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Hundreds of thousands of people all over Brazil protest against corruption and denounce the government of President Dilma Rousseff. [309] 9 June: A bus plunges over a ravine in Brazil's São Paulo state, resulting in at least 18 people killed and 28 injured. [310] 5–21 August: The 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro. [311] 31 August
Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...
In 2009, Brazil's economic rise was temporarily halted by the worldwide financial crisis, forcing the government to implement a temporary tax relief policy in strategic segments of the economy like automobiles and construction. These measures helped the country prevent a long-term recession and ensured a quick recovery to Brazil's economic ...
This is a list of wars involving the Federative Republic of Brazil and its predecessor states, from 1815 to the present day. United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822) [ edit ]
Brazil’s Federal Council of Medicine said the loss of the doctors left Brazil’s medical world in mourning, and expressed its solidarity for the victims' friends and relatives. They were ...
9 July – 2024 Brazil wildfires: Wildfires burn 760,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of the Pantanal, destroying over 4% of Brazil's largest wetland. [ 23 ] 17 July – A massive fishkill suspected to have been caused by the dumping of industrial waste from a sugar and ethanol plant results in the deaths of between 10-20 tons of fish in the ...
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... 1 Colonial Brazil (1500–1822) 2 Empire of Brazil (1822–1889) 3 Republic (1889 ...
May 3: Brazil reaches the 100,000 mark of confirmed COVID-19 cases. [31] May 15: Nelson Teich resigns as the Minister of Health. [32] May 16: General Eduardo Pazuello assumes the position of Health Minister. [33] May 22: With over 330,000 infections, Brazil overtakes Russia to become the second country with the highest confirmed number of COVID ...