Requerimiento 1513 Dating — Investigation

Status: Open Triggered by: docs/OUTSTANDING_QUESTIONS.md — Requerimiento 1513 possibly pushed back ~150 years by historic redactors; source verification needed.

Claim

The Requerimiento (Spanish legal declaration read to indigenous peoples before conquest) is conventionally dated to 1513. If it was redacted or backdated by ~150 years, its real adoption may fall in the mid-17th century or later, with implications for chronology of colonial law and narrative.

Methodology

• Locate earliest surviving manuscripts or prints of the Requerimiento.
• Check whether any historian or alternate-chronology researcher has argued for a later date.
• Assess evidence for or against 1513 as authentic date of first use.
• Document result in OUTSTANDING_QUESTIONS.

Findings

(To be populated.)

References

• docs/OUTSTANDING_QUESTIONS.md
• Standard historiography: 1513, Palacios Rubios, etc.

Next Steps

• Bibliographic search: Requerimiento + dating + manuscript history.
• If evidence for backdating exists, add to timeline with appropriate caveat.

Keywords: #Requerimiento #Dating