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Fernandez de Oviedo writes that when Juan Ponce de León arrived in the Americas he was a military man who had gained his experience in the Granada War, but Arnade cautions, "Without proof the biographers of the conquistador state that he accompanied Pedro Núñez de Guzmán in the war against the Moors during the Granada campaign". [29]
Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain. 1514: The Principality of Moldavia becomes a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. 1515: Algeria becomes a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire as the Regency of Algiers. 1517: The Ottoman Empire conquers Egypt from the Mamluks. Fall of the Majapahit Empire in Indonesia. 1520: The Sultanate of ...
1508: Ponce de León founds Caparra on San Juan Bautista (now Puerto Rico) 1511: Conquest of Cuba begins; 1513: Ponce de León in Florida; 1513: Núñez de Balboa claims the Pacific Ocean and its shores for Spain; 1515: Conquest of Cuba completed; 1517: Francisco Hernández de Córdoba lands on the Yucatán Peninsula
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
On September 7, 1513, Juan Ponce de León, who was appointed governor by the "Spanish Crown", sent troops headed by Alonso Niño and Alonso de Mendoza to quash the rebellious Taínos. When they arrived at Hayuya's village, they proceeded to raid and murder its inhabitants. They burned the village to the ground.
1513 – Juan Ponce de León explores "La Florida" and the Yucatán. [2] 1514–15 – António Fernandes reaches present-day Zimbabwe. [20] 1515 – Gonzalo de Badajoz crosses the Isthmus of Panama at the site of Nombre de Dios, reaching as far as the interior of the Azuero Peninsula. [21]
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Caparra is an archaeological site in the municipality of Guaynabo in northeastern Puerto Rico. Declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1994, the site contains the remains of the first European settlement and capital of the main island of Puerto Rico, specifically the foundations of the residence of Juan Ponce de León, the first European conquistador and governor of Puerto Rico.