Outline of Puerto Rico - History of Puerto Rico

History of Puerto Rico

• Military history of Puerto Rico
• Indigenous people
  • Ortoiroid people
  • Saladoid people
  • Arawak
  • Taíno
  • On November 19, 1493, a Spanish fleet under the command of Christoffa Corombo (Christopher Columbus) lands on a large island inhabited by Taíno people that he names San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist, now Puerto Rico).
  • On August 8, 1508, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León establishes Capárra, the first European settlement on the island of San Juan Bautista.
• Viceroyalty of New Spain, 1519–1821
  • Captaincy General of Puerto Rico, 1580-1898
    • Military history of Puerto Rico
    • Royal Decree of Graces of 1815
    • El Grito de Lares of 1868
    • Moret Law of 1870
    • Intentona de Yauco of 1898
• Spanish-American War, April 23 – August 12, 1898
  • Spanish Empire declares war on the United States, April 23, 1898
  • United States invasion of Puerto Rico, July 25, 1898
  • Treaty of Paris, December 10, 1898
• United States Military government of Porto Rico, December 10, 1898 – May 1, 1900
• United States Government of Porto Rico, May 1, 1900 – March 2, 1917
  • Foraker Act of 1900
  • World War I, June 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918
• United States Territory of Porto Rico, March 2, 1917 – May 17, 1932
  • Jones-Shafroth Act of March 2, 1917
  • Puerto Ricans in World War I War on April 6, 1917
• United States Territory of Puerto Rico, May 17, 1932 – July 25, 1952
  • Puerto Ricans in World War II, September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945
    • United States enters Second World War on December 8, 1941
  • Cold War, March 5, 1946 – December 25, 1991
  • Korean War, June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953
• Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s
  • Ponce Massacre
  • Río Piedras massacre
  • Jayuya Uprising
  • Utuado Uprising
  • San Juan Nationalist revolt
• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico) since July 25, 1952
  • Constitution of Puerto Rico of July 25, 1952
  • Puerto Ricans in the Vietnam War, September 26, 1959 – April 30, 1975
  • Persian Gulf War, August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991
  • Attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001
  • Afghanistan War, since October 7, 2001
  • Iraq War, since March 20, 2003
  • Political status of Puerto Rico