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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Spanish explorer of the American southwest Francisco Vázquez de Coronado Governor of New Galicia Monarch Charles I Personal details Born 1510 (1510) Salamanca, Crown of Castile Died 22 September 1554 (1554-09-22) (aged 43–44) Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain Signature Military ...
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ("True History of the Conquest of New Spain") by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Bernal Díaz del Castillo served as a rodelero, or soldier armed with sword and buckler, in Cortés' expedition, and personally participated in the nocturnal battle known as "La noche triste." His Chapter CXXVIII ...
The Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition visited the land on what became present day New Mexico in 1581–1582. The expedition was led by Francisco Sánchez, called "El Chamuscado," and Fray Agustín Rodríguez, the first Spaniards known to have visited the Pueblo Indians since Francisco Vásquez de Coronado 40 years earlier.
Route of the Coronado Expedition, 1540–1542. Depiction of Coronado's expedition.Coronado sets out to the north, oil painting by Frederic Remington, c. 1900.. In 1540, Spaniard Francisco Vásquez de Coronado commanded a large expedition north from Mexico to search for wealth and the Seven Cities of Cibola.
In 1541 the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his army journeyed east from the Rio Grande Valley in search of a rich land called Quivira. Passing through the Texas Panhandle, he met a people he called the Querechos. This was the first known venture of Europeans across the Great Plains of the United States. Coronado and his ...
Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: Commanders and leaders; Xauían † Francisco Vázquez de Coronado García López de Cárdenas: Strength; 50 or so men per village: 350 Spanish men-at-arms 2,000 Mexican Indian allies 350 servants and followers: Casualties and losses; Hundreds killed, executed, or wounded
Francisco Cano; Alonso de Cárdenas; García López de Cárdenas; Antonio Díaz de Cardoso; Juan de Carvajal; Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva; Francisco César; Juan de Céspedes; Beltrán de Cetina; Gregorio de Cetina; Pedro Cieza de León; Christopher Columbus; Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua) Francisco Hernández de ...
In 1628 the Spanish established Mission La Purísima Concepción de Hawikuh at this pueblo. The Spanish attempted to suppress the Zuni religion, and introduced the encomienda forced-labor system. In 1632, the Hawikuh Zuni rebelled, burned the church, and killed the priest.