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On 19 November 1493 he landed on the island, naming it San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist. The first Spanish settlement, Caparra, was founded on 8 August 1508 by Juan Ponce de León, a lieutenant under Columbus, who later became the first governor of the island. [5]
He founded Fort San Juan in 1567–68 at the regional chiefdom of Joara as the first European settlement in the interior of North America in western North Carolina and five other interior garrisons. In 1561, an expedition sent by Ángel de Villafañe kidnapped an Indian boy from the Chesapeake Bay region and took him to Mexico.
1988 – Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano de San Juan (historical archives) established. [28] 1989 January 2: Héctor Luis Acevedo becomes Mayor of San Juan. September 18: Hurricane Hugo. Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía headquartered in San Juan. [64] 1991 – Autonomous Municipalities Act of 1991 created. [39] 1992
The first European colony, Caparra, was founded on August 8, 1508, by Juan Ponce de León, a lieutenant under Columbus, who was greeted by the Taíno Cacique Agüeybaná and later became the first governor of the island. [11]
1598: Spanish settlement in Northern New Mexico. 1600: By 1600 Spain and Portugal were still the only significant colonial powers. North of Mexico the only settlements were Saint Augustine and the isolated outpost in northern New Mexico. Exploration of the interior was largely abandoned after the 1540s.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Capital and largest city of Puerto Rico Capital city and municipality in Puerto Rico, United States San Juan Capital city and municipality Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Santurce, San Juan Bay, and Old San Juan from San Cristóbal Fortress Old San ...
The following year, the first Spanish settlements were established in the Caribbean. Although the Spanish conquests of the Aztec empire and the Inca empire in the early sixteenth century made Mexico and Peru more desirable places for Spanish exploration and settlement, the Caribbean remained strategically important.
Oñate pioneered 'The Royal Road of the Interior Land' or El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro between Mexico City and the Tewa village of Ohkay Owingeh, or San Juan Pueblo. He also founded the Spanish settlement of San Gabriel de Yungue-Ouinge on the Rio Grande near the Native American Pueblo, located just north of the modern city of Española ...