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"Events › By topic › Exploration"}}, {"year": 1507, "year_label": "1507 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio (\"Introduction to Universal Cosmography\") and accompanying wall map, the first to show the Americas as a separate continent, naming them in honour of Amerigo Vespucci, his friend and idol.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367240730#April–June", "title": "1507", "revid": 1367240730, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1512, "year_label": "1512 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, after whom the Americas are named (b. 1451)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323795843#Deaths", "title": "1512", "revid": 1323795843, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1551, "year_label": "1551 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – The National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima in the Viceroyalty of Peru, being the first officially established university in the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352783865#April–June", "title": "1551", "revid": 1352783865, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1551, "year_label": "1551 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 21", "text": "September 21 – The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico is founded in Mexico City (Mexico), being the second officially established university in the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352783865#July–September", "title": "1551", "revid": 1352783865, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1577, "year_label": "1577 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – Francis Drake leaves Plymouth, England, aboard the Pelican, with four other ships and 164 men, on an expedition against the Spanish, along the Pacific coast of the Americas, which will become his circumnavigation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361323001#October–December", "title": "1577", "revid": 1361323001, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1633, "year_label": "1633 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Mission San Luis de Apalachee is built in the New World by two Spanish friars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369169348#Date_unknown", "title": "1633", "revid": 1369169348, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1663, "year_label": "1663 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Publication at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the \"Eliot Indian Bible\" (Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God), which becomes the first complete Bible published in the Americas, a translation by English-born Puritan missionary John Eliot of the Geneva Bible, from English into the Massachusett language (Natic or Wômpanâak) variety of the Algonquian languages.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988068#Date_unknown", "title": "1663", "revid": 1365988068, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Construction work is completed on the Citadelle Laferrière in Haiti, the largest fortification in the Americas, built on the orders of Henri Christophe to defend the country against potential French reoccupation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#Date_unknown", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "In or about this year, one person returning to Haiti from the Congo is thought to have first brought HIV to the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#Date_unknown", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 29", "text": "April 29 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#April", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › April"}}]}