MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · Brazil
ONE LAND · 3 ATLASES
Brazil, on the map of history
What was Brazil before it was Brazil? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Brazil · The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
The age’s counter-case: a colony that became a kingdom’s seat (court in Rio, 1808), then an independent empire (1822) by a prince’s proclamation — near-bloodless, monarchical, and slaveholding (until 1888, the hemisphere’s last). Stability purchased by leaving the age’s two great questions — sovereignty of the people, freedom of the enslaved — deliberately unasked.
| APR 1775 | Colonial possessions — the opening position |
| SEP 1822 | Republics & revolutionary states |
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Brazil · The Great War, 1914–1918
| APR 1917 | The Entente & Allies — the opening position |
| APR 1917 | The Entente & Allies |
Brazil · The Cold War, 1945–1991
| AUG 1945 | US-aligned states — the opening position |
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