Coronado was born into a well-to-do family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510, the second son of Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Sosa de Ulloa and Isabel de Luján.

* Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Anaya ( Costa Rica )

In 1870, Vásquez organized a bandit gang which included the notorious Juan Soto, and later, Procopio Bustamante.

* The novel Historia secreta de Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, tells the fictional story of José Altamirano, the Colombian " informant " of Joseph Conrad that the Polish-born author all but erased from his famous tale.

Supporters of Vásquez were known as Horacistas, as opposed to Jimenistas, supporters of Vásquez's main rival, Juan Isidro Jimenes.

As viceroy, Mendoza commissioned the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to explore and establish settlements in the northern lands of New Spain in 1540-42, the expedition of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to explore the western coastline of Alta California in 1542-43, and the expedition of Ruy López de Villalobos to the Philippines in 1542-43.

For his third straight year, He qualified for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup held in Shanghai and successfully defended his title by defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final, 7 – 5, 7 – 5, 2 – 6, 2 – 6, 6 – 4.

In the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924 a team composed by Juan Miles, Enrique Padilla, Juan Nelson, Arturo Kenny, G. Brooke Naylor and A. Peña obtained the gold medal ; this also occurred in Berlín 1936 with players Manuel Andrada, Andrés Gazzotti, Roberto Cavanagh, Luis Duggan, Juan Nelson, Diego Cavanagh and Enrique Alberdi.

Coupled with powerful batters like Juan González, Rubén Sierra, Julio Franco, and Rafael Palmeiro and a pitching staff that also included Charlie Hough, Bobby Witt, Kevin Brown, and Kenny Rogers, fans held really high expectations for the Rangers upcoming season.

Before 1850, most of the freshwater on the islands was held in beaver ( Castor canadensis ) ponds, although the aquatic mammal was extirpated by Hudson's Bay Company fur stations at Fort Langley and San Juan Island.

The island was originally named Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held by Spanish Commander of the Nootka Sound settlement Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British Naval Captain George Vancouver on Nootka Sound in 1792, to find a solution to the Nootka Crisis.

* Host of Major League Baseball's 2010 " San Juan Series ", three games of the Mets at Marlins held on June 28 – 30, 2010 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium.

Bolivian President Evo Morales met King Juan Carlos and held talks with Zapatero during a visit to Spain in September 2009 with the intention of resolving issues concerning the nationalisation of the Bolivian energy sector.

Their rivalry has not always been peaceful — on May 21, 2004, following a dinner held by King Juan Carlos I of Spain on the eve of the wedding of his son Felipe, Prince of Asturias, Vittorio Emanuele punched Amedeo twice in the face.

He held a command in the Juan de Grijalva expedition sent from Cuba against Yucatán in the spring of 1518, and returned in a few months, bearing reports of the wealth and splendour of Moctezuma II's empire.

Though the current Pumpkin Festival is held at Juan Bautista de Anza Park in Calabasas, the original festival was meant to have taken place where, according to legend, a traveling wagon carrying pumpkins overturned and started the area's first pumpkin patch.

During the 1980s, notable players followed in the footsteps of players such as Juan " Pachin " Vicens ( Named Greatest Basketball Player in the World at the Basketball World Championship, held in Santiago, Chile, 1959 ) and Butch Lee, the first Puerto Rican and BSN player to enter the NBA.

On March 22, 2005, López held a press conference in San Juan, that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

On the night of the Miss Universe 2002 contest, she passed on her crown, once again in Puerto Rico ( this time the event was held in the city of San Juan ), to Oxana Fedorova of Russia.

In a bout held at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California on November 3, 1987, against Mexico's Juan Estrada, Dávila suffered an accidental headbutt and was given the victory through a technical decision.

The concert in San Juan was supposed to be held at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, but due to ongoing strikes and protests at the university against the government, the band moved it to the Centro de Bellas Artes in Caguas.

* 1979 Pan American Games men's competition held in San Juan, Puerto Rico and won by Argentina

* 8th Pan American Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico

A copy of the Spanish Constitution, signed by Juan Carlos I of Spain | King Juan Carlos, is held at the Palace of the Spanish Congress | Cortes.

Their fields reaching to the boundaries of what the old farm, a necessary step to the lines that made the voyage from Saltillo to the people of Nazas, cotton cultivation reached the hacienda by Juan Flores and Mayor Nepomeceno brought an ingenious system of dams that held the waters of the river Nazas.

* Central American and Caribbean Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico

On 22 July, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr and an acknowledged expert on Spain, travelled with several other German officers to Madrid, Spain, where they held talks with Spanish ruler General Francisco Franco and General Juan Vigón, his Minister of War.

* Tren Urbano-Provides passenger train service between various points of the San Juan Metropolitan Area, between Bayamón, Guaynabo and several important sections of San Juan.

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, a series of names honoring various saints and relatives.

The San Juan Islands were part of the traditional area of various peoples of the Coast Salish ethnolinguistic group.

Chile's football federation committee, led by Carlos Dittborn and Juan Pinto Durán, toured many countries convincing various football associations about the country's ability to organize the tournament in comparison to Argentina's superior sports infrastructure and prestige.

Once Meléndez left Menudo, he tried various business ventures, including a shop at Plaza Las Americas in San Juan, and became a lawyer.

The museum's permanent collection includes works by modern and contemporary Basque and Spanish artists like Eduardo Chillida, Juan Munoz and Antonio Saura, as well as works from the foundation, and it has organized various exhibitions curated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The company grew during the 1990s, adding flights to San Juan, Puerto Rico, various spots in Mexico and other destinations.

Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar ( 1550 – 1626 ) was a Mexican explorer, colonial governor of the New Spain province of New Mexico, and founder of various settlements in the present day American Southwest.

Serving in the armed forces is considered an expectation of the heir apparent, and Juan Carlos served in the various branches of the armed forces before he became king.

Juan Carlos I " which are broadcast by radio and television through various media outlets.

Andersen's tale is based on a story from the Libro de los ejemplos ( or El Conde Lucanor, 1335 ), a medieval Spanish collection of fifty-one cautionary tales with various sources such as Aesop and other classical writers and Persian folktales, by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena ( 1282 – 1348 ).

The Conjunto de la Secretaría de Cultura ( Secretary of Culture Complex ) is a series of buildings around a central plaza that contains a Juan Soriano sculpture by the nameof “ El Toro .” The three main buildings are the Edificio de Talleres which is for workshops on various artistic disciplines, the Casa de la Cultura Alfonso Michel or Edificio Central, which hosts various exhibitions along with a permanent collection of works by Alfonso Michel and Museo de las Culturas de Occidente María Ahumada de Gómez ( María Ahumada de Gómez Museum of Western Cultures. The Ahumada Museum has a large collection of archeological pieces from the region.

He also was a freemason, supported various liberals, such as the writer Juan Montalvo, to whom he offered monetary assistance.

Also dating from this period are various important still lifes, such as Game Fowl, Fruit and Vegetables by Sánchez Cotán, and the group of works by Juan van der Hamen that was enriched in 2006 by the acquisition of the Naseiro Collection.

Although the various iterations of the Don Juan myth show some variation, the basic storyline remains the same.

The statement regarding two different volleys of shots was upheld by various people, including ex-officer Jesus Quiñones before a Federal grand jury ( he quit the force shortly after the shootings ), and three other civilian witnesses in a San Juan Star interview.

Calle del Laurel, known as " the path of the elephants " and Calle San Juan are typical streets where various restaurants and tapas bars offer some of the best pinchos and tapas in northern Spain.

The exact nature of Francis's surrender — in particular, who exactly had taken him prisoner — is uncertain, with a variety of candidates ranging from Alonso Pita da Veiga, Juan de Urbieta and Diego Dávila to Lannoy himself being put forward by various historians.

According to various sources, he may have left for the New World with Christopher Columbus as early as 1498, but Juan de Castellanos wrote that he killed a mule in 1507, and fled Spain for the West Indies due to fear of punishment, and as a chance to escape the poverty in which he lived.

In the books don Juan was an expert in the cultivation and use of various psychotropic plants ( specifically, psychedelic mushrooms, datura and peyote ) found in the Mexican deserts.

The funeral guard was held on January 18 in the Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium with a rotatory guard of politicians, public servicemen and the various sport teams of Ponce.

* Cuyo ( Mendoza, La Rioja, San Luis, San Juan )-Contains ground beef, onions ( yellow and / or green ), green olives, hard boiled eggs, and various spices ( cumin, paprika, oregano, etc.