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In 1500, the Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral landed in Brazil and claimed it for his own country.

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Its discovery by the Portuguese came eight years later, on April 22nd 1500, and by accident, when a fleet commanded by Pedro Alvares Cabral and bound for India was blown off course.

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