Portuguese-Spaniard Pedro Fernández de Quirós made the first recorded European landing in the islands when he set foot on Rakahanga in 1606, calling it Gente Hermosa ( Beautiful People ).

1606 — Portuguese-Spaniard Pedro Fernández de Quirós made the first recorded European landing in the islands when he set foot on Rakahanga.

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.

In 2004, a multidisciplinary team of academics from Complutense University, led by Francisco Parra Luna, Manuel Fernández Nieto and Santiago Petschen Verdaguer, deduced that the village was that of Villanueva de los Infantes.

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

* 1515 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman ( b. 1453 )

* 1953 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and las Casas documented that the island was called Haití (" Mountainous Land ") by the Taíno.

* 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop ( d. 1709 )

* Mémoire de fin d ' études ; by Vanhulst J .; " Menaces et perspectives pour la préservation de la biodiversité de l ' Archipel Juan Fernández ( CHILI )" — in Spanish-Master IGEAT – ULB, 2009

Ernesto Zedillo of the PRI won with 50. 2 percent of the vote, against 26. 7 percent for Diego Fernández de Cevallos of PAN and 17. 1 percent for Cardenas, who this time represented the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ).

While developing Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded Albuquerque in 1706 from existing surrounding communities, naming it for the viceroy of New Spain, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque.

* 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.

Several works among the best known during this long period could be cited as an example, from Strabo ( Geography ), Eratosthenes ( Geography ) or Dionisio Periegetes ( Periegesis Oiceumene ) in the Ancient Age to the Alexander von Humboldt ( Cosmos ) in the century XIX, in which geography is regarded as a physical and natural science, of course, through the work Summa de Geografía of Martín Fernández de Enciso from the early sixteenth century, which is indicated for the first time the New World.

The arrival of Father Pedro Fernández de la Torre on April 2, 1556, as the first bishop of Asunción marked the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay.

* 1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general ( d. 1515 )

* Leandro Fernández de Moratín ( 1760 – 1828 ) Spanish.

The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Spaniards was Espiritu Santo when, in 1606, the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, spied what he thought was a southern continent.

* El dúo de La africana, Manuel Fernández Caballero

* June 21 – Leandro Fernández de Moratín, dramatist and poet ( b. 1760 )

* Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar of Spain ( 1578 – 1630 ), nobleman and Viceroy of New Spain and Peru, in office 1612 – 1621 ( New Spain ), 1622 – 1629 ( Peru )

Alonso Fernández de Lugo presenting the captured Guanche kings of Tenerife to Ferdinand and Isabella.

The commander of the expedition, Pedro Fernández de Lugo ( governor of the Canary Islands ), had bought the governorship of Colombia and had equipped a fleet and assembled over a thousand men.

Some of its members were journalist Héctor Meléndez Lugo, organizer Wilfredo López Montañez, and San Juan party secretary Marta E. Fernández.

Alonso Fernández de Lugo, conqueror of the Canary Islands, of La Palma ( 1492 ) and Tenerife ( 1495 ), and subsequently the governor of the islands, was born in Sanlúcar.

Beyond the peninsula the term adelantado was granted to Alonso Fernández de Lugo in the conquest of the Canary Islands and was confirmed to members of his family.

* 1535: Pedro Fernández de Lugo for Santa Marta ( as son of Alonso Fernández de Lugo, Adelantado of Tenerife and La Palma, he was a second-generation adelantado ).

The Spaniards were under the command of the Adelantado (" military governor ") Alonso Fernández de Lugo, who had sold his properties in order to finance his conquest of Tenerife.

Fernández de Lugo was aided by the fact that missionaries had already begun to Christianize the Guanches of Tenerife, and several of the Guanches ' menceyatos or kingdoms, which included Guimar, Abona, Adeje, and later Anaga, were friendly to the Castilians ( and known in Spanish as bandos de paz ).

Fernández de Lugo landed at Añazo, near present-day Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in late April, and built the fortified camp of el Real de Santa Cruz.

Advancing towards the interior of the island, Fernández de Lugo confirmed his friendship with the bandos de paz and attempted to reach the same arrangement with other Guanche menceyatos, including Taoro.

In a state of war, Fernández de Lugo advanced through present-day San Cristóbal de La Laguna to the area known as Acentejo.

Fernández de Lugo divided his forces into two, with the Castilians bearing fire-arms taking the advantage.

" the Spanish forces celebrated their triumph, and Alonso Fernández de Lugo erected a hermitage in honor of Our Lady of Victory on the site of the battle.

From its branches a bell was later hung, since the hermitage that Fernández de Lugo built in the same spot lacked a bell tower.

The city was founded between 1496 and 1497 by Alonso Fernández de Lugo and was the capital of the island after the conclusion of the conquest of the islands.

* Alonso Fernández de Lugo ( 1450s – 1525 ), Spanish conquistador

The mencey of Taoro agreed to the release of the hostilities by Alonso Fernández de Lugo ( 1456-1525 ).

Javier Alonso Luis Fernández de Lugo ( died 1525 ) was a Spanish military man, conquistador, city founder, and administrator.

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He was the last king of La Palma to submit himself to the Castilian forces led by Alonso Fernández de Lugo.

A truce, with a promise of gifts and good treatment, was arranged by Fernández de Lugo through Juan de Palma, a relative of Tanausu who had converted to Christianity.