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

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