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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492
He was trying to find a new easy passage to asia to trade to get silk,spices ect. but insted he found America but he didnt ever know that it wasent asia so he called the native americans indians so that is how they got there name -
Feb 1, 1519
Cortes
he qonqured the aztces and brought back 6 millon dollars of gold -
Feb 1, 1519
Pineda
he maped the coast Flordia to Texasand may have descovred the rio grande -
Jan 1, 1525
De Vaca and Estaban
they were the first explores in Texas first to write about texas indians karankawas jumano and couhlitechans he also reported the 7 cities of gold cibola -
Jan 1, 1539
frar marcos and estaban
they exsplored texas and new mexicothey told of seeing a city of gold bigger than mexico citythey didi not go so that is how coranado go to it -
Jan 1, 1542
coranado
HE WAS CENT TO FIND THE CITIES OF GOLD HE EXSPLORED THE PLAINES OF TEXAS HE DISCOVERED PALO DURO AND WENT THROUGHT ARIZONA NEW MEXICO KANSAS OKALHOMA HE DID NOTHING -
Jan 1, 1542
DE SOTO AND MOSCOSO
They discovred the mississipi river they went floordia to texas
gave same report as coranadothat makes stop exploration for 150 years