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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
in search of an island containing a fabled fountain of youth. He did not find the spring, but discovered a beautiful land covered with exquisite flowers, and named it Florida. In 1520 Lucas Vasquez de Allyou, a wealthy Spaniard, who owned mines in Santo Domingo, voyaged northwesterly from that island, and discovered the coast of South Carolina. Meanwhile the Spaniards had been pushing discoveries westward from Hispaniola, or Santo Domingo. Ojeda also discovered Central America. In 1513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean from a mountain summit on the Isthmus of Darien. Francisco Fernandez de Cordova discovered Mexico in 1517. Pamphila de Narvaez and Ferdinand de Soto traversed the country bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, the former in 1528, and the latter in 1539-41. In the latter year De Soto discovered and crossed the Mississippi, and penetrated the country beyond. This was the last attempt of the Spaniards to make discoveries in North America before the Englis
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
uba and founds Havana......1511 Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida......March 27, 1512 Vespucci dies at Seville, Spain, aged sixty-one years......1512 Vasco Nuñez Balboa, crossing the isthmus of Darien, discovers the Pacific and takes possession of it for the King of Spain, calling it the South sea ......Sept. 25, 1513 empire of the Incas......1512-17 Las Casas made Universal Protector of the Indians ......1516 Francisco Fernandez de Cordova discovers Mexico......1517 Vasco Nuñez Balboa executed at Darien......1517 Grijalva at Cozumel and Vera Cruz, penetrates Yucatan and names it New Spain......1518 Hernando Cortez sails from CuJuan, Spanish soldier; born in 1460 (?); died in Cuba in 1521. The discoverer of Florida, March 27, 1512; landing at St. Augustine......April 2, 1512 Balboa, Vasco Nuñez, Spanish adventurer, born in Spain, 1475; executed at Darien on a charge of treason, 1517; the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean......Sept. 25, 1513 Solis, J