{"slug": "taino", "label": "Taíno", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210623", "qid": "Q210623", "description": "indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida", "entries": 8, "years": 6, "span": [650, 1511], "span_label": ["650 CE", "1511 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "puerto-rico", "label": "Puerto Rico", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "juan-ponce-de-leon", "label": "Juan Ponce de León", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "christopher-columbus", "label": "Christopher Columbus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "jamaica", "label": "Jamaica", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-world", "label": "New World", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hispaniola", "label": "Hispaniola", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "santo-domingo", "label": "Santo Domingo", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 650, "year_label": "650 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Jamaica is settled by the Ostinoid people, ancestors of the Taíno. They were farmers, potters, and villagers with socially complex societies. These people lived near the coast and extensively hunted turtles and fish.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804422#Americas", "title": "650", "revid": 1340804422, "section": "Events › By place › Americas"}}, {"year": 1000, "year_label": "1000 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The Taíno have become the dominant culture of modern day Puerto Rico.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373370885#Americas", "title": "AD 1000", "revid": 1373370885, "section": "Events › Americas"}}, {"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&ndash;March", "title": "1495", "revid": 1365256979, "section": "Events › January&ndash;March"}}, {"year": 1496, "year_label": "1496 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere. During his time here he has forcibly subjugated the island, enslaved the Taíno, and laid the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Taíno's enslavement.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631969#January&ndash;March", "title": "1496", "revid": 1371631969, "section": "Events › January&ndash;March"}}, {"year": 1508, "year_label": "1508 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – The Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico begins when Juan Ponce de León lands on the island. Upon his arrival, Ponce is welcomed by Agüeybaná I, the island's leader a Cacique of the Taíno people. The Spanish explorer soon settles and founds the city of Caparra, near what is now the town of Guaynabo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320572#July&ndash;September", "title": "1508", "revid": 1351320572, "section": "Events › July&ndash;September"}}, {"year": 1511, "year_label": "1511 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The indigenous Taíno people revolt against the Spanish in southwestern Puerto Rico near Guánica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291242#Date_unknown", "title": "1511", "revid": 1367291242, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1511, "year_label": "1511 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – On the island of Puerto Rico, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León leads an incursion at Yahuecas against the local Taino warriors, commanded by Chief Urayoán.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291242#January&ndash;March", "title": "1511", "revid": 1367291242, "section": "Events › January&ndash;March"}}, {"year": 1511, "year_label": "1511 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 21", "text": "December 21 – In an impassioned sermon on the fourth Sunday of Advent at Santo Domingo, Dominican friar Antonio de Montesinos openly denounces the Spanish conquistadors' cruelty and abuse of the Taino people practice of Encomienda (forcible enslavement of non-Christian peoples) on the island of Hispanola. and adds that neither he nor any of his missionaries will allow slaveholders to partake in confession.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291242#October&ndash;December", "title": "1511", "revid": 1367291242, "section": "Events › October&ndash;December"}}]}