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Juan Carlos I (born 1938), King of Spain (1975–2014) Federica Montseny (1905–1994), Minister of Health (1936–1937) and anarchist - first woman to be a minister in Spanish History; José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936) Mariano Rajoy (born 1955), Prime Minister (2011–2018) Rodrigo Rato (born 1949), managing director of the IMF since ...
Statue of Antonio Gil y Barbo, Plaza Principal, Nacogdoches, erected in 1997 The Old Stone Fort, built by Gil Ybarbo about 1790, and later reconstructed.. Dón Antonio Gil Ybarbo (1729–1809), also known as Gil Ybarbo or Gil Ibarbo was a Spanish military personnel and trader of the Spanish Texas times, who played a crucial role in the development of Nacogdoches, Texas in 1779.
This is a list of Hispanos, both settlers and their descendants (either fully or partially of such origin), who were born or settled, between the early 16th century and 1850, in what is now the southwestern United States (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, Utah and Nevada), as well as Florida, Louisiana (1763–1800) and other Spanish colonies in what is ...
Image credits: Historical Images The keeping of written history records appears relatively late, only 5,000 years ago in Egypt and ancient Sumer. Before that, knowledge about the past would be ...
^ Handbook of Texas Online: "Nolan, Philip" by Jack Jackson, uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association, accessed March 13, 2016. ^ Descendants of Joseph Quiñones at the Wayback Machine (archived May 10, 2005), as compiled by Steve Gibson, updated August 2, 2004. ^ Handbook of Texas Online: "Nolan, Philip ...
American Moses Austin was authorized as an empresario by Joaquín de Arredondo of Spain to create a colony of Americans in Texas, which was lightly populated, as a bulwark against the native Comanche people. Before this plan could be implemented, Moses Austin died in Missouri in 1821. That same year Mexico gained independence from Spain. [1 ...
Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821. Spain claimed ownership of the region in 1519. Slave raids by Spaniards into what became Texas began in the 16th century and created an atmosphere of antagonism with Native Americans (Indians) which would cause endless difficulties for the Spanish in the future.
This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Latin America or Spain. [1] The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": [2] Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American, Nicaraguan American ...