* HistoryLink: Spanish Exploration ( 1775 ), with maps and references.

* Spanish Exploration and Conquest of North America

The first European settlers to the area of Daphne came in 1540 during the period of Spanish Exploration.

Similar Spanish fortifications of the 17th-18th centuries can be seen in Cuba, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Veracruz and Acapulco, Mexico, Portobelo and Panama City, Panamá, and many other Latin American locations which were governed as part of the Spanish Empire during the Age of Exploration.

Vizcaíno and Spanish Exploration in the Pacific Ocean, 1580-1630.

Repsol brings together the companies in which the Spanish government had a majority ownership in the areas of Exploration and Production ( formerly Hispanoil ) and Production, Refining ( formerly ENPETROL ), Chemical and Liquefied Natural Gas ( LNG ), Butane ( former Butano SA ), CAMPSA and Petronor.

After the arrest of a Spanish fishing vessel by the Royal Gibraltar Police in 1998, the problem largely subsided, although the operation of Odyssey Marine Exploration in the area is currently being contested in the Florida Court.

* Spanish Exploration: Hezeta ( Heceta ) and Bodega y Quadra Expedition of 1775 to Formally Claim the Pacific Northwest for Spain

Despite some military attempts by the Spanish to retake it in the 18th century, most notably in the Great Siege of 1779 – 1783, the Rock has remained under British control ever since.

* January 21 – Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, Spanish military officer ( d. 1779 )

The Spanish destroyed the British colony in 1717, 1730, 1754 and 1779.

California's first vineyard was located on the Mission grounds, with the planting of the " Mission " or " Criollo " grape in 1779, one grown extensively throughout Spanish America at the time but with " an uncertain European origin.

In 1779 a third Spanish expedition, under the command of Ignacio de Artega in the ship Princesa, and with Quadra as captain of the ship Favorite, sailed from Mexico to the coast of Alaska, reaching 61 ° N. Two further Spanish expeditions, in 1788 and 1789, both under Esteban Jose Martínez and Gonzalo López de Haro, sailed to the Pacific Northwest.

After their defeat at the Battle of Baton Rouge in 1779, the English yielded control of Natchez to the Spaniards, and this led to several years of fighting as the English settlers resisted Spanish rule over them.

British rule persisted from 1763 to 1779, and then Spanish rule from 1779 to 1798.

The Englishman Sir John Acton, who in 1779 was appointed director of marine, won Maria Carolina's favour by supporting her scheme to free Naples from Spanish influence, securing rapprochement with Austria and Great Britain.

The colony was attacked in 1778 by the Willing Expedition and then overrun in 1779 – 81 by Spanish forces under Bernardo de Gálvez, culminating in the Siege of Pensacola.

León has fine examples of Spanish Colonial architecture, including the grand Cathedral of the Assumption, built from 1706 to 1740, with two towers added in 1746 and 1779.

* The third Gibraltar was an American 14-gun brig captured in 1779, then in turn captured by the Spanish in 1781 and renamed Salvador, then recaptured by HMS Anson in 1800.

* Old Stone Fort Museum built in 1779 by Antonio Gil Y ' Barbo, the earliest Spanish settler of Nacogdoches, and was rebuilt on campus.

Fort Bute or Manchac Post, named after the then British Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, was established in 1763 at the junction of Iberville River ( Bayou Manchac ) with the Mississippi River, and remained an important British military and trading post in West Florida until captured by Spanish forces under Bernardo Galvez of Louisiana on September 7, 1779, during what became known as Battle of Fort Bute of the American Revolutionary War.

Basset, a mine owner, gained his titles for erecting earthworks to defend Plymouth from combined French and Spanish fleets in 1779, and suppressing a miners ' " food riot " in 1785.

In 1797 Godoy had Charles IV grant the titles of 1st Condesa de Castillo Fiel with a Coat of Arms of de Tudó and 1st Vizcondesa de Rocafuerte ( Letters of July 14, 1807 ) to Godoy's mistress Josefa Petra Francisca de Paula ( Pepita ) de Tudó y Cathalán, Alemany y Luecia, born in Cádiz on May 19, 1779, Dame of Her Royal Majesty the Queen and 385th Noble Dame of the Royal Order of Queen María Luisa, daughter of Antonio de Tudó y Alemany, Brigadier of the Royal Spanish Armies, Governor of the Royal Place of Buen Retiro, and wife Catalina Cathalán y Luecia.

The ceremony's origins date from the Great Siege of Gibraltar, which started in 1779 when French and Spanish troops attempted to capture Gibraltar.

The Spanish declared war on Britain in 1779, drawing off forces from Fort St. Mark and keeping the British occupied.

In July 1779, Gibraltar was besieged by the French and Spanish.

The 1779 expedition of Spanish explorer Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán sighted the island about July 16, the feast day of Our Lady of Mt.

The version herewith was derived largely from my own personal researches in libraries, achieves, old manuscripts and documents, rare maps, civil and church records as early as year 1779, encyclopedia of the Philippines islands by Blair and Robertson, census records during Spanish time, Guia official de las Islas Filipinas and many more from 1571-1898.

Previously, between 1740 and 1779, Neograndans had expressed displeasure — at times violently — about the long-standing conditions and policies enforced by the Spanish government.

When Spain entered the War in 1779, Bernardo de Gálvez, the energetic governor of Spanish Louisiana, immediately began offensive operations to gain control of British West Florida.