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The city of Panama was founded on 15 August 1519, by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point for expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire of Peru. It was a stopover point on one of the most important trade routes in the American continent, leading to the fairs of Nombre de Dios and Portobelo , through which ...
On August 15, 1519, Pedrarias, having abandoned Santa María la Antigua del Darién, moved the capital of Castilla del Oro with all its organizational institutions to the Pacific Ocean's coast and founded Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá (present day Panama City), the first European settlement on the shores of the Pacific.
1519 Panama City: Panamá: Panama First European established city on the Pacific Coast of the Americas. Founded in 1519, at the present day ruins of Panama Viejo, it was sacked by the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan in 1671, and resettled to nearby Casco Viejo, in 1673. 1520 Hato Mayor del Rey: Hato Mayor: Dominican Republic: 1521 San Juan: Puerto ...
A settlement was founded on August 15, 1519 by Pedro Arias Dávila and another 100 inhabitants. At the time, ... Panama City had 548 inhabitants (some of them ...
In 1519, Dávila founded Panama City. [24] Gold and silver were brought by ship from South America, hauled across the isthmus, and loaded aboard ships for Spain. The route became known as the Camino Real, or Royal Road, although it was more commonly known as Camino de Cruces (Road of Crosses) because of the number of gravesites along the way.
In 1519, Arias Dávila founded Panama City and moved his capital there in 1524, abandoning Darién. Dávila sent Gil González Dávila to explore to the north. In 1524, he sent another expedition under Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, who was executed there in 1526 by order of Dávila, by then aged over 85.
1519 - Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion de Panama founded by Pedro Arias Dávila. [1] [2] 1539 - Royal Audiencia of Panama established. 1671 - Panamá Viejo sacked by privateers Henry Morgan and Robert Searle. [2] 1673 New settlement established 5 miles southwest of Panamá Viejo. [1] City wall, [2] Palacio de las Garzas, and Saint Dominic Convent ...
Panama City was founded on August 15, 1519 and it lasted one hundred and fifty-two years. In January 1671, the Governor Juan Perez de Guzman had it set on fire, [citation needed] before the attack and looting by the pirate Henry Morgan. In 1672, Antonio Fernández de Córdoba initiated the construction of a new city, which was then founded on ...