Portuguese Brazil: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity; the chronology of its events is available here.

On the legal basis of the Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the world between Spain and Portugal the latter started the colonization of the western coast of South America around 1500, founding the Portuguese Colony of Brazil. It ceased to be a colony in 1815, when Portugal, Brazil and Algarve became an Union of Kingdoms. All ties to Portugal were severed in 1822 when Brazil became an empire.