Spanish exploration

Columbus first voyage

Oct 10, 1492

In 1492 Colombus sailed to the new world looking for a water route to asia but instead he found the new world and then sailed back to spain and clained that there was a lot of gold and that led to the exploration of the new world

Pineda

Jan 1, 1519

Pineda sailed across florida to mexico which he therefore mapped which made him responsible for mapping almost the entire gulf coast

Hernan Cortes

Aug 13, 1521

Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who explored Mexico and encountered the Aztecs, starting a war that eventually wiped out the Aztec civilization, keeping the gold and all the treasures founded, encouraging the other explorer to look for more gold.

De Vaca

Oct 23, 1527

De Vaca was one of the original 300 men under the command of Narvaez until it shipwrecked which only 80 men survived going to Galveston he then became a medicine man and after performing the first surgery he escaped with Esteban finding the Spanish after going through the wild for seven years claiming they had heard about the city of Cibola which Esteban went on while De Vaca fought for Indians rights until he was framed and exiled to Africa

Fray Marcos and Esteban

Mar 25, 1539

Fray Marcos and Esteban went on a journey to find Cibola the city of gold and ended up getting Esteban killed by the native Americans after going to a town which he believed was Cibola while Fray Marcos reported that they had found Cibola

Moscoso

Oct 24, 1539

moscoso was in an expedition under the comand of de soto but when de soto died he took over the xpedition and reported that texas was awful which led to no further exloration in texas for a while

Coronado

Oct 24, 1540

Coronado searched for the two cities of Cibola and Quivira which Turk led him too even though Turk lied about it and was then killed which made coronado come back to mexico as a failure (which turned out to have laid claim to the panhandle) which made the spanish not send anyone to texas for 150 years