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The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
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1494 treaty dividing the unclaimed world between Spanish and Portuguese sovereignty
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