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The following is a timeline of the history of Panama City, ... 1519 - Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion de Panama founded by Pedro Arias Dávila. [1] [2] 1539 ...
Panamá Viejo (English: "Old Panama"), also known as Panamá la Vieja, is the remaining part of the original Panama City, the former capital of Panama, which was destroyed in 1671 by the Welsh privateer Henry Morgan. It is located in the suburbs of the current capital.
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 ...
Strategically located on the Pacific coast, Panama City was relatively free of the permanent menace of pirates that roamed the Atlantic coast for over one and a half centuries, until it was destroyed by a devastating fire, when the privateer Henry Morgan sacked it on January 28, 1671. It was rebuilt and formally established on January 21, 1673 ...
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 Rico ...
Panama City was founded in the 1519 by the Spanish, as the first European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas. The initial settlement, Panamá Viejo, was destroyed by pirates in 1671 and never rebuilt.
He arrived in June 1514 with a 19 vessels and 1,500 men. 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.
He served as mayor of the newly founded Panama City for a few years and undertook two failed expeditions to Peru. In 1529, Pizarro obtained permission from the Spanish crown to lead a campaign to conquer Peru and went on his third, and successful, expedition.