Papal Bulls

Papal Bulls that create the foundation of the Doctrine of Discovery

• Papal Bull Dum Diversas 18 June, 1452
  • English Quotations from Dum Diversas and the Latin original via google books
• The Bull Romanus Pontifex (Nicholas V), January 8, 1454
• The Legal Battle and Spiritual War against the Native People, The Bull Inter Caetera (Alexander VI), May 4, 1493
• Expansion of Papal Bulls
  • Treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494
  • Patent Granted by King Henry VII to John Cabot and his Sons, March 5, 1496
  • The Requerimiento, 1512

Photo Credit: Pope Alexander VI’s Demarcation Bull, May 4, 1493. Via Gilder Lehrman Collection