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This article lists the viceroys who ruled the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1535 to 1821 in the name of the monarch of Spain. In addition to viceroys, this article lists the highest Spanish governors of the viceroyalty, before the appointment of the first viceroy or when the office of viceroy was vacant. Most of these individuals exercised most ...
Antonio de Mendoza (1495 – 21 July 1552) was a Spanish colonial administrator who was the first viceroy of New Spain, serving from 14 November 1535 to 25 November 1550, and the second viceroy of Peru, from 23 September 1551, until his death on 21 July 1552.
The Viceroyalty of New Spain was created by royal decree on October 12, 1535, in the Kingdom of New Spain with a viceroy appointed as the king's "deputy" or substitute. This was the first New World viceroyalty and one of only two that the Spanish Empire administered in the continent until the 18th-century Bourbon Reforms.
28 September 1542 – First European landing by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. 4 November 1595 – Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño claims the coast for Spain. 1697 – First Mission erected in Baja California. 1768 – Spanish settlement begins. 1769 – First Mission and Presidio erected in 'upper' California.
Viceroys of New Spain — the Spanish viceroys ruling the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain (1542–1824) Governing the principle territories in North America , and also the Spanish East Indies and Spanish West Indies .
He made his formal entrance into Mexico City on August 16, 1716, and received his office from the previous viceroy, Fernando de Alencastre, 1st Duke of Linares. Zúñiga was the first bachelor to be viceroy of New Spain. He was soon informed of famine in Texas, which was causing colonists to abandon their villages.
In 1766, he succeeded Joaquín de Montserrat as viceroy of New Spain, [citation needed], making him the first foreign-born viceroy of Spain. [1] He arrived in Veracruz on July 10, 1766. The transfer of power occurred at Otumba, en route to Mexico City , on August 23, 1766, but his term of office is usually dated from his formal entry into ...
Don Lope Díez de Armendáriz, born in Quito, Ecuador, was the first Viceroy of New Spain who was born in the 'New World'. He formed the 'Navy of Barlovento' (Armada de Barlovento), based in Veracruz, to patrol coastal regions and protect the harbors, port towns, and trade ships from pirates and privateers.