{"slug": "bartolome-de-las-casas", "label": "Bartolomé de las Casas", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207416", "qid": "Q207416", "description": "Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1474, 2021], "span_label": ["1474 CE", "2021 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "charles-v-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dominican-order", "label": "Dominican Order", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "san-juan-puerto-rico", "label": "San Juan, Puerto Rico", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "taino", "label": "Taíno", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ferdinand-ii-of-aragon", "label": "Ferdinand II of Aragon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "indigenous-peoples-of-the-americas", "label": "Indigenous peoples of the Americas", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1474, "year_label": "1474 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (d. 1566)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364765261#Births", "title": "1474", "revid": 1364765261, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1515, "year_label": "1515 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Bartolomé de las Casas urges Ferdinand II of Aragon to end Amerindian slavery, and recommends experimental free towns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362498078#Date_unknown", "title": "1515", "revid": 1362498078, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1531, "year_label": "1531 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abolishes the worst abuses of the encomienda system, by pressure of Bartolomé de las Casas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359939156#Date_unknown", "title": "1531", "revid": 1359939156, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1542, "year_label": "1542 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Bartolomé de las Casas completes A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, which will be published in 1552.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359947406#Date_unknown", "title": "1542", "revid": 1359947406, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1566, "year_label": "1566 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365562466#Deaths", "title": "1566", "revid": 1365562466, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1620, "year_label": "1620 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "A 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363705489#Date_unknown", "title": "1620", "revid": 1363705489, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275302003#January_to_April", "title": "2021 in Puerto Rico", "revid": 1275302003, "section": "Events › January to April"}}]}