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In the 1520s and 1530s, the Spanish crown had ordered surveys of the isthmus to determine the feasibility of such a canal, but the idea was soon abandoned.
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1520s and 1530s
Fortunately for posterity, this project, occupying the artist for much of the 1520s and 1530s, was more fully realized.
Smallpox also ravaged Mexico in the 1520s, killing 150, 000 in Tenochtitlán alone, including the emperor, and Peru in the 1530s, aiding the European conquerors.
This lasted until the 1520s, when the earls passed out of royal favour, but the 9th earl was reinstated in the 1530s.
With the introduction of the galleon in Portuguese India Armadas over the course of the late 1520s and the 1530s, carracks gradually began to be less armed and became almost exclusively cargo ships ( which is why the Portuguese Carracks were pushed to such large sizes ), leaving any fighting to be done to the galleons.
Henry VIII conducted restoration work in the 1520s and 1530s, during which time the castle was being used as a prison, a depot and as a potential residence for visitors.
Several Italian states followed suit in the 1520s and 1530s — another argument used by the pro-German camp.
Some of his later frottolas are more serious in character, and foreshadow the development of the madrigal, which took place in the late 1520s and 1530s, right after his death.
The Nordic observation of St. Lucy is first attested in the Middle Ages, and continued after the Protestant Reformation in the 1520s and 1530s, although the modern celebration is only about 200 years old.
Such details are first reported by Franz Helm, an author active in Landshut during the 1520s to 1530s, who is also the first to introduce the epithet " the Black " ( in Latinized form, as niger ).
The Ribero maps of the 1520s and 1530s, the Ortelius map of 1570, and the Wright-Molyneux map of 1599 (‘ the best map of the sixteenth century ’) are only a few better-known examples.
The Renaissance architecture of Italian builders of the 1520s and 1530s can also be seen in the former town-hall.
But the Manueline, ogival stained-glass windows in the choir date from the 1520s and 1530s and were produced by Portuguese masters, among them Francisco Henriques.
1520s and Spanish
Following Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas for Spain, the Spanish sent numerous expeditions to the region, and they began their conquest of Maya lands in the 1520s.
Spanish interest in Hispaniola began to wane in the 1520s, as more lucrative gold and silver deposits were found in Mexico and South America.
Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, with Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar sighting an atoll in August 1526.
In the 1520s, while Spanish conquistadors were invading Mexico, they introduced a variety of animals, including cattle, chickens, goats, sheep and pigs.
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs, and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.
The most enduring system of convoys were the Spanish treasure fleets, that sailed from the 1520s until 1790.
* Spanish Colonial style 1520s – c.
When Spanish explorers arrived in the 1520s, they found a ring of Tocobaga villages around the northern half of Tampa Bay from modern-day Pinellas County to Tampa and Calusa villages along the southern portion of the bay in modern-day Manatee County.
Though Spanish sailors probably frequented the island on their way to intercept the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras, Pedro de Quexos was the first documented explorer of the region in the 1520s, naming what is now Santee River the " River Jordan.
The important Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives taught at Corpus during the 1520s while tutor to Mary Tudor, later Mary I of England.
However, with the prospects of new land grants and the acquisition of labour forces, it was not long until Spanish intentions turned to the Maya region, with the first concerted efforts to establish a presence commencing from the 1520s.
According to food writer Karen Hursh Graber, the initial introduction of rice to Spain from North Africa in the 14th century led to the Spanish introduction of rice to Mexico at the port of Veracruz in the 1520s.
The city was largely destroyed in the 1520s by Spanish conquistadores.
It is believed that the Spanish explorer Cristóbal de Olid, upon arriving in the Kingdom of the Purépecha in present-day Michoacán, probably explored some parts of Guanajuato in the early 1520s.
Tzintzuntzan was the capital of the P ’ urhépecha ( or Tarasco ) Empire when the Spanish arrived in the 1520s.
The pre-Hispanic city of Tzintzuntzan extended from Lake Pátzcuaro to the hills just to the east and had a population of between 25, 000 and 30, 000 when the Spanish arrived in the 1520s.
Tzintzuntzan was made the first capital of the new Spanish province of Mechoacan or Michoacán in the 1520s, and Franciscan friars arrived here to evangelize the P ’ urhépecha people.
The Spanish took control of the area in the 1520s.
In the 1520s, Lens was part of the Spanish Netherlands, and only passed back to France in 1659.
One neighborhood which is as old as the historic center is the La Concepción or La Conchita neighborhood ( Barrio de la Concepción ), an area where the Spanish conquistadors settled in the 1520s.
Mitla was still occupied and functioning as the main religious center when the Spanish arrived in the 1520s.
Some of this mixture took place in the mines and plantations of Hispaniola, the other Spanish Caribbean islands following the introduction of sugar production in the 1520s, and also when Africans fled from these estates to unconquered indigenous regions.
Influenced by many Italian Renaissance poets, Garcilaso adapted the eleven-syllable line to the Spanish language in his sonetos ( sonnets ), mostly written in the 1520s, during his Petrarchan period.
The Treasurer on Dávila ’ s expedition, Andres de Cereceda, reported a population of 6, 063 inhabitants under Nicoya ’ s leadership, almost five and a half times larger than the next largest settlement visited by the Spanish along the Pacific coast in the early 1520s ( Peralta 1883: 29-31 ).
1520s and had
A number of the earliest Mannerist artists who had been working in Rome during the 1520s fled the city after the Sack of Rome in 1527.
This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions ( see External links below for facsimiles and translations ) but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations.
Relations between Henry VIII and Mary were strained in the late 1520s when she opposed the King's attempt to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, whom Mary had known for many years.
The name Saitô was adopted from the former shugodai of Mino who had been overcome by the Nagai clan in the 1520s.
Catherine Parr and Margaret had known each other since they both had come to court in the 1520s.
Verdelot, a French composer, had written the pieces in the late 1520s, while he lived in Florence.
It gets its name from the sound that is made by walking in them ( flip-flap had been used in echoic senses since the 1520s ), and is thus an example of onomatopoeia.
After the Edict of Worms had condemned Lutheranism, problems of enforcement emerged during the 1520s, as Charles V's wars against France and commitments in the rest of his empire prevented him from focusing on German religious problems.
Men such as Cardinal Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews and James V's ambassador to France, and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, regent of Scotland in the 1520s, would have had a reasonably high standard of living, including their own servants, while in prison.
However, the first European descriptions of the physical appearance of the Chamoru people in the 1520s and 30s report that both sexes had long black hair which they wore down to their waists or even further.
In the French-speaking parts, reformers like William Farel had been preaching the new faith under Bernese protection since the 1520s, but only in 1536, just before John Calvin arrived there, did the city of Geneva convert to Protestantism.
By the 1520s, the Archbishopric of Ohrid had managed to put practically the entire Serbian Church under its jurisdiction, however by intervention of Mehmed-paša Sokolović in 1557, the latter was renewed and reorganized.
However, had the work not been commissioned by the Swedish King Gustav Vasa, who had in effect broken with the Pope in Rome in the 1520s, the work would not have been possible.
In the late 1520s, Dom João led the opposition to the marriage of John III's brother, Infante Ferdinand, to Dona Guiomar Coutinho, a prominent noble heiress to the great feudal estates of Marialva and Loulé, on the grounds that he had already secretly married her.
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