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Brazil and World
According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.
* Brazil during World War I: Brazil entered into World War I in 1917 alongside the Triple Entente.
After World War II, Brazil developed a steel mill at Volta Redonda, in Rio de Janeiro State, and quickly became the largest steel producer in Latin America.
* Brazil military profile from the CIA World Factbook
The city will be one of the host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, for which Brazil is the host nation.
Goeldi's marmoset or Goeldi's monkey ( Callimico goeldii ) is a small, South American New World monkey that lives in the upper Amazon Basin region of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
His most famous moment occurred in the 1970 World Cup against Brazil, where he pulled off a stunning save from a goalbound header from Pelé, which is often regarded as arguably the greatest save ever.
* 1954 The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
* 1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
His final appearance, for England was on 10 June 1962, as England were defeated 3-1 by Brazil in the World Cup quarter-final at Estadio Sausalito in Viña del Mar, Chile.
In 1992, he was invited to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations ' International Conference on Environment and Development, and then he became a regular consultant for the UN and the World Bank.
* Lost City of Z-A city allegedly located in the jungles of the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, was said to have been seen by the British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett sometime prior to World War I.
* 1917 World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
It is distinct from the various traditional animistic religions in the interiors of these same countries and is the main origin for religions of similar name found among the African Diaspora in the New World such as Haitian Vodou, the Vudu of Puerto Rico, Candomblé Jejé in Brazil ( which uses the term Vodum ), Louisiana Voodoo and Santería in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Starting in 1997, W3C created regional offices around the world ; as of September 2009, it has eighteen World Offices covering Australia, the Benelux countries ( Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium ), Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.
* 1962 FIFA World Cup hosted in Chile, won by Brazil
* 1950 World Cup hosted by Brazil, won by Uruguay
* 1958 World Cup hosted by Sweden, won by Brazil
Association football's important events included two World Cups, one organized in South Korea, Japan, which saw Brazil win a record fifth title, and the other in Germany, which saw Italy's fourth title.
* July 12 France beats Brazil 3 0 in the football World Cup final.

Brazil and War
* 1828 Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
South America is a relatively peaceful continent in which wars are a rare event ; as a result, Brazil hasn't had its territory invaded since year 1865 during the Paraguayan War.
* Cisplatine War ( 1825 1828 ): Armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or " Eastern Shore " between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and Empire of Brazil in the aftermath of the United Provinces ' emancipation from Spain.
* War of the Ragamuffins ( 1835-1845 ): Was a Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina in 1835.
* War of Canudos ( 1893 1897 ): The deadliest rebellion of Brazil, the insurrectionists defeated the first 3 military forces sent to quell the rebellion.
Following the 1868 1878 rebellion of the Ten Years ' War, all slavery was abolished by 1884, making Cuba the second-to-last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery, with Brazil being the last.
Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).
The boundary dispute led to the Cenepa War between Ecuador and Peru in early 1995 ; after a peace agreement brokered by the four Guarantors of the Rio Protocol ( Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States ), the Military Observers Mission to Ecuador-Peru ( MOMEP ) was set up to monitor the zone.
The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance ( Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina ) in the Paraguayan War.
More recent uses include: by France during the First Indochina War ( 1946 1954 ), the Algerian War ( 1954 1962 ), the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 1974 ) and the Western Sahara War ( 1975 1991 ), The Six-Day War by Israel ( 1967 ), in Nigeria ( 1969 ), India and Pakistan ( 1965 and 1971 ), Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 ), by Morocco during the Western Sahara War ( 1975 1991 ), Iran ( 1980 88 ), Brazil ( 1972 ), Egypt ( 1973 ), Iraq ( 1980 88, 1991, 2003 2011 ), Angola ( 1993 ), Yugoslavia ( 1991-1996 ), and by Argentina ( 1982 ).
* 1864 American Civil War: captures the Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.

Brazil and II
* 1825 Emperor Pedro II of Brazil ( d. 1891 )
Pedro II Emperor of Brazil in regalia at the opening of the General Assembly ( oil painting by Pedro Américo ).
** Pedro II of Brazil | Pedro II is deposed and Brazil becomes a republic.
* 1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Using the same printer as for the Penny Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor Pedro II, so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark.
* Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil's daughter, died of typhoid Fever on 7 February 1871.
** Pope John Paul II visits Brazil ; 7 people are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.
* November 14 Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil ( born 1846 )
* Emperor Pedro II ( Brazil )
* April 7 Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as emperor of Brazil in favor of his son Pedro II of Brazil.
* December 2 Emperor Pedro II of Brazil ( d. 1891 )
" France Antarctique | Brazilian ball " for Henry II of France | Henry II and Catherine de ' Medici in Rouen, 1 October 1550, a precursor to the creation of France Antarctique in Brazil.
Several historians have hypothesized that John II may have known of the existence of Brazil and North America as early as 1480 thus explaining his wish in 1494 at the signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas, to push the line of influence further west.
# The Quadruple Alliance of April 1834 was formed by the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal to support queen Isabella II of Spain against her uncle Don Carlos, Count of Molina, who claimed the Spanish throne under the succession law of 1714-1830, and queen Maria II of Portugal ( represented by her father Pedro, 18th Duke of Braganza, former Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal ) against her uncle Miguel of Portugal, who proclaimed himself absolute king before the Portuguese Liberal War.

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