Spanish Explorers

By Grulla_Gelding
  • Sep 8, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa

    First Euorpein to see theeastern parth of the pacific ocean
  • Sep 8, 1514

    Bernal Diaz del Castillo

    This last expedition entailed over 100 battles, including the surrender of Mexico City (in 1521). As a reward for his service, he was appointed governor of Santiago de los Caballeros in Guatemala
  • Sep 8, 1517

    Francisco Fernández de Córdoba

    was a Spanish explorer and slave trader who explored Mexico (1517) and Nicaragua (1524)
  • Sep 9, 1524

    Hernando De Soto

    Spanish explorer who sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern US.
  • Sep 8, 1526

    Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón

    Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526. He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina.
  • Sep 8, 1527

    Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca

    Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527. He traveled from Florida to Texas on a raft, then walked from Texas to Mexico City. He also explored the Paraguay River in South America. De Vaca and his fellow travelers were the first Europeans to see the bison, or American buffalo.
  • Sep 9, 1527

    Panfilo de Narvaez

    He helped conquer Cuba in 1511 and led a Spanish royal expedition to North America (leaving Spain in 1527). He was born in Valladolid, Spain and died on his expedition to Florida.
  • Sep 8, 1532

    Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

    With a group of hundreds of Spaniards and enslaved natives, he traveled through what is now northern Mexico and the southwestern USA (including Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas). His expedition found only Zuñi, Hopi, and Pueblos, native Americans who repelled Coronado when he demanded that they convert to Christianity.
  • Sep 8, 1542

    Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

    Cabrillo was the first European explorer of the Californian coast. In 1542, he sailed from Acapulco to southern California, claiming California for King Charles I of Spain.
  • Sep 9, 1565

    Andres de Urdaneta

    a Spanish explorer who accompanied Garcia Jofre de Loaysa on the second sailing expedition around the world when he was 17 years old. On this 1525 trip, only one ship of the original seven survived.