1450:Start of Atlantic slave trade, with the trans­porta­tion of enslaved African peo­ple through the Atlantic by the Portuguese.
1500: Pedro Alves Cabral, a Por­tuguese explorer, claims the land that became Brasil for the Por­tuguese crown. The Por­tuguese rapidly start trans­port­ing enslaved African peo­ple to the new colony. 1500 Pedro Alves Cabral, a Por­tuguese explorer, claims the land that became Brasil for the Por­tuguese crown. The Por­tuguese rapidly start trans­port­ing enslaved African peo­ple to the new colony.
1600: The Quilom­bos dos Pal­mares is estab­lished in the state of Alag�as. A quilom­bos is one of the com­mu­ni­ties of escaped slaves. The need for secrecy means it is impos­si­ble to give a def­i­nite date that this com­mu­nity started.
1695: After many attempts, the Quilom­bos de Pal­mares is stormed and resis­tance is finally ended with the cap­ture and exe­cu­tion of leader of Pal­mares King Zumbi.
1793: Is the year offi­cially rec­og­nized as the begin­ning of the end of the inter­na­tional slave trade. The UN com­mem­o­ra­tion of the end of slav­ery marks the anniver­sary of the rebel­lion and sub­se­quent found­ing of a repub­lic in Haiti
1807: The trade in slaves was out­lawed in UK and USA. This did not apply to those peo­ple already liv­ing under slav­ery in these coun­tries. The agree­ment ‘on paper’ hap­pened on this date, but it took at least another 50 years for it to stop in practice.
1808: King Dom Joao VI arrived with his court flee­ing Napoleon’s occu­pa­tion of Por­tu­gal 1820’s Some of the ear­li­est descrip­tions of a more vio­lent Capoeira game date from this time — in let­ters, books and offi­cial records — using the name Capoeira and with some char­ac­ter­is­tics rec­og­niz­able from the game today.

1833: Slav­ery was abol­ished as in insti­tu­tion in the UK and USA and peo­ple liv­ing under cap­tiv­ity in those coun­tries were freed.
1835: A well-documented armed upris­ing in Sal­vador, Bahia led by the men of Sudanese, Mus­lim ori­gin, some­times known as ‘the males rebel­lion’. The rebels held the city for three days. This was an era of many rebel­lions and slaves began to orga­nize them­selves secretly at this time.
1840: Suc­cess­ful slave ship rebel­lion on board the Amis­tad. This story was dra­ma­tized by Steven Spiel­berg in his film ‘Amistad’
1888: Princess Isabel signs the Golden Law finally free­ing the slaves in Brasil, the last coun­try to abol­ish slavery.
1889: Vin­cente Fer­reira Pastinha (later Mestre) is born in Sal­vador, Start of Euro­pean immi­gra­tion to Brasil. Euro­peans were given pref­er­en­tial treat­ment over the freed Africans in terms of jobs and land rights.
1890: Brasil makes the tran­si­tion from monar­chy to repub­lic. Pres­i­dent Marechal Deodoro da Fon­seca passes Law 487, for­mally pro­hibit­ing African cul­tural expres­sion (includ­ing Capoeira). The Finance Min­is­ter, Ruy Bar­bosa, signed a res­o­lu­tion to ‘cleanse’ slav­ery from his country’s his­tory. This resulted in the burn­ing of the major­ity of offi­cial writ­ten infor­ma­tion about the Africans in Brasil.
1900: Manuel dos Reis Mechado (later Mestre Bimba) is born in Sal­vador, Bahia.
1932: Mestre Bimba opens his first Capoeira Regional Acad­emy — The Regional Phys­i­cal and Cul­tural Cen­tre. Offi­cial recog­ni­tion was given to Bimba’s acad­emy in 1936 — 1937 (avail­able sources give both dates). Sal­vador, Bahia.
1934: Law 487 was for­mally repealed. In prac­tice it had been relaxed over time.
1941: Mestre Pastinha founded O Cen­tro Esportivo de Capoeira de Angola no Pelour­inho in Sal­vador, Bahia.
1942: Brasil par­tic­i­pates in the Sec­ond World War
1940 — 1945: Ol�vio Bispo do San­tos founded a group in San­tos, Sao Paulo.
1956: The Cap­i­tal of Brasil moves to the newly formed city, Brasilia under the gov­ern­ment of the pres­i­dent Juscelino Kubitchech.
1961: Capoeira is intro­duced as an effi­cient fight­ing prac­tice to the Police Acad­emy of Gua­n­abara, Rio de Janeiro