The Valladolid Debate (In Our Time)
1550 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the debate in Valladolid, Spain in 1550, over Spanish rights to enslave the native peoples in the newly conquered lands. Bartolomé de Las Casas (pictured above), the Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, was trying to end the encomienda system in which those who now owned the land could also take the people in forced labour. Juan Gines S
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Around 1550
- The Reformation (1517)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)