Spanish explorers

Spanish Explorer

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  • Aug 3, 1492

    Colombus's First Voyage

    Colombus's First Voyage
    Columbu swas trying to find a ne route to India, but he landed on the New World or whats now known as the Bahamas. There he enountered Native Americans and near by he found gold and oter precious objects. Without Columbus Europeans would not have been aware of the New World and would not have encouraged exploration there.
  • Feb 10, 1519

    Cortes' Voyage

    Cortes' Voyage
    Herman Cortes led the expedition that was the cause of the Aztec Empire to end and the expidition happened in Mexico. Cortes helped start coloniaztion of Spanish in the Americas.
  • Jun 2, 1519

    Pineda's Voyage

    Pineda's Voyage
    Pineda explored the Gulf of Mexico ,but he was the fist to map it. Pineda helped build understandings of European's knowlege of the New Worlds Coastal area.
  • Jan 1, 1527

    De Vaca's Voyage

    De Vaca's Voyage
    De Vaca was part of the Narváez expedition which was a Spanish attempt to colonize Florida
  • Jan 1, 1528

    De Vaca Discovers Texas

    De Vaca Discovers Texas
    De Vaca landed on Texas during a storm. He was walking through out Texas for 8 years.
  • Jan 1, 1539

    Fray Marcos and Esteban

    Fray Marcos and Esteban
    Estaban, a slave, and Fray Marcos went to Amercia to study the north and to look and verify the cities of gold. They explored Texas and New Mexico. No one knows why they reported this but he recalled seeing a city filled wioth gold larger than Mexico called Quivera.
  • Jan 1, 1539

    Moscoso's Expedition

    Moscoso's Expedition
    Moscoso and his leader Desoto who later died went to basically search for gold from Flordia to Texas. He dicovered the Mississippi river, or at least reported finding it. He did not like Texas and also said basically the same thing Coronado did. This made Spain not like Texas and did not return for 150 years.
  • Jan 1, 1540

    Coronado's Expedition

    Coronado's Expedition
    Coronado went to look for the 7 cities of gold in 1540-1542. Him, being a true Conquistador, went to look for the cities for Spain. He searched in the Panhandle of Texas and in Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma. On his 2nd part of the trip he looked for Quivera. He later reported not to go to Texas because they have no gold, harsh land, and mean Indians.