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The Treaty of Tordesillas, [a] signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 600 kilometres (370 mi) west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
Brazil–Spain relations are the ... representatives of the monarchs of Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 which divided between both ...
The Treaty of Madrid (also known as the Treaty of Limits of the Conquests) [1] was an agreement concluded between Spain and Portugal on 13 January 1750. In an effort to end decades of conflict in the region of present-day Uruguay, the treaty established detailed territorial boundaries between Portuguese Brazil and the Spanish colonial territories to the south and west.
The Tordesillas Meridian divided South America into two parts, leaving a large chunk of land to be exploited by the Spaniards. The Treaty of Tordesillas has been called the earliest document in Brazilian history, [10] since it determined that part of South America would be settled by Portugal instead of Spain. The Treaty of Tordesillas was an ...
Of these agreements signed at a distance from the assigned land, the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) is the most important, for defining the portions of the globe that would belong to Portugal during the period in which Brazil was a Portuguese colony.
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), signed between Spain and Portugal to distribute the lands discovered and "to be discovered", defined the course of the history of the "future" Brazil. [ Note 2 ] Still, Africans became a substantial section of the Brazilian population, and long before the end of slavery (1888) they had begun to merge with the ...
1494 — The Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Spain divided the world into two parts, Spain claiming all non-Christian lands west of a north–south line 370 leagues west of the Azores, Portugal claiming all non-Christian lands east of that line. 1495 — Voyage of João Fernandes, the Farmer, and Pedro Barcelos to Greenland.
The Cantino planisphere of 1502 shows the line of the Treaty of Tordesillas. An important but unanticipated effect of this papal bull and the Treaty of Tordesillas was that nearly all the Pacific Ocean and the west coast of North America were given to Spain. King John II naturally declined to enter into a hopeless competition at Rome, and ...