• Tristán de Luna y Arellano (1510 – September 16, 1573) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador of the 16th century. Born in Borobia, Spain, to a noble...
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    settlements in Florida, with varying degrees of success. In 1559, Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a settlement at present-day Pensacola, making it...
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    will later become the University of Lille). August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1,500 men, on 13 ships, arrives...
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    the cross and crown that represents the religious mission of Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano. Above the escutcheon is a hand (symbolizing faith, sincerity...
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  • Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Tristán de Luna y Arellano and Juan de Oñate. All of them explored the South of the present-day...
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  • accessed July 18, 2011. Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia, Acapulco (de Juárez), p. 7 Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia, Saltillo, p. 1418...
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  • short-lived, entering the bay on August 15, 1559, and led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano. It consisted of some 1,500 people on 11 ships from Vera Cruz...
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    anchored in Pensacola Bay for the winter of 1539–1540. In 1559, Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano led the first settlement of the region. His 11 ships, with 1500...
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      In 1559, 1,500 people on the eleven ships of the Spanish Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano expedition carried provisions to establish a foothold in North...
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  • of the Straits of Magellan from the west. August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1500 men on thirteen ships arrives...
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    southern North America are commemorated at De Soto National Memorial. In 1559, Spaniard Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a short-lived colony at Pensacola...
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    in Cuernavaca in 1531 and died shortly after her birth. don Martín Cortés y Ramírez de Arellano, 2nd Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca, born in Cuernavaca...
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    expedition of Tristán de Luna y Arellano was sent and landed at Pensacola Bay on August 15, 1559. Angel de Villafañe was involved in the Luna expedition...
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  • – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. 1559 – Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with party of 1,500, intending to settle on...
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    1550s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    will later become the University of Lille). August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1,500 men, on 13 ships, arrives...
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    his family. During his adolescence, he served as a page and squire to Don Pedro de Portocarrero, lord of Moguer. In 1500, motivated by his master after...
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    the de Alvarado family and daughter of Treasurer and Governor Alonso de Estrada y Hidalgo, Lord of Picón, and his wife Marina Flores Gutiérrez de la Caballería...
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    del Marqués Don Francisco Pizarro (1533–1541)". bloknot.info (A. Skromnitsky). Pizarro, Francisco (15 January 2009). "Cédula de encomienda de Francisco...
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    Library. Roa y Urzúa, Luis de (1935). La Familia de Don Pedro de Valdivia, Conquistador de Chile (PDF) (in Spanish). Sevilla: Imprenta de la Gavidia. p...
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    Gulf of Mexico, having the deepest harbor on the Gulf. In 1559, Tristán de Luna y Arellano landed with some 1,500 people on 11 ships from Veracruz, Mexico...
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    to some deaths. But, after they reached Mexico City and the Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza offered to lead another expedition to La Florida, few of the...
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    de Gabay y Moctezuma, the wife of Basque nobleman, and early colonist and settler in Mexico, Don Lope Ruiz de Esparza. This Ana Francisca de Gabay y Moctezuma...
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    colonies and territories in Mexico and the Caribbean. In 1559 Tristán de Luna y Arellano left Mexico with 500 soldiers and 1,000 civilians on a mission...
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    Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (Spanish: [gonˈθalo xiˈmeneθ ðe keˈsaða]; 1509 – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish...
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  • (born April 22, 1986) Charlie Davao (October 7, 1934–August 8, 2010) Ching Arellano (June 6, 1960–February 12, 2011) Chiquito (March 12, 1932–July 2, 1997)...
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    Miguel de Gualdape in modern-day South Carolina in 1526. In 1559, Tristán de Luna y Arellano established the first multi-year European settlement in the United...
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    Americas.) Teixeira, Pedro & Diego Ramirez de Arellano. (1621). Reconocimiento de los Estrechos de Magallanes y San Vicente. Madrid. (A Spanish map marking...
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    1698 map by Don Andrés de Arriola y Guzmán (the first governor of a settlement in the Pensacola area after the Tristán de Luna y Arellano colony was abandoned)...
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    Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, and Juan de Oñate, and non-Spanish explorers working for the Spanish...
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    Nashville To New Mexico. June 18, 2022. Retrieved December 16, 2022. Arellano, Gustavo (November 8, 2017). "The 10 Best Songs of New Mexico Music, America's...
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