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María Manuela Dominga de Espejo y Aldaz, also known as Manuela de la Santa Cruz y Espejo (b. 20 December 1753 – d. 1829) was an Ecuadorian journalist, nurse, [1] feminist, and revolutionary. She was the sister of Eugenio Espejo , with whom she discussed and shared Enlightenment and revolutionary, pro-revolutionary thought and ideas.
Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (Royal Audiencia of Quito, February 21, 1747 – December 28, 1795) was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of criollo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who inspired the separatist movement in Quito. He is regarded as one of ...
Santa Cruz County was one of the original counties formed when California was made a state in 1850. Court was first held in the Eagle Hotel, the largest building of the Mission Santa Cruz campus, just south of School Street. [2] The second courthouse was a building on the east side of present-day Emmett Street nearby.
Santa Cruz is a canton in the Ecuadorian province of the Galápagos. Its area covers the islands of Baltra, Bartolomé, Marchena, North Seymour, Pinta, Pinzón, Rábida, Santa Cruz, and Santiago. As of the 2006 Galápagos census, it has a population of 11,262. [2]
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Latin: Archidioecesis Sanctae Crucis de Sierra) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia. It was erected as the Diocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra by Pope Paul V on July 5, 1605, and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope ...
The land was granted to sixty Spanish families brought to New Mexico by Fray Francisco Farfán in 1694. They settled ‘’La Villa Nueva de Santa Cruz de Los Españoles Mexicanos del Rey Nuestro Senor Carlos Segundo‘’ on April 21, 1695. [2] In October, 44 families, from Zacatecas joined them.
Marquess of Santa Cruz (Spanish: Marqués de Santa Cruz) sometimes known as Marquess of Santa Cruz de Mudela, is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1569 by Philip II to Álvaro de Bazán, an important admiral who defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto. [2]
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