José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was one of the greatest figures in Paraguayan history.

Described in detail by eyewitness Thomé Lopes and chronicler Gaspar Correia as one that is unequalled in cold-blooded cruelty, da Gama looted the ship with over 400 pilgrims on board including 50 women, locked in the passengers, the owner and an ambassador from Egypt and burnt them to death.

For a short time he served with Gaspar de Jáuregui, known as " The Shepherd " ( El Pastor ), one of the minor guerrilla leaders.

After several months with no response from Bonanno, they removed him from power and replaced him with one of his capos, Gaspar DiGregorio.

The barrister Gaspar de Arredondo y Pichardo wrote, " 40 children had their throats cut at the Moca's church, and the bodies found at the presbytery, which is the space that encircles the church's altar ..." This event was one of several documented accounts of acts perpetrated against the Dominicans by General Christophe, under the orders of Dessalines ; they were retreating from the Spanish-ruled side of the island after their failed invasion attempt of 1805.

At one time a captain of the coastguard, at another the protégé of Benavente, viceroy of Naples, who appointed him governor of Scigliano, patronized by Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna and Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Castro was nominated a knight of the order of Santiago in 1623.

She was one of the many children of Gaspar Flores, a harquebusier in the Imperial Spanish army, born in San Germán on the island of San Juan Bautista ( now Puerto Rico ), and his wife, María de Olivia, a native of Lima.

By the 6th century, the name Gaspar was recorded in mosaic at the Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy as one of the traditional names assigned by folklore to the anonymous Magi mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew account of the Nativity of Jesus.

In 1501, one year after the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet in Porto Seguro, Gaspar de Lemos arrived at Todos os Santos Bay and sailed most of the Bahia coast.

In 1913, Don Gaspar introduced one trumpet to the group but it was not well accepted and, in later performances, its high-pitched sound was considered annoying.

Johann Gaspar Spurzheim ( 1776-1832 ) was a German physician who became one of the chief proponents of phrenology created approximately in 1800 by Franz Joseph Gall ( 1758-1828 ).

An interesting European view of the events can be found in the account of Galeote Pereira ( one of the Portuguese sailors captured in March 1549 ), and in the book of the Dominican Gaspar da Cruz ( 1569 ), who apparently had access not only to Pereira's story but to other reports as well.

The historical chronicler, Father Gaspar Frutuoso, stated that at the end of the 16th Century Ponta Delgada was a small population of thirty neighbors and one chapel.

Father Gaspar Frutuoso would later note that the church was one of a succession of churches to be formally built in each of the parishes on the island ( following those of Horta, Feteira and Flamengos ).

During the previous decade the Sforza family, using the composer Gaspar van Weerbeke as a recruiter, had built the choir at their chapel in Milan into one of the largest and most distinguished musical ensembles in Europe: composer-singers such as Alexander Agricola, Loyset Compère and Johannes Martini had all been employed there.

Guanabara Bay was first encountered by Europeans on January 1, 1502, when one of the Portuguese explorers Gaspar de Lemos and Gonçalo Coelho arrived on its shores.

Gaspar Frutuoso ( in Saudades da Terra ), refers to the parish in these terms: " it makes a beautiful bay, and in the centre the locality of Porto Formoso, named for the things that exist there, it is clean and the best one in the north ...".

From this school emerged explorers who found their way to the Indies, South America, North America and Africa, including Gaspar Corte-Real, who was one of the earliest discoverers of Canada.

Caminha's official report and an additional separate letter by the astronomer-physician Mestre João Faras, were given to one of Cabral's captains ( either Gaspar de Lemos or André Gonçalves, sources conflict ).

Located on the Southwestern end of Gaspar Grande, Point Baliene is one of the main drop off sites for visitors to the Gasparee Caves.

Gaspar de San Agustin wrote that being the capital, Mexico was one of the most “ beautiful and charming ” centers in the province.

This is evidently based on a historical incident described by Nostradamus himself in his Traité des fardemens ( Proem, p. 19, 1552 ), involving one Gaspar Ursinus Vellius consellier à Vienne en Austriche, qui un soir soy pourmenant le long du Dannube la terre se fendit, & tumba & se nya (' a councillor at Vienna in Austria who one evening was walking along the Danube, the ground split apart and he fell in and was drowned ').

( The island was reputed to be the place where the Spanish pirate Jose Gaspar had held one of his favorite female captives named Useppa a century earlier, hence the name.

At the age of fifteen Benjamin became a student of the great Spanish cello virtuoso Gaspar Cassadó and moved to Florence and Sienna, Italy for the next three years.

In Spanish tradition on January 6, three of the Kings: Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar, representing Europe, Arabia, and Africa, arrived on horse, camel and elephant, bringing respectively gold, frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus.

Gaspar Frutuoso, noted: "... there is a high cliff, projecting into the ocean, dressed in trees of cedar, laurel and white wood, its area populated by many of the Captain's wild goats whom ... living above are three or four neighbors ... this is the area we call Cedros, for there are many there ".

The historian Gaspar Frutuoso, noted that the Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição ( Church of Our Lady of the Conception ) was constructed with three naves, and five columns on each side, and chapel located on its eastern quarter.

The historian Gaspar Frutuoso, referred to a church of three naves, supported by five columns and wood, with arterial chapels on either side.

True to its name, the island chain consists of three islands named Gaspar, Melchor and Baltazar and are visible from any point of the Gasan coastline.

A stone marker with a plaque commemorates ( now missing ) the three days Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà's expedition camped at the beach to rest and treat their sick in 1769, during his first ( failed ) attempt to reach Monterey Bay.

In order to prevent news of the Spanish advance reaching the inhabitants of the Lacandon area, the governor ordered the capture of three community leaders of San Mateo, named as Cristóbal Domingo, Alonso Delgado and Gaspar Jorge, and had them sent under guard to be imprisoned in Huehuetenango.

The Biblical Magi | Three Magi: Balthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar, from a late 6th century mosaic at the Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy.

Meanwhile, the humanist chronicler Gaspar Frutuoso, writing in the second volume of his work Saudades da Terra mentioned: " These islands, known as Selvagens, apparently were discovered by Castilians, have a Castilian owner, as also Madeira and Azores archipelagos ... which will belong to this glorious and powerful Catholic King, the greatest in the world ".

The area remained uninhabited for many decades until the 16th Century, as Father Gaspar Frutuoso noted is his historical tome Saudades da Terra and where he mentioned the community but omitted whether it was populated.

Its name was derived from the Portuguese phrase terra achanada which means flatland and was first mentioned by the historian Father Gaspar Frutuoso in Saudades da Terra.

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:

During the Spanish Independence War it was used to hold several prisoners captured at the battle of Bailén and later, political prisoners, the most famous of these being the minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos ( 1802 – 1808 ) who first made a description of the castle and commissioned the first blueprints and drawings of it.

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán is recognized as the oldest and most famous mariachi ensemble, founded by Gaspar Vargas in the late 1890s.

Gaspar Henaine Pérez ( January 6, 1926 – September 30, 2011 ) was a Mexican comic actor and singer, who became famous when he partnered with Marco Antonio Campos as the comedy team Viruta y Capulina.

He was a member of the famous Milan chapel of the Sforza family in July 1474, along with Loyset Compère, Gaspar van Weerbeke, and some of the other composers from northern Europe who were part of the first wave of Franco-Flemish influence in Italy.

One of the most famous involves a Spanish ( or Mexican ) princess Gaspar had captured.