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In 1494 Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas virtually dividing Americas between Portugal and Spain.
On 22 of April 1500, the portugese fleet commandor Pedro Alvares Cabral haslanded on Brasilian shores. Portugese found a native tree that wood is amber, in Portugese - brasa, like colour. They named this new country Brasil from the name of the tree, 500 years ago.
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king of Prtugal, Pedro II fled Portugal, after French invaded it in
1808, to Brasil and Rio de Janerio was the capital city of Portugese
Empire, not Lisbon, until 7th of September 1822, when Pedro II gave
Brasil independence from Portugal. Brasil become the Republic on 15th
November 1889.
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