Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, João Guimarães Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Graciliano Ramos, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Cecília Meireles, Clarice Lispector, José de Alencar, Rachel de Queiroz, Jorge Amado, Castro Alves, Antonio Candido, Autran Dourado, Rubem Fonseca, Lygia Fagundes Telles and Euclides da Cunha are Brazilian writers recognized for writing the most outstanding work in the Portuguese language.

* João Cabral de Melo Neto, a Brazilian poet

The map is particularly notable for portraying a fragmentary record of the Brazilian coast, discovered in 1500 by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, and for depicting the African coast of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with a remarkable accuracy and detail.

Brazil had been discovered in April 1500 by a fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral on behalf of the Portuguese crown, which arrived in present-day Porto Seguro, Bahia, but except for Salvador ( the first Brazilian capital city ) the rest of the new territory still remained largely unexplored half a century later.

João Cabral de Melo Neto ( 9 January 1920 – 9 October 1999 ) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat.

Speakers included Mary Robinson ( former President of Ireland and former High Commissioner for Human Rights ), Ana Cabral ( Minister of human rights in the Brazilian government ), Frederico Villegas ( Head of Human Rights for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina ) and Dianela Pi ( First secretary of the Uruguayan mission to the UN ), and leading lights from UNAIDS and other NGOs.

After the discovery of Brazil by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, the Portuguese crown sent out a follow-up mapping expedition in 1501 to explore the Brazilian coast.

* Fundação Dom Cabral, a Brazilian business school

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

Palmeira on Sal supplies fuel for the main airport on the island, Amílcar Cabral International Airport, and is important for the hotel construction taking place on the island.

In 1956, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) was organized clandestinely by Amílcar Cabral and Rafael Barbosa.

The fight for independence began in 1956, when Amílcar Cabral founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (), the PAIGC.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

* 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies.

* 1500: Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.

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

* January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.

Cabral blamed the Zamorin for the incident and bombarded the city.

He then appeared before Calicut, demanding redress for the treatment meted out to Cabral.

and old AZ striker Graziano Pellè and exhanged Jerson Cabral for FC Twente striker Wesley Verhoek, no fee was involved within this trade.

Pedro Álvares Cabral reached Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.

Although the nationalist movement appeared less fervent in Cape Verde than in Portugal's other African holdings, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC, acronym for the Portuguese Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde ) was founded in 1956 by Amílcar Cabral and other pan-Africanists, and many Cape Verdeans fought for independence in Guinea-Bissau.

* Denison Cabral ( born 1974 ), midfielder for the Baltimore Blast

The Portuguese Pedro Álvares Cabral landed at what is now Porto Seguro City, on the southern coast of Bahia in 1500, and claimed the territory for Portugal.

Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal.

As the new land was within the Portuguese sphere according to the Treaty of Tordesillas, Cabral claimed it for the Portuguese Crown.

Cabral took vengeance by looting and burning the Arab fleet and then bombarded the city in retaliation for its ruler having failed to explain the unexpected attack.

On 15 February 1500, Cabral was appointed Capitão-mor ( literally Major-Captain, or commander-in-chief ) of a fleet sailing for India.

The historian Malyn Newitt subscribes to some sort of ulterior maneuvering and has said that the choice of Cabral " was a deliberate attempt to balance the interests of rival factions of noble families, for he appears to have no other quality to recommend him and no known experience in commanding major expeditions.

In exchange for leading the fleet, Cabral was entitled to 10, 000 cruzados ( an old Portuguese currency equivalent to approximately 35 kg of gold ) and the right to purchase of pepper at his own expense for transport back to Europe.

* In 1922, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho were the first to cross the South Atlantic in an airship.

Historians generally credit João Faras-astronomer and physician of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500-for being the first European to depict it correctly.

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated in Conakry in 1973, and party leadership fell to Aristides Pereira, who later became the first president of the Republic of Cape Verde.

As his brother Amílcar Cabral had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on September 10, 1974.

Circa 1627, during the first war with Tibet, Portuguese Jesuits Estêvão Cacella and João Cabral were the first recorded Europeans to visit Bhutan on their way to Tibet.

As in the first contact, the meeting was friendly and Cabral presented the locals with gifts.

On 26 April, as more and more curious and friendly natives appeared, Cabral ordered his men to build an altar inland where a Christian Mass was held — the first celebrated on the soil of what would later become Brazil.

The regime of city management started when Fructuoso Velásquez was named by the Cabildo of Buenos Aires as Mayor of the Brethrem in 1805 ; after the regime was modified, the first city counsellor was Silvestre Cabral in 1822. after the first corporative city hall was established, with limited authority the first counsellor and president of the city hall was Juan Antonio Cascallares in 1856.

The first flight over the south Atlantic was made by Portuguese naval pilots Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922, from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral ( 11 April 1931 – 30 May 2009 ) was the first President of Guinea-Bissau.

Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal.

It includes swamp areas, salt marshes, river marshes and a coastline around the rocky, high and round hill, considered the first point of land to be seen by the Portuguese traveler Pedro Álvares Cabral ’ s crew.

* March 13 – Portuguese pilots Captain Gago Coutinho and Captain Sacadura Cabral leave Lisbon to attempt the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.

The Cabral Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm, first presented by Regis Cabral as ten points in 1990, has been influential in the management of science parks around the world and lays down the following conditions for a property development to be considered a science park.

When the discoverers, under Pedro Álvares Cabral, first officially touched land in South America on April 22, 1500, they thought they had found an island, as reflected in the chosen name.

As his brother Amílcar had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on September 10, 1974.

Luís Cabral, brother of Amílcar, became the country's first president.