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Hernando de Alarcón, a Spanish navigator of the 16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the Baja California peninsula, meant to be coordinated with Francisco Vasquéz de Coronado's overland expedition, and for penetrating the lower Colorado River, perhaps as far as the modern California-Arizona boundary.
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* 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
During this expedition, which lasted 14 months, Almagro, Pizarro and Hernando de Luque became close friends.
Garcia was the explorer who sailed to the Río de la Plata in 1526, and possibly with Hernando de Soto's voyage.
Arriving Cajamarca Pizarro sent an embassy, led by Hernando de Soto with 15 horsemen and an interpreter ; shortly thereafter he sent 20 more horsemen led by his brother Hernando Pizarro as reinforcements in case of an Inca attack.
On April 25, 1526, before returning to Mexico Cortes appointed Hernando de Saavedra as governor of Honduras and left instructions to treat the indigenous people well.
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* 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
In 1539 – 42 Hernando de Soto crossed much of the South from Georgia to Arkansas.
* 1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.
* 1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
* 1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
* 1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
Hernando de Soto has argued that an important characteristic of capitalist market economy is the functioning state protection of property rights in a formal property system where ownership and transactions are clearly recorded.
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The first significant contact of the Cocopah with Europeans probably occurred in 1540, when the Spanish explorer Hernando de Alarcón sailed into the Colorado River delta.
The expedition to the lower Colorado River was important as the only recorded European incursion into that region between the expeditions of Hernando de Alarcón and Melchior Díaz in 1540 and the visits of Eusebio Francisco Kino beginning in 1701.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón had four brothers: Pedro Ruiz de Alarcón, who was rector at the College of Saint John Lateran, Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón who was a priest and is known for having written a treatise documenting the non-Christian religious practices of the Nahua Indians of central Mexico, Gaspar and García, about whom little is known.
In 1540, Hernando de Alarcón and his fleet reached the mouth of the Colorado river, intending to provide additional supplies to Coronado's expedition.
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An expedition under Hernando de Alarcón ascended the lower Colorado River and confirmed Ulloa's finding.
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While Cárdenas is credited with being the first European to lay eyes on the Grand Canyon, Hernando de Alarcón had explored the Colorado River several months beforehand.
These voyages were led by Hernando de Alarcón ( 1540 ) and by Francisco de Bolaños ( 1541 ).
Hernando de Alarcón, sent by the viceroy Mendoza — an enemy of Cortés — on a 1540 expedition to verify Cortés's discoveries, referred to the inhospitable lands as California, after the imaginary island in Las Sergas, discussed above.
In 1536, Hernando de Alarcón and Domingo Castillo explored the region and made the first detailed map of the peninsula, giving San Felipe its original name, Santa Catalina.
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* Hernán Cortés ( or Hernando Cortés ) ( 1485 – 1547 ), Spanish conquistador
Pigs were brought to southeastern North America from Europe by Hernando de Soto and other early Spanish explorers.
* Cattle were introduced to Uruguay before its independence by Hernando Arias de Saveedra, the Spanish Governor of Buenos Aires in 1603.
** Hernando del Pulgar, Spanish writer
* May 21 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer, navigator and conquistador ( born c. 1500 )
* April 16 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
* January 6 – Spanish Captain Hernando de Santana founds the city of Valledupar in what is now Colombian territory.
* September 10 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor ( d. 1634 )
* November 28 – Hernando Franco, Spanish composer ( b. 1532 )
* May 8 – Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River, naming it the Rio de Espiritu Santo (" River of the Holy Spirit ").
* September 7 – Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish musician ( died 1602 )
** Hernando Franco, Spanish composer ( d. 1585 )
Variants of the name include Fernán, Fernando, Hernando, and Hernán in Spanish, Ferran in Catalan, and Fernando and Fernão in Portuguese.
European exploration came later, beginning in the 16th century with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
Hernando de Soto ( c. 1496 / 1497 – 1542 ) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European documented to have crossed the Mississippi River.
" Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first expedition into the interior of the North American continent.
It was named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, whose name was also honored in Hernando County.
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