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Marquis of Pombal
The Marquis of Pombal, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, was chief minister of Portugal under King Joseph I from 1750 to 1777. He led the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake and pursued sweeping reforms, expelling the Jesuits in 1759. In Brazil he created monopoly trading companies and in 1751 reorganised the north as the State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão.
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