* 1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.

* Brazilian Army

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

The former president Lula and Brazilian Army soldier s, part of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Brazilian Imperial Army soldiers during the Paraguayan War, 1864-70.

Brazilian Army during World War II in Italy.

Due to this battle, the year 1648 is considered as the year of the foundation of the Brazilian Army.

Brazilian Army soldier s during the Independence Day ( Brazil ) | Independence Day Parade in Brasília.

Leopard 1A1 Brazilian Army.

M-113 Brazilian Army.

A Brazilian U. N. peacekeeper walks with Haitian children during a patrol in Cité Soleil, a section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Although no military coups occurred during the 67 years of the Brazilian Empire, the Republican period experienced 4 military coup d ' états in the 75 years between 1889 and 1964.

A Brazilian navy AH-11A Super Lynx Mk-21A helicopter prepares to drop a boarding team by fast rope during a visit, board, search and seizure ( VBSS ) exercise.

Brazilian corvette Barroso ( V-34 ) underway for the first time during sea trials.

* 1809 – Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.

A similar process happened during the development of many languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Old French, and Polish, in all three of these resulting in or, whence Modern French sauce as compared with Spanish salsa, or Polish Wisła ( pronounced ) as compared with English Vistula.

* 1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian ditactor Getúlio Vargas, which occurred in the city of São Paulo.

Samba continued to act as a unifying agent during the 1990s, when Rio stood as a national Brazilian symbol.

Montevideo, which was used as a supply station by the Brazilian navy, experienced a period of prosperity and relative calm during the war.

Drawing on his experience in the development of Minnesota's Iron Range, Hill was, during 1911 – 1912, in close contact with Gaspard Farrer of Baring Brothers & Company of London regarding the formation of the Brazilian Iron Ore Company to tap that nation's rich mineral deposits.

In South America, also during the early 20th century, free-ranging boars were introduced in Uruguay for hunting purposes and eventually crossed the border into Brazil sometime during the 1990s, quickly becoming an invasive species, licensed private hunting of both feral boars and hybrids ( javaporcos ) being allowed from August 2005 on in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, although their presence as a pest had been already noticed by the press as early as 1994.

The creation of a Brazilian animated character during the Second World War was part of a strategy called " Good Neighbor Policy " headed by the United States government to improve relations and gather support amongst its neighbor countries.

An additional sub-group of African descent from the Caribbean and South America on Bioko Island were descendants of freed Cuban and Brazilian slaves brought to the islands during the 17th century and 19th century.

The greater share of the political executions during the 21 years of Military Dictatorship ( 1964 – 1985 ) were done by the Brazilian Armed Forces itself.

Lieberman gains insight from Frieda Maloney ( Uta Hagen ), an incarcerated former Nazi guard who worked with the adoption agency, before realising during a meeting with Professor Bruckner ( Bruno Ganz ), an expert on cloning, the terrible truth behind the Nazi plan: Mengele, in the 1960s, had secluded several surrogate mothers in a Brazilian clinic and fertilised them with ova each carrying a sample of Hitler's DNA preserved since World War II.

Bodyguards during the inauguration of the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.

The Brazilian Aviation Regulation ( RBHA 103A ) defines an ultralight plane as: a very light manned experimental aircraft used mainly, or intended for, sports or recreation, during daylight, in visual conditions, with a maximum capacity of 2 people and with the following characteristics:

As Gil describes it, tropicália ( or Tropicalismo ) was a conflation of musical and cultural developments that had occurred in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s — primarily bossa nova and the Jovem Guarda ( Young Wave ) collective — with rock and roll music from the United States and Europe, a movement deemed threatening by the Brazilian government of the time.

Seeking a domestic aircraft manufacturer, the Brazilian government made several investments in this area during the 1940s and ' 50s, but it was not until 1969 that Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica ( Embraer ) was created as a government-owned corporation.

Brazilian Navy, battle of Riachuelo at the Paraguayan War.

* Brazilian War of Independence ( 1822 – 1824 ): Series of military campaigns that had as objective to cement Brazilian sovereignty and end Portuguese resistance.

* Platine War ( 1851 – 1852 ): The Brazilian Empire and its allies went to war against the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas of the Argentine Confederation.

* Uruguayan War ( 1864 – 1865 ): Brazilian intervention in Uruguay.

* Paraguayan War ( 1864 – 1870 ): Over 200, 000 Brazilians fought on this conflict, which is considered as the most serious in Brazilian history.

* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance ( Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina ) in the Paraguayan War.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, is an adaptation of pre – World War II judo developed by the brothers Carlos and Hélio Gracie, with a large focus on groundwork.

It is used to clear paths through the bush, and was used to fight against the Brazilian Empire in the Farrapos ' war ( War of Tatters ).

The country was slowly being repopulated by former Brazilian soldiers who had fought in the War of the Triple Alliance, and Paraguay's government encouraged European immigration.

The result was the Paraguayan War, a five-year conflict in which Uruguayan, Brazilian and Argentinian armies fought Paraguay, and which Flores finally won, but only at the price of the loss of 95 % of his own troops.

* January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital.

* December 6 – Paraguayan War – Battle of Itororó or Ytororó: Field-Marshal Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias leads 13, 000 Brazilian troops against a Paraguayan fortified position of 5, 000 troops.

It was evacuated near to the end of the Paraguayan War and soon after destroyed by Brazilian troops.

During the World War II, Brazil entered the war supporting the allies and its dictatorship along with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force ( FEB ) forced Palestra Italia ( and also Palestra Italia of Minas Gerais ) to change its name because of the reference to Italy.

Two huge murals by Brazilian artist Cândido Portinari, entitled Guerra e Paz ( War and Peace ) are located at the delegates hall.

The reason behind that is that the Brazilian Code of 1916 was the last of the important codes from the era of codifications in the world that had strong liberal influences, and all other codes enacted thereafter were deeply influenced by the social ideals that emerged after World War I and the Soviet Socialist Revolution.

He also faced other obstacles ; the unsuccessful Cisplatine War against the neighboring United Provinces of South America led to the secession of a Brazilian province ( later to become Uruguay ) in 1828.