📅 6 Yüni 1755
On 6 June 1755, a royal law declared Indigenous people in Grão-Pará and Maranhão free, including their persons, property, and commerce. This was a major legal change after generations of Indigenous...
📅 7 Yüni 1755
On 7 June 1755, a royal charter confirmed the Companhia Geral do Grão-Pará e Maranhão. The company received commercial privileges as the Crown sought to draw the northern region more tightly into...
📅 8 Mei 1758
On 8 May 1758, an alvará extended the 1755 laws on Indigenous freedom from Grão-Pará and Maranhão to the wider State of Brazil. The legal extension stated that Indigenous people were free subjects...
📅 17 Ougùstùs 1758
On 17 August 1758, the Crown extended the Diretório to Indigenous settlements throughout Brazil. The policy joined imperial occupation to cultural assimilation and labor administration. Its...
📅 3 Sèptèmber 1759
On 3 September 1759, the Portuguese Crown promulgated a law proscribing and expelling the Society of Jesus from Portugal and its overseas domains. In Brazil, Jesuits had held extensive mission estates...
📅 19 Sèptèmber 1761
On 19 September 1761, an alvará prohibited transporting enslaved Black people from ports in the Americas, Africa, and Asia to mainland Portugal and declared those who arrived there free after the...
