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What happened to the Jews in Brazil

28 events, 1548 AD to 1980 AD

Regions in Brazil

Cities, towns and sites in Brazil

Timeline

16th century

  1. 1548 AD Jews banished to Brazil by the Portuguese Inquisition · Brazil
  2. 1567–1568 AD Edicts forbidding Maranos to settle in Brazil · Brazil
  3. 1577 AD Marano settlement ban repealed in Brazil · Brazil
  4. 1591–1595 AD Inquisition visitation to Bahia · Bahia, Brazil
  5. 1593–1595 AD Inquisition visitation to Pernambuco · Pernambuco, Brazil

17th century

  1. 1618 AD Inquisition orders list of New Christians in Brazil · Brazil
  2. 1618–1619 AD Second Inquisition visitation indicts 134 in Bahia · Bahia, Brazil
  3. 1623 AD Dutch proclamation of religious liberty at Bahia · Bahia, Brazil
  4. 1625 AD New Christians abandoned and executed after Portuguese recapture of Bahia · Bahia, Brazil
  5. c. 1627 AD Inquisition visitation to the Southeast · Southeast Brazil, Brazil
  6. c. 1645–1654 AD Jewish prisoners hanged or sent to Lisbon during Portuguese reconquest · Pernambuco, Brazil
  7. 1646 AD 1646 Inquiry into Portuguese of Jewish descent in Bahia · Bahia, Brazil
  8. 1646 AD Isaac de Castro Tartas seized at Bahia and burned by the Inquisition · Bahia, Brazil and elsewhere
  9. 1646 AD Isaac de Castro Tartas seized, tried and burnt · Bahia, Brazil and elsewhere
  10. 1647 AD Isaac de Castro Tartas sent from Brazil to Lisbon · Brazil
  11. 1654 AD Portuguese exile Jews from Brazil · Brazil
  12. 1682–1707 AD Portugal banishes reconciled Maranos to Brazil · Brazil

18th century

  1. 1702 AD Inquisition persecution of Maranos begins in Rio de Janeiro · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  2. c. 1750 AD Transportation of New Christians from Bahia to Lisbon for trial · Bahia, Brazil
  3. 1763 AD Inquisition visitation to Grão-Pará (1763) · Pará, Brazil
  4. c. 1765 AD Pombal's laws remove disabilities from New Christians · Brazil
  5. 1769 AD Inquisition visitation to Grão-Pará (1769) · Pará, Brazil
  6. 1773 AD Pombal abolishes distinction between New and Old Christians · Brazil

19th century

  1. 1891 AD Brazilian republican constitution abolishes religious discrimination · Brazil

20th century

  1. c. 1930–1949 AD Brazil restricts immigration of Jewish refugees from Europe · Brazil
  2. c. 1934 AD Secret Brazilian order to reject Jewish visa applications · Brazil
  3. 1937–1939 AD Vargas regime restricts Jewish immigration to Brazil · Brazil
  4. 1980 AD Government report accuses Jewish community over nuclear agreement · Brazil

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