Bartolomé de las Casas

Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)

7 dated entries naming Bartolomé de las Casas, drawn from 7 separate years between 1474 CE and 2021 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1474November 11 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (died 1566)source

16th century

  • 1515Bartolomé de las Casas urges Ferdinand II of Aragon to end Amerindian slavery, and recommends experimental free towns.source
  • 1531Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abolishes the worst abuses of the encomienda system, by pressure of Bartolomé de las Casas.source
  • 1542Bartolomé de las Casas completes A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, which will be published in 1552.source
  • 1566July 18 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish priest (born 1484)source

17th century

  • 1620A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas and Origin and progress of the disturbances in the Netherlands by Johannes Gysius are re-published in the Netherlands.source

21st century

  • 2021March 12 – San Juan′s San José Church prepares for reopening after being closed in 1996 for restoration and repairs. The second-oldest church on the island, which was built in 1532 near the ocean on top of a Taíno settlement at the highest point of Old San Juan, was originally a Dominican convent where Bartolomé de las Casas lived.source

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