Havelange served as the chef de mission of the Brazilian delegation at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne.

The largest Brazilian delegation ever consisted of 243 athletes ( 124 men and 119 women ), which represented 38 more athletes than in Sydney 2000 and 18 more than in Atlanta 1996 — the previous record.

Historians ascribe that diplomatic success to the efforts and dilligence of the Brazilian Government's representative, the Baron of Rio Branco, appointed by Morais to lead the Brazilian delegation in the arbitration process.

He participated with the Brazilian delegation of the " First International Festival de Artes Negras " in Dakar, Senegal ( 1966 ), bringing with him João Grande, João Pequeno, Gato Preto, Gildo Alfinete, Roberto Satanás and Camafeu de Oxossi.

He was the 1958 FIFA World Cup Brazilian delegation chief, and was known as " Marechal da Vitória " ( Marshal of Victory ).

Since by this time Real Madrid and Juventus also started sniffing around Pelé in an attempt to bring him to Europe for the first time, the Cosmos delegation used the possibility of making soccer big in a country new to the sport as their main lure and by the end of the day, the Brazilian agreed in principle to come to New York.

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

A strong Brazilian influence was also exercised by the Jesuits in religion and education.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

The discovery was made public at a recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society in Rio de Janeiro.

It was supported by the city of Porto Alegre ( where it took place ) and the Brazilian Worker's Party.

* Proclamation of the Republic ( 1889 ): End of the Brazilian Empire, this was the first coup d ' état performed by the Brazilian military.

The Foch upon entering service with the Brazilian Navy, was renamed the São Paulo.

In 1944 the Brazilian Air Force joined Allied forces in Italy and operated there for about seven months, this was the FAB baptism in a real conflict.

A Brazilian child was never automatically identified with the racial type of one or both parents, nor were there only two categories to choose from.

It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native influences, probably beginning in the 16th century.

At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.

In little time, in 1890, the recently proclaimed Brazilian Republic decreed the prohibition of capoeira in the whole country, as things were pretty chaotic in the Brazilian capital and many police reports would demonstrate that capoeira was an undeserved advantage in a fight.

As the word Capoeira was still forbidden by Brazilian law, Bimba called his new style Luta Regional Baiana ( meaning regional fight from Bahia ).

Mestre Bimba made a lot of presentations of his new style, but the most well known was the one made at 1953 to Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas, where the president would say: " A Capoeira é o único esporte verdadeiramente nacional " ( Capoeira is the only truly national sport ).

The Southern Cross was included in the lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem ( 1909 ): " A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece " (" the image of the Cross shines ").

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

The disease was named after the Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, but the disease was not seen as a major public health problem in humans until the 1960s ( the outbreak of Chagas disease in Brazil in the 1920s went widely ignored ).

It was not until 1971 that the Brazilian Association of Canchim Cattle Breeders ( ABCCAN ) was formed, and on 11 November 1972 the Herd Book was initiated.

The Brazilian Integralists led by Plínio Salgado, claimed as many as 200, 000 members although following coup attempts it faced a crackdown from the Estado Novo of Getúlio Vargas in 1937.

Brazilian forces led the United Nations peacekeeping troops in Haiti composed of United States, France, Canada, and Chile deployments.

The worldwide spread of judo has led to the development of a number of offshoots such as Sambo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Unlike the Spanish colonies, the Brazilian independence came as a indirect consequence of the Napolionioc Invasions to Portugal-French invasion under General Junot led to the capture of Lisbon on 8 December 1807.

Later bandleaders pioneered the performance of various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles with the traditional big band instrumentation, and big bands led by arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane ( on the album Ascension from 1965 ) and electric bassist Jaco Pastorius introduced cool jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, respectively, to the big band domain.

The WSF was sponsored, in part, by the Porto Alegre government, led by the Brazilian Worker's Party ( PT ).

France was led by a rejuvenated Zinédine Zidane and by a strong defence which kept the Brazilian strikers under check for the duration of the game.

The Brazilian team, led by Carlos Alberto, and featuring Pelé, Clodoaldo, Gérson, Jairzinho, Rivelino, and Tostão, is often regarded as the greatest World Cup team ever.

At the Brazilian GP, Montoya led home McLaren's first 1-2 result in years, ahead of newly crowned world champion Fernando Alonso in third.

In the 1960s, the standard of quality of Palmeiras play – led by the one who would come to symbolize this period of soccer excellence, Ademir de Guia – led the Palestra Italia team to be called the " Academy " of Brazilian football.

In 1986, manager Pepe led the club to its second Brazilian Championship title, defeating Guarani in a penalty shoot-out.

Muricy Ramalho was signed up as the new coach, having led Internacional to the runners-up position in the 2005 Brazilian Championship.

Somewhat rooted in the Portuguese integralist tradition, the Brazilian integralist movement led by Plínio Salgado-Ação Integralista Brasileira-became the largest political party ever found in Brazil, with over a million members, even though it lasted less than six years as a legal recognized organization.

Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the Brazilian group in 1996.

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.

The state of São Paulo, with its relatively large capital-base, large immigrant population from Southern and Eastern Europe, and wealth of natural resources, led the trend, eclipsing Rio de Janeiro as center of Brazilian industry.

These were the government led by Lula's Workers ' Party in Brazil which also involves the Brazilian Republican Party and the Liberal Party, and the 1964 coalition between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party ( LSSP ) in Ceylon.

The company faced its worst crisis in 2004, which led to the suspension of service to many Brazilian cities and the cancellation of flights.

Although Brazil was technically neutral, this increasing cooperation with the Allies led the Brazilian government to announce at the Pan American States Conference in Rio on 28 January 1942 its decision to sever diplomatic relations with Germany, Japan, and Italy.

The sinkings were the main reason that led the Brazilian government to declare war against the Axis.

Berlin Radio pronouncements led to increasing nervousness among the Brazilian population.

A revolutionary forerunner of Che Guevara, Prestes led the legendary but futile " Long March " through the rural Brazilian interior following his participation in the failed 1922 tenente rebellion against the coffee oligarchs.

This confluence of faiths during the Portuguese colonization of Brazil led to the development of a diverse array of syncretistic practices within the overarching umbrella of Brazilian Roman Catholicism, characterized by traditional Portuguese festivities.