* Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese navigator, makes the first documented European landing in North America since c. 1000 A. D.

* probable – Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( b. 1450 )

** Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( d. 1501 )

* 1500 — Gaspar Corte-Real made his first voyage to Newfoundland, formerly known as Terras Corte-Real.

* 1502 — Miguel Corte-Real set out for New England in search of his brother, Gaspar.

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During the early 20th century, Edmund B. Delabarre associated the Dighton Rock with the lost Portuguese navigators Miguel Corte-Real and his brother Gaspar.

Cantino planisphere 1502, earliest surviving chart showing the explorations of Christopher Columbus | Columbus to Central America, Gaspar Corte-Real | Corte-Real to Newfoundland, Vasco da Gama | Gama to India and Pedro Álvares Cabral | Cabral to Brazil.

" While further containing complete impossibilities, the text also contain statements that have a sure historical foundation, like the voyage of Gaspar Corte-Real.

Cantino ’ s diligence is shown in two of his letters to the Duke, dated from 17th and 18 October 1501, where he describes, amongst other things, hearing Gaspar Corte-Real detailing his latest voyage to Newfoundland ( Terra Nova ) to King Manuel I of Portugal.

The map makes clear that Greenland had been rediscovered and charted for Portugal, presumably by João Vaz Corte-Real during his service with Pining and Pothorst's 1473 expedition for King Christian I of Denmark or by his son Gaspar during the latter's own 1500 and 1501 expeditions for King Manuel I of Portugal.

Gaspar da Cruz ( c. 1520 – 1570 ), who worked all over the Portuguese colonial empire in Asia, was probably the first Christian missionary to preach ( unsuccessfully ) in Cambodia.

* Gaspar Yanga's Revolt ( c. 1570 ) near the Mexican city of Veracruz ; the group escaped to the highlands and built a free colony

José Gaspar, known by his nickname Gasparilla ( supposedly lived c. 1756 – 1821 ), was a purported Spanish pirate, the " last of the Buccaneers ," who is claimed to have raided the west coast of Florida during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Gloria Anzaldua.

* 1688 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman ( b. 1634 )

Almagro undertook his first conquest on November 1515, when he left Darien in command of 260 men and founded Villa del Acla, located in the place of the same name, but due to illness he had to leave behind this mission to the licenciate Gaspar de Espinosa.

The most highly sought ( and expensive ) instruments come from Italy and include basses made by Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Gaspar da Salo, the Testore family ( Carlo Antonio, Carlo Giuseppe, Gennaro, Giovanni, Paulo Antonio ), Celestino Puolotti, and Matteo Gofriller.

* Lefebvre, Gaspar.

Directors from nations such as Poland ( Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Andrzej Żuławski ), Argentina ( Gaspar Noe and Edgardo Cozarinsky ), Russia ( Alexandre Alexeieff, Anatole Litvak ) and Georgia ( Gela Babluani, Otar Iosseliani ) are prominent in the ranks of French cinema.

Shortly before leaving he had issued a famous instruction to F. Gaspar Barazeuz who was leaving to go to Ormuz ( a kingdom on an island in the Persian Gulf, now part of Iran ), that he should mix with sinners:

* 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician ( d. 1666 )

( Gaspar Sanz ' Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española of 1674 constitutes the majority of the surviving solo corpus for the era.

William had been trying to influence English politics for well over a year, letting Grand Pensionary Gaspar Fagel publish an open letter to the English people in November 1687 deploring the religious policy of James, which action had generally been interpreted as a covert bid for kingship.

Much of the policy was conducted by the minister Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares.

Leaders of the liberals or reformist forces during this revolution were Jose Menino, Count of Floridablanca, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Pedro Rodriguez, Conde de Campomanes.

Just after independence was achieved, Paraguay was governed from 1814 by the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who closed the borders of the country and prohibited trade or any relation with the exterior until his death in 1840.

* 1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman ( d. 1688 )

The Paraguayan dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia sought to found a society based on the principles set forth in Rousseau's Social Contract.

* 1587 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman ( d. 1645 )

* 1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil ( d. 1974 )

* 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist ( b. 1608 )

Adriana and Gaspar Tasca, both identified as Montoneros, were taken into custody between 7 and 10 December 1977 and remain unaccounted for.

* 1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.

In Gaspar Noé's 2010 film Enter the Void the beginning of the movie is shot in first-person.

Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.