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<div style="font-size: 270%"> Historical Timeline for Brazil - A chronology of key events</div>
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==Brazil Timeline==

* 1500: Pedro Alvares Cabral docks in the region which becomes a Portuguese possession.
* 1807: when the Napoleonic armies invaded Portugal, the Portuguese royal family settles in Rio de Janeiro.
* 1822: independence and proclamation of the empire of Brazil by Peter I.
* 1888: abolition of slavery.
* 1889: the monarchy is overthrown by the army which establishes a federal republic.
* 1930: the economic crisis leads to the fall of the regime. Getulio Vargas is appointed president.
* 1937: Getulio Vargas establishes a dictatorial regime, the "New State".
* 1945: Getulio Vargas is overthrown by the military. He became president again in 1951, then committed suicide three years later.
* 1956-1961: Presidency of Juscelino Kubitschek, who made Brasilia the capital of Brazil and launched a program to modernize the country.
* 1964: military coup.
* 1968-1973: period of strong economic growth, resulting in colossal debt.
* 1985: civilians return to power with the election, by an electoral college, of José Sarney to the presidency, in a context of economic crisis and hyperinflation.
* 1988: adoption of universal suffrage and establishment of a presidential system.
* 1989: election of Fernando Collor de Mello (National Reconstruction Party, created for the occasion). Accused of corruption, he was dismissed in 1992, then acquitted in 1994 for lack of evidence.
* 1992: the United Nations organize in Rio de Janeiro an "Earth Summit" devoted to the environment.
* 1994: Fernando Enrique Cardoso (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) is elected president. He will be re-elected in 1998.
* 1995: creation of Mercosur, the common market of South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay).
* 1999: new financial crisis following the Asian crisis of 1997.
* 2000: The ceremonies of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil are marked by violent incidents, Indians, blacks and landless peasants demonstrating against the official commemoration.
* October 2002: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, aka Lula, former metal worker and candidate of the Workers' Party (PT, left), is elected president with 61% of the vote.
* January 2003: President Lula da Silva launches the "Zero Hunger" program. This program aims to eradicate, in 4 years, the malnutrition which affects 46 million of the 170 million Brazilians.
* 2004
* September: Brazil participates in a summit meeting in New York with Germany, India and Japan, to officially apply for a seat as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
* October: Brazil successfully launches its first rocket from its Alcantara space base.
* 2005
* May: more than 12,000 "landless" peasants march towards Brasilia to protest against the slowness of the agrarian reform undertaken by President Lula.
* June-July: series of corruption scandals. resignation of José Dirceu, secretary general of the Presidency, and of the president of the Workers' Party, José Genoino.
* August: launch of the interoceanic road project linking Brazil and Peru. 1,100 km long, it will cross the Amazon and the Altiplano and link Brazil to the Peruvian ports, passing close to Bolivia.
* October: Brazilians refuse to ban the firearms trade in a referendum. Brazil has one of the highest death rates from violent death in the world.
* 2006
* April: President Lula announces Brazil's oil self-sufficiency by inaugurating a new deep-water extraction platform from the Petrobras company, 120 kilometers from the coast.
* May: the decision of the new Bolivian president, Evo Morales, to increase gas export prices, creates tensions with Brazil, whose public company Petrobras is the main investor in Bolivia.
* A series of organized crime attacks against the police and an increase in mutinies in the prisons of the state of São Paulo. The toll of this violence is 133 victims.
* October: presidential election. President Lula da Silva is largely re-elected with 60.8% of the vote against 39% for his social democratic opponent Geraldo Alckmin.
* 2007
* July: the Brazilian president announces the relaunch of his country's nuclear program and the construction of a third reactor.
* The crash of an Airbus A 320 in Sao paulo kills nearly 200.
* August: the government recognizes the responsibility of the state for crimes committed during the years of the dictatorship.
* 2008
* March: the Catholic Church launches an offensive against abortion. She intends to prevent Parliament from approving less repressive legislation on abortion, which is only allowed in cases of rape or danger to the mother's life.
* April: the Brazilian company

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