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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Columbus left Spain with 3 small ships in August 1492. Columbus's goal was to find a secert route to Asia.After 33 days at sea, the mariners sighted land. On October 12,1492, Columbus came ashore on a small island in the Caribbean Sea and claimed it for Spain. Columbus had reached a part of the world previously unknown in Europe.Spain funded his expendition. In each village the Spanish claimed the land and all of the resources for Spain. Found America, only one to write his discovery. Indains -
Feb 1, 1519
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes landed in what is now known Mexico. Cortes and his small army conquered the powerful Aztec Empire there. They tore down the Aztec capital, Tenochitlan, and plundered the city and named it 'Mexico',after the world that the Aztec call themselves. Mexico City became the capital of New Spain, the Spanishempire in the Americas.In 1519, the same year Cortes landed in Mexico. Goal; find gold! Cuba to Mexico. Montezuma, Tenochtitlan,Nueva Espana. Sinked his own ships. -
Feb 19, 1519
Alonso Alvarez
Alonso Alvarez becamet he first European to explore the Texas coast. Álvarez de Pineda studied and mapped the coastline from what is today Florida all the way to Mexico. He reported his findings to the governor of Jamaica, and he returned to Mexico to begin a settlement. -
Jan 1, 1527
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca joined a large expedition led by the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez. Narváez’s group became the first Europeans to enter what is now Texas. Narváez hoped to conquer the area between Florida and Mexico, but his efforts failed. Then a storm drove his group aground on an island near present-day Galveston. Cabeza de Vaca named the island Malhado, Spanish for “the isle of misfortune.” Seaching on land. 25 people on the route. GTP&STP. CIBOLA. -
Jan 1, 1528
Estevanico
Estevanico was a Berber and one of the first known native Africans to reach the present-day United States. He traveled for eight years with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado across northern New Spain, reaching Spanish forces in Mexico City in 1536.Later Estevanico served as the main guide for a return expedition to the Southwest. Spaniards believe that he was killed in the Zuni city of Hawikuh in 1539. -
Jan 1, 1539
Marcos de Niza
He emigrated to America in 1540 for exploration of new land, and after serving his order zealously in Peru, Guatemala and was chosen to explore the country north of Sonora, whose wealth was depicted in the accounts of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.In 1537 he arrived in Mexico City at the request of the viceroy Antonio de Mendoza. Preceded by Estevanico, the Moroccan-Berber companion of Cabeza de Vaca in his wanderings and the Black Mexican of Zuni traditions, Fray Marcos left Culiacán in March. -
Jan 1, 1540
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Coronado was the Governor of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia, a province of New Spain located northwest of Mexico and comprising the contemporary Mexican states of Jalisco, Sinaloa and Nayarit.Coronado assembled an expedition with two components. One component carried the bulk of the expedition's supplies, and traveled via the Guadalupe River under the leadership of Hernando de Alarcón. The other component traveled by land, along the trail Friar Marcos de Niza had used. Same route as Marcos. -
Jan 1, 1542
Luis de Moscoso Alvarado
Luis de Moscoso Alvarado was born in Badajoz, Spain in 1505. He was son of Alonso Hernández Diosdado Mosquera de Moscoso and Isabel de Alvarado and the nephew of the also Spanish conqueror Pedro de Alvarado, who had excelled in the conquests of Mexico and Central America. He had also two brothers: Juan de Alvarado and Cristóbal de Mosquera.In the Americas, he accompanied to his uncle Pedro de Alvarado, that participated in the conquest of present Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. -
Juan de Oñate
Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Spanish Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor of the Santa Fe de Nuevo México province in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. He led early Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Valley, encountering numerous indigenous tribes in their homelands there. Oñate founded settlements within the province and in the present day American Southwest. Goal- create some spanish stuff. -
Sieur de La Salle
The first French explorer to enter the area of present-day Texas was René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. In 1682 he led an expedition from Lake Michigan down the Illinois and Missouri Rivers to navigate the entire length of the Mississippi River. La Salle’s group followed the Mississippi down to the Gulf of Mexico, making La Salle’s party the first Europeans to reach the river’s delta. La Salle claimed the entire valley of the Mississippi Ri. Built a fort to protect them self and east texas
