ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Ceara </title> <META name="keywords" keyword=""> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2005-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> History of Ceara <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xceara.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xceara.html"> <img src = "../banners/banceara.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xbrazil.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> History of Brazil </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on October 25th 2005 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Ceara (Brazil) </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1499 <BR> 1549 <BR> 1637-1644 <BR> 1649 <BR> 1654 <BR> 1726 <BR> 1799 <BR> 1822 <BR> 1823 <BR> 1824 <BR> 1854 <BR> 1872 <BR> 1873 <BR> 1884 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1890 <BR> 1915 <BR> 1920 <BR> 1922 <BR> 1940 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1967 <BR> 1980 <BR> 1995 <BR> 2000 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Alonso de Ojeda first European to sight coast of Ceara <BR> Portuguese Captaincy of Ceara existed <BR> Dutch occupation <BR> construction, fortification of Fort Schoonenborch (Fortaleza) by the Dutch <BR> expulsion of the Dutch <BR> Fortaleza granted status of 'vila' (town) <BR> Captaincy of Ceara detached from Captaincy of Pernambuco <BR> Brazilian independence; status of Ceara elevated from captaincy to province <BR> Fortaleza granted the status of 'cidade' (city) <BR> Ceara joined short-lived Confederation of Equador <BR> Diocesis of Ceara detached from Olinda <BR> Census : population of Ceara 721,000 <BR> Railway from Fortaleza to Porongaba opened <BR> Ceara abolished slavery <BR> Brazil republic; status of Ceara elevated from province to state <BR> Census : population of Ceara 805,000 <BR> Census : population of Ceara 1,319,000 <BR> Diocesis of (Ceara) Fortaleza elevated to archdiocesis <BR> First flag adopted <BR> Census : population of Ceara 2,091,000 <BR> Large-scale Oros dam completed <BR> Census : population of Ceara 3,296,000 <BR> Present flag adopted <BR> Census : population of Ceara 5,288,000 <BR> construction of Castanhao dam begun <BR> Census : population of Ceara 7,417,000 <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Article Ceara, from Wikipedia (<A HREF = "http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear%C3%A1"><B>Port.</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear%C3%A1"><B>Engl.</B></A> <BR> Article <A HREF = "http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confedera%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_Equador"><B>Confedera&ccedil;ao de Equador</B></A>, from Wikipedia Port. <BR> Article Fortaleza, from Wikipedia <A HREF = "http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortaleza_%28Cear%C3%A1%29"><B>Port.</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortaleza"><B>Engl.</B></A> <BR> Brazil States, from <A HREF = "http://www.statoids.com/ubr.html"><B>www.statoids.com</B></A> <BR> Chronology of Catholic Dioceses, from <A HREF = "http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/kronologi/brazil.htm"><B>Kirken i Norge</B></A> <BR> Historical Population Statistics : Brazil, by province, from <A HREF = "http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/Americas/brazilp.htm"><B> Population Statistics</B></A>, at Univ. Utrecht <BR> Flag of Ceara, from <A HREF = "http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/br-ce.html"><B>FOTW</B></A> <BR> A Brief History of the Brazilian Railways, by <A HREF = "http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2376/e_hist.htm"><B>The Brazilian Trains Reference Page</B></A>, posted by Fapinto <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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