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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus sailed for blue
On this year Columbus was born on 1492 and he was born in Genoa Italy -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus first voyage
columbus first voyage was for spain and they needed gold and they said we need a faster route to India and columbus said he could do it in 1 month -
Jan 1, 1519
Cortez Voyage
Cortez went to Mexico and he found 99 million tons of gold and on the way of the gold he found the aztecs and conquered them.This was a very successful voyage and this is one of the three G's that the spainiards were looking for and it gave them the glory -
Jan 1, 1519
Pineda Voyage
He was asked to find a water route on the coast and he went to what is now west Florida.On 9 months of exploring he mapped over 800 miles of map. He was the first person to map Florida to Texas. -
Jan 1, 1528
Devaca part 1
The orignal leader was Narvez and he died on the voyage so Devaca took control.The purpose was to claim land for the spainards and they normally had a diffrent leader but he passed away. -
Nov 6, 1528
Devaca Explores Texas
Devaca and his men were washed up on a island and this island happend to be Galveston Tx and they were captured by the Karankawa indians and they were well taken care of and they performed the first surgery so they then became medican men -
Jan 1, 1533
Moscoso Voyage
He went to explore North America and on his voyage he is the one that discovered the missippi river . Later in the voyage he died of fever. -
Jan 1, 1539
Fray Marcos and Estaban
He was to find Cibola this is a part of the 9 cities of gold and when they went they found nothing just adobe indian villiages..then this man named Turk said he knew of thisncity called cquivera and he said it was filled with gold and is run by beautiufl amazon women and the spainards just couldnt resist it so they went there and when they went there ,there was nothing. -
Jan 1, 1540
Cornado Voyage
Cornado found both the canyons and one of them is in texas. Grand canyon and Palo Duro canyon.He was also on the look for the 7 cities of gold that spain had invested in but he didnt find anything he discovered the Palo Duro canyon and the Grand canyon
