• Juan Díaz de Solís (c. 1470 – 20 January 1516) was a 16th-century navigator and explorer. He is also said to be the first European to land on what is now...
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    European to disembark in what is now Argentina was Juan Díaz de Solís, who discovered the Río de la Plata. Solís was killed by Charrúas, along with other sailors...
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    The legend began in the early 16th century when castaways from the Juan Díaz de Solís expedition heard indigenous stories of a mountain of silver in an...
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    possibly to adjacent bodies of water, led by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón and Juan Díaz de Solís. It is thought to have been the earliest European reconnaissance of...
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  • Hilda Solis, U.S. Secretary of Labor (2009-2013), former Congresswoman for the 32nd District of California (D) Javier Solís, Mexican Singer Juan Díaz de Solís...
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    The Río de la Plata was first explored by the Portuguese in 1512–13. The Spanish first explored it in 1516, when the navigator Juan Díaz de Solís traversed...
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    the Plaza Independencia. The theatre was named after the explorer Juan Díaz de Solís, who was the first European explorer to land in modern day Uruguay...
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  • football player Juan Díaz de Solís (1470–1516), Spanish navigator Juan Alberto Díaz (born 1985), Salvadoran footballer Juan Américo Díaz (1944–2013), Bolivian...
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  • and is known as el Viaducto (The Viaduct). It is located at 3660 Juan Díaz De Solís in Sarandí. Arsenal's first stadium was started to be built on 11...
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    is a national route of Uruguay. In 1983, it was assigned the name Juan Díaz de Solís, honouring the Spanish navigator. The distance notation along Route...
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    publication now in the public domain: Beazley, Charles Raymond (1911). "Diaz de Novaes, Bartholomeu". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). p. 172...
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  • Vázquez de Coronado Juan Vázquez de Coronado Hernán Cortés Juan de la Cosa Bartolomé de Las Casas Alonso Díaz Moreno Bernal Díaz del Castillo Melchor Díaz Ambrosius...
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  • the arrival of Spanish chroniclers in the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516 to the Río de la Plata, which marks the beginning of Spanish occupation...
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    Parque del Plata and Las Vegas. It is named after Spanish explorer Juan Díaz de Solís. List of rivers of Uruguay 34°46′S 55°44′W / 34.767°S 55.733°W...
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    expedition, Juan Díaz de Solís. The 1515–16 expedition was spurred on by reports of Portuguese exploration of the region (see below). It ended when de Solís and...
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    Vasco da Gama (redirect from Vasco de gama)
    Gama (who married Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos). Little is known of da Gama's early life. The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that he studied...
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    Jaureguiberry and Solís. Contrary to what is popularly believed, it is not called Solís by the Spanish explorer Juan Díaz de Solís, but by a man named Solís whose...
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  • the arrival of Spanish chroniclers in the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516 to the Río de la Plata, which marks the beginning of Spanish occupation...
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    there was a mutiny attempt led by the Spanish captains Juan de Cartagena, Gaspar de Quesada and Luis de Mendoza. Magellan barely managed to quell the mutiny...
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    1516 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January – Juan Díaz de Solís is said to have discovered the Río de la Plata (in future Argentina), although there...
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    Maria [pt] in present-day Uruguay. Later the Spanish Crown sent navigator Juan Díaz de Solís on an expedition to explore the lands allocated to Spain according...
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    and medieval European sources to his account of the 1514 voyage of Juan Diaz de Solis in a letter to the Pope in 1516, though he did not believe the stories...
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  • in Brazil, a veteran, like Melchior Ramirez [pt], of the Armada of Juan Díaz de Solís. He had practical duties and was in charge of the supply ship. For...
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    Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (c. 1453 – 16 December 1515), was a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman. He served as viceroy of Portuguese...
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    Empire. Garcia was possibly a member of the failed expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1515 and 1516, which sought a sea passage from the Atlantic to...
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    Martín García Island (category Islands of the Río de la Plata)
    (1930), Juan Perón (1945), and Arturo Frondizi (1962). Martin Garcia Island was discovered by the Spanish in the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516;...
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    viceroyalty. Jiménez de Quesada also founded the capital of Colombia, Santafé de Bogotá. Juan Díaz de Solís arrived again to the renamed Río de la Plata, literally...
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    Pacific Ocean in 1513 after crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and Juan Díaz de Solís died in Río de la Plata in 1516 while exploring South America in the service...
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    Festival Islâmico de Mértola - Celebrating the Islamic cultural connection between Islam and Mértola. Occurs every two years. Juan Díaz de Solís (1470–1516)...
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    European tourists. La Pedrera is located at km 227.200 of Route 10, Juan Díaz de Solís, a little east of Cape of Santa María, on a narrow and small peninsula...
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