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Spanish Explorers

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  • Sep 3, 1460

    DE LEON, PONCE

    DE LEON, PONCE
    De Leon Ponce established the oldest European settlement in Puerto Rico and discovered the Gulf Stream (a current in the Atlantic Ocean). He was the first European to set foot in Florida. He may have accompanied Christopher Columbus on his 1493 voyage to the New World.
  • Dec 3, 1460

    PINZON, VINCENTE

    PINZON, VINCENTE
    Vincente sailed with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World, as captain of the Niña.Pinzon’s journey produced the first recorded account of a European explorer sighting the Brazilian coast.
  • Jan 3, 1475

    AYLLON, LUCAS VAZQUEZ DE

    AYLLON, LUCAS VAZQUEZ DE
    Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón was a spanish explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526, He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina.
  • Mar 3, 1475

    BALBOA, VASCO NUNEZ DE 1475-1519

    BALBOA, VASCO NUNEZ DE 1475-1519
    Vasco Nuniez De Balboa was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513), after crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland. He helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of Panama.
  • Jul 3, 1485

    CORTES, HERNAN

    CORTES, HERNAN
    Cortés traveled inland and "discovered" Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, claiming all of Mexico for Spain in 1521. His sights on overthrowing ruler Montezuma II in the Aztec capital of Tenochitilán.
  • Nov 3, 1490

    DE VACA, ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA

    DE VACA, ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA
    Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.
  • May 3, 1492

    CASTILLO, BERNAL DIAZ DEL

    CASTILLO, BERNAL DIAZ DEL
    Was a Spanish historian and soldier who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Mexico. In 1517, he sailed to the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, with Francisco de Córdoba's expedition
  • Jan 6, 1493

    Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar

    Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
    Diego was an explorer and conquistador involved in the second voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World.
  • Feb 6, 1513

    Francisco Pizarro

    Francisco Pizarro
    Francisco helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.
  • Sep 8, 1518

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci
    Amerigo was Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
  • Nov 16, 1532

    Gonzalo Pizarro

    Gonzalo Pizarro
    Gonzalo helped conquer Peru in the early 1530s and led a rebellion against Spain in the 1540s.