It is officially considered intangible cultural heritage of Brazil.

The bridge was officially opened on September 14, 2009, enabling economic interests in northern Brazil to link by road to the port at Georgetown.

* April 22 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Portugal.

The first ever true carnival expression of this Brazilian festivity, officially recognized by Carnaval historians in Brazil, took place in Rio de Janeiro, with the " préstitos ", very similar to a musical processions, in 1641, when D. João IV was crowned in Portugal as a King and parties were celebrated in Rio public streets.

In Brazil, as an officially recognised platform or faction of the PT until 1992, the Trotskyist Movimento Convergência Socialista ( CS ), which founded the United Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSTU ) in 1994, saw a number of its members elected to national, state and local legislative bodies during the 1980s.

: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada ( French-speaking ), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia ( comma used officially, but both forms are in use elsewhere ), Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Faroes, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Greenland, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgistan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg ( uses both marks officially ), Macau ( in Portuguese text ), Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa ( officially ), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland ( when the amount is not in Swiss francs ), Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam.

On 1981, the campus officially establishes the foreign exchange student program with Japan, China, Ukraine, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

The church is officially established in the following countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Almost 4 months later to the day, Josef Mengele ( whose location was still not known at the time, and would not officially be discovered until 1985 ) died in Bertioga, Brazil.

* Only officially released in Japan ( available in Europe and Brazil via upgrades )

The following year, Brazil accepted the sovereignty of Bolivia in the zone, when it officially recognized the old boundaries at the confluence of the Beni and Mamoré.

In 1775 all Brazilian Estados ( Brasil, Maranhão and Grão-Pará ) were unified into the Viceroyalty of Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro as capital, and the title of the king's representative was officially changed to that of Viceroy of Brazil.

The president of Brazil ( officially the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil or simply the President of the Republic ) is both the head of state and head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

However, from the proclamation of the Republic in 1889 until 1967 the country was officially styled Republic of the United States of Brazil, and thus the full title of the Presidents from Deodoro da Fonseca to Humberto Castello Branco was President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil.

Brazil officially adopted this design for its national flag on November 19, 1889, replacing the flag of the second Empire of Brazil.

The Estádio do Maracanã (), officially Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho (), is an open-air stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pedro Álvares Cabral sailed to India, officially discovering Brazil on the way, to trade for pepper and other spices, negotiating and establishing a factory ( trading post ) at Calicut, where he arrived on 13 September 1500.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uruguay from Brazil in 1825.

* Independence day, celebrates the independence of Brazil from Portugal in 1822

As with every state in Brazil, Mato Grosso celebrates this holiday in a typical fashion-including parades, music, and dance-with wide participation.

Independence or Death, famous painting from Pedro Américo that celebrates the Independence Day ( Brazil ) | Independence Day of Brazil.

On the second Sunday in October, Pará celebrates the largest and greatest religious event in Brazil.

Although the music has gained widespread popularity in all of Brazil and is growing in popularity outside Brazil, the event most closely associated with Forró is the annual Festa Junina ( June Festival ), a part of Brazilian traditional culture which celebrates a number of Catholic saints.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Eucharist at the canonization of Frei Galvão in São Paulo, Brazil on 11 May 2007

The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil celebrates her feast day every October 12.

* Dia dos Namorados ( Brazil )

** Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos ( Brazil and Portugal )

The holiday has spread throughout the world: In Brazil, Dia de Finados is a public holiday that many Brazilians celebrate by visiting cemeteries and churches.

The 1970s saw the emergence of many progressive rock and / or hard rock bands such as O Terço, A Bolha, A Barca do Sol, Som Nosso de Cada Dia, Vímana and Bacamarte, some of which attained some recognition internationally ; Rita Lee, in her solo career after Os Mutantes, championed the glam-rock aesthetics in Brazil ; Casa das Máquinas and Patrulha do Espaço were more bona-fide hard rock bands, and the likes of ( Raul Seixas, Secos e Molhados, Novos Baianos and A Cor do Som ) mixed the genre with traditional Brazilian music.

With the purpose of countering the growing trend of adopting the Anglo-Celtic Halloween in Brazil ( in Portuguese called Dia das Bruxas ), the Day of the Saci was created in 2005, and it is likewise commemorated on October 31.

Also debuting that year were the Praça TV local newscasts ( the name of the program were different depending on the state or locality it was transmitted to: RJ TV, SP TV, MG TV, ES TV, DF TV, BA TV, Paraná TV, ...), aired twice a day and the national version of the network's São Paulo morning newscast, Bom Dia Brasil ( Good Morning Brazil ), with Carlos Monforte as its first anchor, by then based in Globo's Brasília studios until 1996.

* Dia * ( Spain, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, China, Argentina, Portugal )

In Brazil, the day is called " O Dia dos Reis " ( The Day of Kings ), commemorating the arrival of the Magi to confirm Jesus as son of God.

There were many Progressive rock bands in Brazil, such as O Terço, Mutantes ( without Rita Lee ), A Bolha ( Hard rock with Progressive mix ), Módulo 1000, A Barca do Sol, Som Nosso de Cada Dia, Vímana ( in which Lulu Santos and Lobão started their musical careers ), Moto Perpétuo and Bacamarte, which were very well known in Europe and the US by progressive fans.

O Dia is a major daily newspaper from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Coffee Plantation up São João do Manhuaçu City mouth – Minas Gerais State – Brazil.

* The Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil ( Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil )

Artigas, Uruguay and neighboring Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul are large world producers exceeding in quantity Minas Gerais, as well as Mato Grosso, Espirito Santo, Bahia, and Ceará states, all amethyst producers of importance in Brazil.

* ABC Futebol Clube, a football ( soccer ) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

In the União do Vegetal of Brazil, an organised spiritual tradition in which people drink ayahuasca, the brew is prepared exclusively from B. caapi and P. viridis.

In Brazil, a number of modern religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca have emerged, the most famous of them being Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal ( or UDV ), usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic or, more often ( as with Santo Daime and the UDV ), integrated with Christianity.

The project studied members of the União do Vegetal ( UDV ) church in Brazil who use hoasca as a sacrament.

* 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.

As a result, many Cimbri has left the mountain region and dispersed around the world, for places such as the Rio Grande do Sul state in Southern Brazil.

Examples are Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where Talian is used, and the town of Chipilo near Puebla, Mexico ; each continues to use a derived form of Venetian dating back to the nineteenth century.

The other islands south to the Straights of Okinawa correspond to southern Brazil, with Gaja Island being opposite the outskirts of Santo Antônio da Patrulha, Takarajima with Jua, Amami Ōshima covering the villages of Carasinho and Fazenda Pae João, Ginoza, Okinawa with Palmas, Paraná, the Kerama Islands with Pato Branco, Tonaki Island with São Lourenço do Oeste, and Kume Island corresponding to Palma Sola.

* Brazil – Willys Overland do Brasil, purchased by Ford to become Ford do Brasil – 1957 – 1985 and the Troller T4 is a fiberglass bodied Jeep version built in Brazil.

* 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus # 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.

# P. onca palustris ( the largest subspecies, weighing more than 135 kg or 300 lb ): The Pantanal regions of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, along the Paraguay River into Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.

In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares, having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.

He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

As such, the FARC has been classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of Colombia, the United States, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the European Union ; whereas the governments of Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and Nicaragua do not classify the FARC as a terrorist organization.

From the second half of the 19th century onward, as blacks, mestizas, and ex-soldiers of the War of Canudos in Rio de Janeiro came from various parts of Brazil ( mainly Bahia ) and settled in the vicinity of Morro da Conceição, Pedra do Sal, Praça Mauá, Praça Onze, Cidade Nova, Saúde, and Zona Portuária.

This group, the Turma do Estácio, from which would arise Deixa Falar, was the first samba school in Brazil.

Another such claim is made for a stalactite that hangs in the Chamber of Rarities in the Gruta Rei do Mato ( Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil ).