Brazil

443 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Brazil, 1815 CE to 2016 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

19th century

161 entries, 1815 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1815The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves is established under Queen Mary I. Brazil is elevated from the status of Portuguese colony to a constituent country of the united kingdom.Brazil source
1820After the Liberal Revolution of 1820, the Portuguese court returns from Brazil to Portugal.Brazil source
1822Dissolution of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the AlgarvesBrazil source
1824January 24: João Manuel Mena Barreto, brigadierBrazil source
1826May 2: D. Pedro I abdicates the Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter Dona Maria II.Brazil source
1831May 2: Emperor Pedro I abdicates from his post, leaving the throne for his 5-year-old son Pedro II. Since Pedro II was a minor, the country entered a regency period until he reached the age of 15 in 1840.Brazil source
1835April 7: Diogo Feijó wins the election as Regent of Brazil by just a difference of approximately 600 votes.Brazil source
18382 January: The National Public Archives is established in Rio de Janeiro.Brazil source
18409 June: Custódio José de Melo, admiral and politician (d. 1902)Brazil source
1846July 29 - Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil.Brazil source
1852February 20 - the victorious Brazilian Army marches through the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina.Brazil source
1857Establishment of banks including the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of Rio de Janeiro; the Bank of the Province of Rio Grande do Sul; the New Bank of Pernambuco, the Savings Bank of Pernambuco,;and the Bank of MaranhaoBrazil source
1866April 16 - Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops, under Marshal Manuel Luís Osório, cross the Rio Paraguay and stop at Fort Itapirú.Brazil source
1871September 28 - Law of Free Birth, or Rio Branco Law, passed by Brazilian Parliament, intending to provide freedom to all newborn children of slaves, and slaves of the state or crown.Brazil source
187320 July - Alberto Santos-DumontBrazil source
1874August 2 - Jacobina Mentz MaurerBrazil source
1883January 21 - Elias Augusto da Silva launches the Reformador, a revision of the Federação Espírita Brasileira.Brazil source
1885September 28: The Saraiva-Cotegipe Law, also known as the Sexagenarian Law, is enacted, which frees slaves 60 years of age and older in the country.Brazil source
1887date unknown – William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)Brazil source
188917 November – Emperor Dom Pedro II and his family are sent into exile in Europe.Brazil source
18906 January – A state funeral is held for the former Empress Teresa Cristina of Brazil, in Lisbon. A mass is attended by members of several European royal families.Brazil source
1892Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.Brazil source
1893September – Revolta da Armada launched by Royalist admiral Custódio José de MeloBrazil source
1894November 24 - Pardal Mallet, novelist and journalist (born 1864; tuberculosis)Brazil source
18972 October – the War of Canudos comes to a brutal end, when a large Brazilian army force overruns the village and kills nearly all the inhabitants.Brazil source

20th century

280 entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

190030 January - Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias is restored to the governorship of Acre.Brazil source
190226 March – The Prinetti Decree is approved by the Italian General Commissariat of Emigration suspending emigration to Brazil of all Italians not paying their own passage. The decree was named after the then Italian foreign affairs minister, Giulio Prinetti, and approved based on a report denouncing the terrible living conditions experienced by Italian immigrants who had become virtual serfs on the coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo, with no medical care, no school for their children, small houses, no minimum hygiene conditions, and physical violence, even the use of whips.Brazil source
1905Lima Barreto - O Subterrâneo do Morro do CasteloBrazil source
190720 February - The Brazilian government approves the design for its new battleships.Brazil source
190914 April: Physician Carlos Chagas discovers a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellated cinetoplastid protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, in the mining town of Lassance.Brazil source
191324 January - Borges de Medeiros begins his second term as President of Rio Grande do Sul, taking over from Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves.Brazil source
1916Brazilian Naval Aviation is established, in preparation for the country's participation in the First World War.Brazil source
192020 April - Opening ceremony of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at which Brazil competes for the first time. Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense is the first Brazilian to win a gold medal.Brazil source
1923The Brazilian Society of Chemistry is founded.Brazil source
1925Quando Elas Querem, directed by Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan and starring Luiz de BarrosBrazil source
192929 October - The US stock market crash causes a fall in coffee quotations to 60%.Brazil source
193112 October – The statue of Christ the Redeemer, overlooking Rio de Janeiro, is consecrated.Brazil source
19331 June – The Federal University of São Paulo is founded in São Paulo, Brazil.Brazil source
1937June 14 - President Getúlio Vargas signed the decree establishing the Itatiaia National Park, the first national park in Brazil.Brazil source
194121 September – The Estádio Presidente Vargas is opened at Fortaleza.Brazil source
194331 July - The Brazilian passenger ship and freighter Bage, largest commercial ship in Brazil's fleet, is torpedoed and sunk off the coast of the Sergipe state. The Bage, carrying 129 passengers and 102 crew, was en route from Belém to Rio de Janeiro when it was struck by a German U-boat. Seventy-eight people (41 passengers and 37 crew) are lost.Brazil source
1947Valdir Azevedo - "Brasileirinho"Brazil source
195028 July: A Constellation plane crashes into Morro do Chapéu, near Porto Alegre airport, killing 50 people.Brazil source
1953October 3: President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the state-owned multinational corporation Petrobras.Brazil source
1957January 26: The Ibirapuera Planetarium in São Paulo opens to the public. It is the first planetarium in the Southern Hemisphere.Brazil source
19597 December: The Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco approves the expropriation of Engenho Galiléia (a sugar mill), a project by Deputy Francisco Julião; lawyer for the Peasant League.Brazil source
19647 January: French actress Brigitte Bardot arrives in Rio de Janeiro and spends her summer in the resort of Búzios, drawing the attention of the national and international press to the place. Thanks to Bardot's visit, Búzios has now became one of the hottest spots in the Brazilian summer.Brazil source
196931 August: A military junta rules the country following the sudden illness of President Artur da Costa e Silva. The junta is made up of ministers Aurélio de Lira Tavares from the Army, Augusto Rademaker from the Navy, and Márcio de Sousa e Melo from the Air Force.Brazil source
1976dissolution of Associação Atlética RodoviáriaBrazil source
198514 March: President-elect Tancredo Neves is admitted to the Emergency Room of the Hospital de Base in the Federal District.Brazil source

21st century

2 entries, 2010 CE to 2016 CE

2010January 12: Humanitarian and aid worker, Zilda Arns is killed by the 2010 Haiti earthquake. She was there carrying out humanitarian activities on behalf of Pastoral da Criança.Brazil source
2016May 12 – The Brazilian Senate votes (55-22) to begin the impeachment process against the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff and suspend her from office while the trial takes place.Brazil source