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1484 CE - 1566 CE: Life of the Dominican friar and defender of the rights of indigenous peoples in Spanish America Bartolomé de Las Casas.
1484 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas is born in Seville, Spain.
1502 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas settles on Hispaniola.
1511 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas participates in the conquest of Cuba.
1515 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas supervises an ill-fated colony in Cumaná on Hispaniola.
1521 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas leads an ill-fated colony in Venezuela.
1522 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas writes a graphic description of the Spanish colonial encomienda system in his "A Very Brief Recital of the Destruction of the Indies".
1537 CE - 1542 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas leads an experimental community with Kekchi Indians in Guatemala.
1550 CE: The Valladolid debate between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de Las Casas on how indigenous peoples in the Spanish Americas should be treated.
1566 CE: Bartolomé de Las Casas dies in Madrid.