* 1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat ( d. 1626 )

* October 2 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat ( b. 1567 )

* November 1 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat ( d. 1626 )

Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar, title awarded by king Philip III of Spain in 1617, i.

Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar ( es: Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar ) ( Gondomar, Galicia November 1, 1567 – Casa la Reina, Logroño, October 2, 1626 ), was a Galician ( Spanish ) diplomat, the Spanish ambassador to England in 1613 to 1622 and afterwards, as a kind of ambassador emeritus, Spain's leading expert on English affairs until his death.

Diego was the eldest son of the Galician knight Garcia Sarmiento de Soutomaior — Lord of Salvaterra de Miño, who served as corregidor of Toro and governor of the Canary Islands — and of Juana de Acuña, heiress of the noble house of Acuña.

Statute in Gondomar, Pontevedra | Gondomar, Galicia ( Spain ) | Galicia: Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, diplomatic, defender of the Galician language, and lover of Galicia

In Spanish, Don Pascual de Gayangos wrote a useful biographical introduction to a publication of a few of his letters -- Cinco Cartas politico-literarias de Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, issued at Madrid in 1869 by the Sociedad de Bibliófilos of the Spanish Academy ; and there is a life in English by F. H.

On his reporting the results of his expedition to King Philip II of Spain, the latter resolved to fortify the Strait, and in 1581 sent an expedition of twenty-four vessels with 2, 500 men from Cadiz, under the command of Sarmiento de Gamboa and Diego Flores Valdez.

Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar, model for the Black Knight

The former Spanish ambassador to London, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, was blatantly satirized and caricatured in the play as the Machiavellian Black Knight.

Based on Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, who was the Spanish ambassador to London.

* Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar ( 1567-1626 ), Spanish diplomat

To strike at her would be an embarrassment to the new ambassador, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, soon to be conde de Gondomar.

* Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar (" Senor Gondomar ") was the Spanish ambassador at the court of James I of England in the periods 1613-1618 and 1619-1622 ( and Elizabeth Hatton's neighbour for at least part of that time ).

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* Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish diplomat

* 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist ( d. 1918 )

Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

However, the title of discoverer of Chile is usually assigned to Diego de Almagro.

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.

The friar Diego de Landa reported about Yucatán instances, and there have been similar reports by Purchas from Popayán, Colombia, and from the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, where human flesh was called long pig.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

Its highest mountain is Diego de Ocampo, close to Santiago, with 1, 249 m. There are several small plains between this range and the Atlantic Ocean.

Diego de Almagro, ( c. 1475 – July 8, 1538 ), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo ( The Elder ), was a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro.

Diego de Almagro was born in the Spanish city signified by his last name, being the illegitimate son of Juan de Montenegro and Elvira Gutiérrez.

To save Elvira's honor, her family kept her infant and took him to the near village of Bolaños de Calatrava, and Diego was later transferred to Aldea del Rey under the tutelage of Sancha López del Peral.

Although by this time Diego de Almagro had already acquired sufficient wealth in the conquest of Peru and was living a luxurious life in Cuzco, the prospect of conquering the lands further south was very attractive to him.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

Capture and execution of Diego de Almagro ( Engraving, circa 1600 ).

Tradition suggests that the island took its name from the Spanish navigator Diego García de Moguer, who discovered the island in the 1500s.

In 1778 the French Governor of Mauritius granted Monsieur Dupuit de la Faye the island of Diego Garcia, and there is evidence of temporary French visits to collect coconuts and fish.

In 1882 the French-financed, Mauritian-based Societe Huilere de Diego et Peros ( the " Oil Can Company of Diego and Peros "), consolidated all the plantations in the Chagos under its control.

In 1962 the Chagos Agalega Company of the British colony of Seychelles purchased the Societe Huiliere de Diego et Peros and moved company headquarters to Seychelles.

Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.

He had accompanied as canon Diego de Acebo, Bishop of Osma on a diplomatic mission to Denmark, to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark.

In 1534 Sebastián de Belalcázar along with Diego de Almagro established the city of San Francisco de Quito on top of the ruins of the secondary Inca capital naming it in honor of Pizzaro.

Diego de Rosales was ordered to the area by the Governor of Chile Francisco Antonio de Acuña Cabrera y Bayona who was concerned about the unrest of the native Puelches and Poyas after the slave hunting expeditions carried out by Luis Ponce de León in 1649.

A portrait of Gondomar, attributed to Diego Velázquez, was formerly at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

In 1650 Algardi met Diego Velázquez, who obtained commissions for his work from Spain.

It has been discovered in considerable quantity at Pala in San Diego county, California ; Caceres, Spain ; and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

In the spring of 1203, Dominic joined Prior Diego on an embassy to Denmark for the monarchy of Spain.

Prior Diego died, after two years in the mission field, on his return trip to Spain.

He was alarmed by the Spanish diplomat Don Diego de Gardoqui, who in 1785 tried to convince Congress to allow Spain to close the Mississippi River to American traffic for 30 years.

In Spain, Honorius was deeply suspicious of the ambitions of Diego Gelmírez, the Archbishop of Compostela.

Still hoping to be promoted to the office of Legate of Spain, Diego sent envoys to Rome, carrying with them 300 gold Almoravid coins, two hundred and twenty for Honorius and another eighty for the Curia.

* 1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.

* Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar of Spain ( 1578 – 1630 ), nobleman and Viceroy of New Spain and Peru, in office 1612 – 1621 ( New Spain ), 1622 – 1629 ( Peru )

* Diego Velázquez of Spain ( 1599 – 1660 ), painter

* May 14 – Charles III of Spain sends Spanish missionaries, who found California missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Monterey and begin the settlement of California.

This plan, however, was changed within a few months after Gálvez received the following orders: " Occupy and fortify San Diego and Monterey for God and the King of Spain.

In early 1775, Don Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, Viceroy of New Spain, authorized the establishment of two additional mission sites, one of these to be placed at a logical halfway point between Mission San Diego de Alcalá and Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.

He landed on September 28 at San Diego Bay, claiming what he thought was the Island of California for Spain.

Large parts of the old U. S. Business 101 and State Route 82 surface roads between San Francisco and San Diego are designated El Camino Real ( The Royal Road ), a designation originally given any thoroughfare under the direct authority of the King of Spain and his viceroys.

Diego Álvarez Chanca, a physician on Columbus ' second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, brought the first chili peppers to Spain, and first wrote about their medicinal effects in 1494.

Born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Diego, the first child of João Rodrigues da Silva and Jerónima Velázquez, was baptized at the church of St Peter in Seville on Sunday, June 6, 1599.

* Wolf, Norbert ( 1998 ) Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660: the face of Spain Taschen, Köln, ISBN 3-8228-6511-7 ;

* The History of the Indies of New Spain by Diego Durán, translated, annoted and with introduction by Doris Heyden

A trip to Spain for six months confirmed his admiration for the realism of artists such as Diego Velázquez and Jusepe de Ribera.

By 1739, Great Britain and Spain were at war and trouble was brewing for the Diego Plains settlers.