* 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.

After the death of the Pueblo leader Popé, Diego de Vargas restored the area to Spanish rule.

* September 14 – Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a 12-year exile following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

After the Spanish Reconquest of 1692, Taos Pueblo continued armed resistance to the Spanish until 1696, when Governor Diego de Vargas defeated the Indians at Taos Canyon.

The Spanish were expelled from the territory for 12 years following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, returning in 1692 in the " bloodless " reoccupation of Santa Fe by Diego de Vargas.

Fiestas de Santa Fe has been held since 1712 to celebrate the Spanish retaking of the city in 1692 by Don Diego de Vargas from the Pueblo tribes who had occupied the city since the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

His burning marks the start of three days of celebration that includes traditional mass at St. Francis Cathedral ; a reenactment of the Entrada, when Don Diego de Vargas returned to the city ; a Children's Pet Parade ; and the Historical / Hysterical Parade.

The first European know to visit this area was Don Diego de Vargas in 1694, but he left behind no colonists.

Agua Fria Village became a place of modern recorded settlement in New Mexico when Sergeant Major ( Maestro Campo ) Roque Madrid was given a land grant on the Santa Fe River from Ojito Fresco to Pueblo Quemado in 1693 by General Don Diego de Vargas for his service in the 1692 “ Reconquest ” of New Mexico by the Spanish Crown.

Oil on canvas portrait of Diego de Vargas by Julio Barrera, date unknown, from the collection of the Palace of the Governors.

However, after the 1680 revolt, it was decided by the new Spanish governor in 1695 under Diego de Vargas to establish a new Spanish villa for the recent settlers that had arrived from Mexico City to help settle and campaign against the rebellious natives.

In 1692, Diego de Vargas led a new group of settlers north across the Jornada del Muerto to northern New Mexico.

You can expect in coming seasons to hear Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko, Thomas Hampson, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marcello Giordani, Ramón Vargas, Marcelo Alvarez, Juan Diego Flórez, Ben Heppner, Natalie Dessay, and Angela Gheorghiu – among many others.

In August 1692, Diego de Vargas marched to Santa Fe unopposed along with a converted Zia war captain, Bartolomé de Ojeda.

Juan Carlos Moreno, born in Maiquetía, Vargas State, Venezuela, is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Texas Rangers ( 2001 ) and San Diego Padres ( 2002 ).

Father Diego de Torres Vargas ( 1590 – 1649 ), a priest, was the first person to write a book about the history of Puerto Rico.

Diego de la Torre de Vargas died in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1649

The orange color was based and taken from Father Diego de Torres Vargas ' text and it reads: " Escudo de armas dado a Puerto Rico por los Reyes Católicos en el año de 1511, siendo Procurador un vecino llamado Pedro Moreno.

In 1692, the Spanish, led by Don Diego de Vargas, reconquered New Mexico.

File: Top View of Diego de la Haya, Irazu Volcano, Costa Rica-Daniel Vargas. jpg | Top view of Diego de la Haya

File: Sunset at Diego de la Haya Crater, Irazu Volcano, Costa Rica-Daniel Vargas. jpg | Sunset at Diego de la Haya crater

* ( 1636-1643 ): Diego Zapata de Cárdenas

He was succeeded as capitan mayor in the next twenty years from 1701 to 1721 by distinguished gentlemen such as Nicolas Mendiola, Rufino Carlos, Simeon Dimacali, Lorenzo Bondoc, Nicolas Timbol, Martin Dimacali, Diego Laqui, Cristobal Lumanug, Nicolas Lumanug, Gaspar Zapata, Juan Nuqui, Tomas Tayag, Pedro Calaquian, Nicolas de la Cruz, Agustin Pangan, Romulo Carlos, Sebastian Sanchez, Nicolas Catacutan, Bartolome Munoz, Jose Lopez and Gregorio Laxamana.

In 1640, searching for gold, Captain Fernando del Toro Zapata and Diego Beltran del Castillo arrived at Guarne.