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Christopher Columbus

Aug 6, 1492

In exchange for started when Columbus arrived in America. Involve the series of transfers of plants, animals, and diseases europeans, Asians, and, African Americans. Erouprans brought American plants and animals back to Europe. As well as the explorers went back with brought American plants and animals soon spread it all around Europe to Asia and into Africa.

Alonzo Álverez de Piñe

Sep 6, 1519

Alonso Álvarez de piñeda was the first one to see the Texas coast and map it. Alonzo also establish the colony near the Pánuco River and after he sent his men back to gather some supplies and when they came back he found that they had been killed in an Indian attack.

Hernán Cortéz

Dec 6, 1519

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (Spanish pronunciation: [erˈnaŋ korˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Pánfilo de Narváez

Oct 6, 1528

Pánfilo de Narváez (1470–1528) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas. Born in Spain, he first embarked to Jamaica in 1510 as a soldier. He came to participate in the conquest of Cuba and led an expedition to Camagüey escorting Bartolomé de las Casas. Las Casas described him as exceedingly cruel towards the natives.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Oct 6, 1537

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490/1492[1] – Seville, c. 1557/1558/1559[1]/1560[2]) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish colonial forces in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La Relación

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Sep 22, 1554

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer, who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to reach the mythical Seven Cities of Gold. His expedition marked the first European sightings of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, among other landmarks. His name is often Anglicized as "Vasquez de Coronado".

René Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle

Mar 19, 1687

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle (November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687) was a French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France.