed in Porto Seguro, between Salvador and Rio de Janeiro.

2008年3月28日 · The first Portuguese to write on Brazil was Pero Vaz de Caminha in his famous letter to King Manoel, 1 May 1500 (translated in The Voyages of Pedro Alvares Cabral to Brazil and India, Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., vol. 81, London, 1937, 3–33).

It is tempting to see a single day, 23 April 1500, when the Portuguese admiral Pedro Álvares Cabral anchored his fleet of twelve ships off the coast of Brazil, as the beginning. Because his destination was India, Cabral remained in Brazil for only ten days, yet those few days in April and May marked the official Portuguese discovery of Brazil.

Table of Contents Brazil, 1500-1630: from Portuguese contact to Dutch conquest Three themes in Brazilian history Population of Brazil, 1500-1994 (millions--rough estimates) Cultural types at contact: mainly bands and tribes in “Brazil” Geographical determinism of settlement patterns: Native Americans to 1500