The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1522, when slaves led an uprising in the sugar plantation of admiral Don Diego Colón, son of Christopher Columbus.

* 1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.

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.

The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred on May 28, 1978, when pinch hitter Mike Ivie, acquired from the San Diego Padres during the offseason for Darrel Thomas, hit a towering grand slam off of Dodgers pitching ace Don Sutton in front of Candlestick Park's highest paid attendance of 58, 545.

The race was conceived and directed by Jack Johnstone and Don Shanahan, members of the San Diego Track Club, and was sponsored by the track club.

45 Niggaz, Al Iman Staff, Black Marché, Bouga, Carpe Diem, R. E. D. K, Picrate, L. O, Reso, Teddy, Carré Rouge, Def Bond, El Matador, Faf Larage, Fonky Family, Ghost Dog, IAM, Akhenaton, Shurik ' n, Freeman, K. Rhyme Le Roi, Kamses, Keny Arkana, La Swija, El Sarazino, Diego Moltissanti, Mistral, L ' Algérino, Le 3ème Oeil, Le Venin, Liaisons Meurtrières, K-Rlos, Lorenzo, Lygne 26, Mino, Prodige Namor, Namor, Psy4 De La Rime, Soprano, Alonzo, Vincenzo, Puissance Nord, Révolution Urbaine, Zino, Makiavel, Brigante, S. krim, Sale Equipe, Soul Swing, Zephir, 10Kret, Berreta, Kalash L ' Afro, Césarë, Chiens De Paille, Costello, Veust Lyricist, Don Choa, Sat L ' Artificier, Le Rat Luciano, RPZ, Yak

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.

* Pedro de Cordoba as Don Diego

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.

Wells attended the same San Diego high school, Point Loma High School, as Don Larsen, whose perfect game for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series is the only perfect game ever thrown in postseason play, and was until then the only perfect game thrown by a Yankee.

The land area, that was to become the present-day Saraland, was included in a Spanish land grant to Don Diego Alvarez.

The first Europeans visited the San Gabriel Valley, including Duarte, during a 1769 expedition from San Diego to Monterey Bay commanded by Don Gaspar de Portolà.

An expedition from San Diego passed through en route to Monterey Bay, commanded by Don Gaspar Portola.

By 1703, Don Diego Espinoza had settled in what is today the Palm Valley area.

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.

Portrait of Sebastián de Morra | The Dwarf Don Sebastián de Morra, by Diego Velázquez | Velázquez.

Don Coryell, the coach at San Diego State University when Gillman was coaching the San Diego Chargers, would bring his team to Chargers ' practices to watch how Gillman ran his practices.

Lead guitarist Jerry Miller and drummer Don Stevenson ( both formerly of The Frantics, originally based in Seattle ) joined guitarist ( and son of actress Loretta Young ) Peter Lewis ( of The Cornells ), bassist Bob Mosley ( of The Misfits, based in San Diego ) and Spence, now on guitar instead of drums.

Don Lee brought its four owned-and-operated stations — KHJ – Los Angeles, KFRC – San Francisco, KGB – San Diego, and KDB – Santa Barbara — along with six California affiliates and, via shortwave hookup, two more in Hawaii.

The first European to find Ulithi was the Portuguese navigator Diego da Rocha, in 1526, but it remained undisturbed by Europeans until rediscovered by Captain Don Bernard de Egui in 1712, and later visited by Spanish Jesuit missionaries led by Juan Antonio Cantova in 1731.

* Don Diego de Gardoqui

Negotiations in 1785 – 1786 between John Jay and Don Diego de Gardoqui failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion.

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.

The first Spanish colony was established in 1584 by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, who founded Nombre de Jesús and Rey Don Felipe on the northern shore of the strait.

With only four vessels, Sarmiento de Gamboa continued the voyage, arriving in January 1583 at a favorable point, where he established a fort and colony garrisoned by 300 men which he called Rey Don Felipe.

Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn, who danced the `` Nutcracker '' pas de deux, were also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from `` Don Quixote '', another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely.

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.

He was half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja ( 1460 – 88 ) and Girolama de Borja, children of unknown mothers.

(; ), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.

He dons an old suit of armour, renames himself " Don Quixote de la Mancha ," and names his skinny horse " Rocinante ".

Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré

Sources for Don Quixote include the Castillian novel Amadis de Gaula, which had enjoyed great popularity throughout the 16th century.

About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.

The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.

Bronze statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, at the Plaza de España in Madrid

In July 1604, Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha ( known as Don Quixote, Part I ) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum.

* Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda – author of a spurious sequel to Don Quixote, which in turn is referenced in the actual sequel

* Amadis de Gaula – one of the chivalric novels found in the library of Don Quixote

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