bartolome de las casas

  • Nov 11, 1484

    Las Casas is born in Seville, Spain

  • Period: Nov 11, 1484 to Jan 1, 1550

    Italian Renaissance

  • Jan 1, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    divides the western and eastern hemispheres between the Spanish and Portuguese
  • Jan 1, 1502

    Las Casas' first trip to the Americas

  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther breaks from the Cathollic church and begins the Protestant reformation

  • Jan 1, 1526

    Las Casas begins writing Historia de las Indes

    this was not published until after his death, per his request.
  • Jan 1, 1527

    Spanish conquer the Inca empire

  • Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Jan 1, 1552

    Brevísima Relación de la Destruyción is published

  • Jul 11, 1566

    dies in Madrid, Spain