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1521 – Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quexos find the mouth of a river they name "Rio de San Juan Bautista" (perhaps Winyah Bay at the mouth of the Pee Dee River in modern South Carolina). [ 29 ] 1521 – Cristóvão Jacques explores the Plate River and explores the Parana River , entering it for about 23 leagues (around 140 km), to near the ...
The route of the Victoria, which completed the world's first recorded circumnavigation over about 3 years.. The Magellan expedition (10 August or 20 September 1519 – 6 September 1522) was the first voyage around the world in human history.
The Battle of Mactan (Filipino: Labanan sa Mactan; Spanish: Batalla de Mactán) was fought on a beach in Mactan Island (now part of Cebu, Philippines) between Spanish forces led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan along with local allies, and Lapulapu, the chieftain of the island, on the early morning hours of April 27, 1521.
[34]: 321–25 Cuauhtemoc's forces were defeated four times in March 1521, around Chalco and Huaxtepec, and Cortés received another ship load of arms and men from the Emperor. [34]: 326–32 On 6 April 1521, Cortés met with the caciques around Chalco, and announced he would "bring peace" and blockade Mexico. He wanted all of their warriors ...
Ronald became the second Black astronaut when he flew as a mission specialist from February 3rd to 11th, 1984. ... all happens to exist in our timeline, swimming right now in the deep ocean ...
Ferdinand Magellan [a] (c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese [3] explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan , allowing his fleet to pass from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean and perform the first European ...
Fayetteville I-295 Outer Loop. This $1 billion project, started in 2003, aims to connect the region to Fort Liberty and I-95.Covering 39 miles, the Interstate 295 outer loop starts at U.S. 401 ...
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain – available as The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517–1521 ISBN 0-306-81319-X; Durán, Diego. The History of the Indies of New Spain (1581). Translated and edited by Doris Heyden. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1994. ISBN 978-0806-14107-7; León-Portilla, Miguel (Ed.) (1992) [1959].