Discovery of Brazil by Portuguese; discovery of Portuguese by Brazilians.

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On this day in 1500, the Portuguese under Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil. Brazil had been discovered about four months earlier by the Spaniard Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, but History has ruled that his discovery did not count. It had also been discovered about 11,000 years before Pinzón by people who were still living there when the Europeans arrived, but they did not count either. History has very exacting standards for discovery.