The governing dynasty, the Braganza, flees to colonial Brazil under British protection.

"It is the largest secular stone construction from colonial Brazil," said Mr. Peters.

He became the most important Baroque poet in colonial Brazil for his religious and satirical works.

Inheritance laws were complex in colonial Brazil.

Wiznitzer, Arnold, Jews in colonial Brazil, Columbia University Press, 1960.

The Inconfidência Mineira was not the only rebellious movement in colonial Brazil against the Portuguese.

However, the exact physical location of the house were he lived is uncertain, because Yapeyú had been devastated in 1817 by a Portuguese raid from colonial Brazil.

The mocambos (from mocambo, literally Huts) were village-sized communities mainly of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil, during the Portuguese rule.

His work helped establish Neoclassical architecture in Portugal and colonial Brazil.

However, the Royal Family and the bulk of the kingdom's administration fled to colonial Brazil, in a move to preserve Portuguese sovereignty.