Portuguese Butterfly

This is quite an experiment I wanted to give a try, choosing PODs that would have a greater impact in the world. Welcome to Just a Normal World, where things doesn't had changed very much. The timeline focuses on a Greater Portugal, an early independent Brazil, and the World afterwards.

Numerous points of the history

 * 1) Netherlands and Portugal reaches into terms of the Dutch-Portuguese War, while Netherlands inherits the Northeastern Brazil, the Portuguese gets the Territory of Paramaribo.
 * 2) The Minas Gerais Conspiracy (portuguese: Inconfidência Mineira), a separatist movement nearly inspired by the Age of Enlightment and the American Independence, gets a wider influence on the Portuguese colony of Brazil, which leads to a massive war in the territory, converted into a civil war between legalist captaincies of Grão-Pará and Mato Grosso, and the separatist Free State of Brazil. The war had the intervention of the United Kingdom to mediate the conflict. Portugal stays with Grão-Pará and portion of Mato Grosso, while Brazil acquires the rest of the colony.
 * 3) During the Napoleonic Wars, Portugal is invaded by the sea, and Lisbon is partially destroyed. The Portuguese court manages to flee to Belém. After the capitulation of Portugal, the Iberian Union was restored by Joseph Bonaparte, until his abdiction. The Treaty of Vienna gave Portugal benefits in retribution for the partial destruction of Lisbon, the british and french colonies of Guyana.
 * 4) Peter I declares independence of Grão-Pará (like OTL Brazil). After his death and abdiction to his son, due to the dissatisfaction of the regency government, members of the Paraensian General Assembly organize a coup d'etat, creating the Confederacy of Grão-Pará, recognized initially by Brazil.
 * 5) Due to a great relationship with the United Kingdom, during the Berlin Confederence, the British grants to Portugal the territories of Angola, Mozambique, Kongo, and Zambezi (OTL Rhodesia). The treaty creates an instability with the French and Belgian governments.
 * 6) Russia is a colonial power in the period by colonizing the OTL Alaska, British Columbia and US Northwestern states (Idaho, Oregon and Washington), becoming the countries of Alaska and Cascatia. In Africa, Russia received the colonies of current parts of Eritrea and Somalia, contesting about receive the Egypt territory, which belonged to the United Kingdom.
 * 7) In the early 1890's, the Great War breaks between the Great Alliance (United Kingdom, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Spain and the Russian Empire) against the Perpetual Union (France, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Ottoman Empire). The war ended in 1895, after the rendition of the French in Alger. The Treaty of Berlin reparted most of the French colonies in Africa between the members of the Greater Alliance.
 * 8) The First War and the Interwar Period are almost the same as OTL, with Great Depression.
 * 9) In 1939, Ernst Thälmann escaped from the Nazi Germany, exiled in the Soviet Union. In 1943, along with German partisans, financed by the Allied Powers, Thälmann starts a civil war in Germany, destabilizing the region until the arrival of the Soviet soldiers in Berlin. The civil war prolonged in 1945, with a coup d'état by the part of the under-the-table Communist Party of Germany.
 * 10) In 1955, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia forms the Socialist Federal Balkanic Republic (commonly called The Balkans). Albania would eventually be inherited. In the 90's, Albania would become independent again, and the Balkanic Republic install a democratic regime.
 * 11) During the late 80's, Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds on put the Perestroika in force in the USSR. The Baltic States gets independent. The Soviet Union starts the liberalization process, despite the major force in the Union be the Communist Party.