On this day · June 7
June 7: the history they never taught you.
2 stories from the archive happened on this date—each drawn from published sources before it was written.
1494
A Pen Stroke Split the World and Made Brazil
A Spanish bishop who never left Europe carved up the entire planet with a pen stroke—and in the process created Brazil.
1494
How a Mapmaker Quietly Expanded Brazil's Border
A single misplaced line on a map nearly started a war between two empires—and the man who drew it had never left his study.
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