{"slug": "new-world", "label": "New World", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127834", "qid": "Q127834", "description": "collective term for the Americas and Oceania", "entries": 24, "years": 21, "span": [1493, 1709], "span_label": ["1493 CE", "1709 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 12}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "christopher-columbus", "label": "Christopher Columbus", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "hispaniola", "label": "Hispaniola", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "dominican-republic", "label": "Dominican Republic", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "peru", "label": "Peru", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "santo-domingo", "label": "Santo Domingo", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "portugal", "label": "Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "honduras", "label": "Honduras", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "costa-rica", "label": "Costa Rica", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-alexander-vi", "label": "Pope Alexander VI", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1493, "year_label": "1493 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – The first Roman Catholic Mass in the New World is celebrated, with Friar Juan Pérez of the Order of Friars Minor conducting the services at Point Concepcion on the island of Hispaniola.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631093#October–December", "title": "1493", "revid": 1371631093, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1493, "year_label": "1493 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 25", "text": "June 25 – Friar Bernardo Buil, a Catalan monk in Spain, is appointed by Pope Alexander VI as the first Christian \"Vicar Apostolic of the New World\". Friar Buil will depart from Cadiz on September 25 on the second voyage of Christopher Columbus, and will begin his mission at La Isabela, a Spanish settlement on the island of Hispanola in what becomes the Dominican Republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631093#April–June", "title": "1493", "revid": 1371631093, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1494, "year_label": "1494 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 7", "text": "June 7 – Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the New World between themselves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353371082#April–June", "title": "1494", "revid": 1353371082, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1495, "year_label": "1495 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – The first military combat between the Old World and the New World takes place at the Battle of Vega Real. In his role as the Spanish Governor of Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus and his ally, the Taino Chief (cacique) Guacanagaríx of Marién and begin a war of retaliation against the cacique Caonabo of Maguana, who had led the 1493 massacre of the Spanish colonists at La Navidad.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365256979#January–March", "title": "1495", "revid": 1365256979, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1496, "year_label": "1496 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, formally founds the city of Santo Domingo (first settled in March) on Hispaniola (in the modern-day Dominican Republic), making it the oldest permanent European settlement in the New World.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631969#July–September", "title": "1496", "revid": 1371631969, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1497, "year_label": "1497 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz, for his first voyage to the New World. The account of a voyage (lasting until October 15, 1498) is doubted because the only mention of it is in a letter written six years later, and the course described would have traveled across the land of Mexico and into the Pacific Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372862240#April–June", "title": "1497", "revid": 1372862240, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1499, "year_label": "1499 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Pedro Alonso Niño, who had accompanied Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492, departs from Palos in Spain toward South America on a 7-month voyage to the New World. Niño sets sail in a small caravel with 33 men", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369343359#April–June", "title": "1499", "revid": 1369343359, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1502, "year_label": "1502 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The first African slaves brought to the New World arrive at the island of Hispaniola (modern-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367622674#Date_unknown", "title": "1502", "revid": 1367622674, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1502, "year_label": "1502 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz in Spain for his fourth and final trip to the New World, taking with him 147 men on his flagship, Capitana and the companion ships Gallega, Vizcaína, and Santiago de Palos. He explores Central America, and discovers the Isthmus of Panama and the land now occupied by Honduras, and Costa Rica, and possibly the island of St. Lucia as well", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367622674#April–June", "title": "1502", "revid": 1367622674, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1503, "year_label": "1503 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 20", "text": "January 20 – Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive rights to trade with the New World.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366510845#January–March", "title": "1503", "revid": 1366510845, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1503, "year_label": "1503 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – Queen Isabella I of Spain issues an edict prohibiting violence against indigenous peoples in the New World.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366510845#October–December", "title": "1503", "revid": 1366510845, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1519, "year_label": "1519 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "A large pandemic spreads from the Greater Antilles into Central America, and perhaps as far as Peru in South America. This widespread epidemic kills off much of the indigenous populations in these areas (the first widely documented epidemic in the New World).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365433723#Date_unknown", "title": "1519", "revid": 1365433723, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1522, "year_label": "1522 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 –Pope Adrian VI, at the request of Spanish Emperor Carlos V, promulgates the papal bull Exponi nobis, allowing members of mendicant orders in the New World to exercise \"almost all episcopal authority\" when the closest Roman Catholic diocesan bishop is more than two days of travel away.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372799978#April–June", "title": "1522", "revid": 1372799978, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1524, "year_label": "1524 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World, to seek out a western sea route to the Pacific Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819061#January–March", "title": "1524", "revid": 1368819061, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1537, "year_label": "1537 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 2", "text": "June 2 – Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls, who must not be enslaved or robbed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362632656#April–June", "title": "1537", "revid": 1362632656, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1538, "year_label": "1538 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – The first university of the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is founded on the island of Hispaniola in Santo Domingo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561127#October–December", "title": "1538", "revid": 1369561127, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1555, "year_label": "1555 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, a translation into English of parts of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's De orbe novo decades, the Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés work Natural hystoria de las Indias and others, urging his countrymen to follow the lead of Spain in exploring the New World; the work includes the first recorded use in English of the country name 'China'.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561106#Date_unknown", "title": "1555", "revid": 1369561106, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1573, "year_label": "1573 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The first Spanish galleon, laden with silver for the porcelain and silk trade with the Ming Dynasty of China, lands at Manila in the Philippines. This occasion marks the beginning of the Spanish silver trade to China, that will trump that of the Portuguese, the latter of whom acted as an intermediary between the silver mines of Japan, and the luxury items in China to be purchased with that silver. Most of the silver entering China comes from what is now Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru in the New World.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656331#Date_unknown", "title": "1573", "revid": 1366656331, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1607, "year_label": "1607 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – The ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine. English colonists establish Fort St. George, also known as the Popham Colony. The settlement lasts little more than a year, before residents return to England in the first oceangoing ship built in the New World, a 30-ton pinnace called The Virginia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358831090#July–September", "title": "1607", "revid": 1358831090, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1614, "year_label": "1614 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – The States General of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands authorizes an exclusive monopoly for trade in the New World, providing for the winning company to be able to make four voyages to the eastern coast of North America between 40° N and 45° N, encompassing the area that becomes the U.S. state of New Jersey. The New Netherland Company receives the exclusive patent, effective January 1, 1615.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372816433#January–March", "title": "1614", "revid": 1372816433, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 19", "text": "March 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English explorer of the New World, is released from prison in the Tower of London, where he has been imprisoned for treason, in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition, in search of El Dorado in South America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#March-April", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › March-April"}}, {"year": 1630, "year_label": "1630 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – Passengers of the Arbella, including Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the New World at Salem, Massachusetts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351974391#April–June", "title": "1630", "revid": 1351974391, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1636, "year_label": "1636 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The first synagogue of the New World, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, is founded in Recife by the Dutch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358525522#Date_unknown", "title": "1636", "revid": 1358525522, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – The first influx into Britain of poor refugee families of German Palatines from the Rhenish Palatinate arrives in England. Most of them are Protestants en route to the New World colonies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#April–June", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}