XVème century

Brazil is uninhabited by indians only.

1494

By the treaty of Tordesillas, the pope divides the countries discovered between a Portuguese zones (the Eastern Brazil, Africa, Indies) and Spanish one.(America except Brésil).

April 22, 1500

The Portuguese Pedro Alvares Cabral discovers what was going to be the most important Portuguese colony .

1555

Nicolas de Villegagnon arrives in Rio de Janeiro where it create Henryville, chief town of
Antartique France, in 1556, followed by André Thevet and by Jean de Léry

1560

Destruction of Antarctic France by the Portuguese

XVIIIème century

The first brazilians independence wills failed.

September 7, 1822

Pedro Ier, who strongly contributed to the acceleration of social and political evolution, declares Brazil as an indépendant empire and sees himself crowning emperor on December 1 of the same year.

1930

The first republic is founded, but it is overthrown by a revolutionary movement leaded by Getulio Vargas.

1934

A new Constitution is founded, which widens the voting rights considerably, in particular to the women.

1939

When the second world war bursts, Brazil is the only south american country to send soldiers in Europe.
A few time after the end of the war, Vargas is constrained to resign.

1946

Eurico Gaspar Dutra succeeds to Vargas.
A new democratic Constitution is voted bythe assembly.

1951

Vargas is elected.
he commited suicide in 1954 during an economic crisis then the countryl knows five years of growing and plumeted under the presidency of Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-1961).

1964

After an other crisis the democracy is overthrown with a military coup.(five military governments follow one another )

1985

The democracy is restored under people pressure.

After the two mandates of the social democrat Fernando Henrique Cardoso (elected in 1994, re-elected in 1998), Brazil comes to a new political era.

October 27, 2002,

Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, known as Lula became the new president of the Brazilian republic.