The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

A variety of people settled on the islands: pirates, refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, and slaves.

The Spanish settled along the north coast of today's Colombia in the early 16th century, but their first permanent settlement, at Santa Marta, was not established until 1525.

Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.

Conflicting claims to the mainland were settled in 1900 by the Treaty of Paris, and periodically, the mainland territories were united administratively under Spanish rule.

The Spanish delegation retorted that it was only the lazy and unenterprising Goths who had remained in Sweden, whereas the heroic Goths had left Sweden, invaded the Roman empire and settled in Spain.

El Greco, a respected Greek artist from the period, settled in Spain, and infused Spanish art with the styles of the Italian renaissance and helped create a uniquely Spanish style of painting.

Francia had a particular dislike of foreigners, and the recently pre-independence settled Spanish had to intermarry with either the old colonists or the Guarani, to create a single Paraguayan people.

The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel Boone, who had purchased the land from the Spanish prior to the Louisiana Purchase.

In the west and highland areas where the Spanish settled, the indigenous population was almost completely wiped out by the rapid spread of new diseases brought by the Spaniards, for which the native population had no immunity, and the virtual enslavement of the remainder of the indigenous people.

The city, along with most of the settled areas of the state, was abandoned by the Spanish for 12 years ( 1680 – 1692 ) as a result of the successful Pueblo Revolt.

Some areas are drug markets, others are settled by Spanish workers residing there since 20 years ago, and others have families of recently arrived immigrants.

Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists.

In 1783, the proclamation of a Cedula of Population by the Spanish Crown granted 32 acres ( 129, 000 m² ) of land to each Roman Catholic who settled in Trinidad and half as much for each slave that they brought.

The patria of the Ulpii was Italica, in Spanish Baetica, where their ancestors had settled late in the 3rd century BC.

* The Philippine Revolution is settled with Spanish promises to reform.

The Spanish colonists came to South Carolina in the early 16th century and settled at Santa Elena.

The Spanish claimed the islands by original discovery, but did nothing to enforce their claims, and never settled the Territory.

In 1508, Juan Ponce de León settled Puerto Rico, and reports in Spanish journals suggested that the settlement used the Virgin Islands for fishing, but nothing else.

Vieques was periodically settled by the British, but on each occasion they were driven off by Spanish soldiers from nearby Puerto Rico.

The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 settled the War of the Spanish Succession.

In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English, although the Spanish did not relinquish their claim to the island until 1670.

This settlement served as the capital of both Spanish and English Jamaica from its foundation in 1534 until 1872 after which the capital was moved to Kingston.

Spanish Jamaica was subject to many privateer attacks, before the final conquest of the island by the English in 1655.

" This is borne out by the much more detailed history of Spanish Jamaica by Francisco Morales Padrón.

* Spanish occupation of Santiago ( Jamaica )

Spanish Jamaica.

1: Newfoundland ; 2: Nova Scotia ; 3: The Thirteen Colonies ; 4: Bermuda ; 5: Bahamas ; 6: British Honduras ( was Spanish c1750: became British in 1798 ); 7: Jamaica ; 8: British Leeward Islands and Barbados

From 1953 to 1983 the Jamaica Omnibus Service operated a service, which at its peak consisted of over 600 buses and served an area spanning Spanish Town, Border, Mt.

* June 25 – 27 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Rio Nuevo: A Spanish invasion force fails to recapture Jamaica from the English.

Operating out of Jamaica, he carried on a war against Spanish interests in the region, often using cunning tactics.

The British then assembled the largest fleet in Jamaica seen before, consisting of 186 ships ( 60 more than the famous Spanish Armada of Philip II ) on board of which were 2620 artillery pieces and more than 27, 000 men, among which are included 10, 000 British soldiers responsible for initiating the assault, 12, 600 sailors, slaves of Jamaica macheteros 1000 and 4000 recruits from Virginia led by Lawrence Washington, brother of the father would be the independence of the United States.

( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.

* Santiago, a Spanish possession that later became Jamaica

* Spanish Town or Santiago de la Vega, Jamaica

Lambeth also has twinning arrangements with Bluefields in Nicaragua ; Moskvoretsky in Russia ( although this is abeyance since changes to the city government of Moscow ); Brooklyn, New York in the United States ; Shinjuku in Japan ; and Spanish Town in Jamaica.

The earliest recorded European contact occurred in 1696 when a British ship, the barkentine ( three-masted ship ) Reformation, sailing from Jamaica to Philadelphia sank close to the shore north of Jupiter Inlet, carrying 25 passengers and crew and a cargo of sugar, rum, beef, molasses, and Spanish currency.

The first known Spanish landing on the Yucatán Peninsula was a product of misfortune, when in 1511 a small vessel bound for the island of Santo Domingo from Darién, Panama ran aground on some shoals in the Caribbean Sea, south of the island of Jamaica.

Following the 1492 expulsion from Spain, and the subsequent expulsions in Portugal ( 1497 ), these Jews, the nascent Sephardim, settled mainly in the Ottoman Empire ( primarily in the province of Bosnia, Anatolia, the Levant and Ottoman North Africa ), Morocco and Algeria, southern France, Italy, Spanish North America, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic ( Southwest United States New Mexico ( Hispano ), Texas ( Tejano ), Arizona, and Mexico ), Spanish South America and Portuguese Brazil and Goa, as well as the Netherlands, whence a number of families continued on to the former Dutch possessions of Curaçao, Suriname, Aruba and New Netherland ( now New York ), England ( as well as English colonies such as Barbados and Jamaica ), Germany, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Hungary.

The Spanish began to create permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba, soon after Columbus ' arrival in the Caribbean, but the coast of Cuba was not fully mapped until 1509, when Sebastián de Ocampo completed this task.

The first Spanish settlement was founded in 1509 near St Anne's Bay and named Seville.

* February 16 – Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish explorer ( b. 1509 )

Around 1509, under a land grant from the Spanish king, he became founder and governor of Castilla de Oro, in what is now Panama, one of the first two Spanish settlements on the American mainland ( different sources give dates from 1508 to 1510 ).

The Spanish founded San Sebastian de Uraba in 1509 — abandoned within the year, and in 1510 the first permanent Spanish mainland settlement in America, Santa María la Antigua del Darién.

In the late 18th century, when the area was associated with a large amount of land situated along the lower basin of the Rio Hondo area in Los Angeles County, Bell Gardens was once a bustling agricultural center for Californios during the Spanish Empire, 1509 – 1823, the Mexican government, 1823 – 1848, and the United States, after the Mexican-American war concluded in 1848.

Oran was founded in 903 by Moorish Andalusi traders but was captured by the Spanish under Cardinal Cisneros in 1509.

In 1509 Ferdinand II of Aragon ordered that Indians be imported from nearby islands to make up the population losses in Hispaniola, and the Spanish began capturing Lucayans in the Bahamas for use as laborers in Hispaniola.

1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553 ) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist.

* November 21-Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist ( born c. 1509 )

Only this archipelago and the possessions of Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña ( 1476 – 1524 ), Melilla ( conquered by Pedro de Estopiñán in 1497 ), Villa Cisneros ( founded in 1502 in current Western Sahara ), Mazalquivir ( 1505 ), Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera ( 1508 ), Oran ( 1509 – 1790 ), Algiers ( 1510 – 1529 ), Bugia ( 1510 – 1554 ), Tripoli ( 1511 – 1551 ), Tunis ( 1535 – 1569 ) and Ceuta ( ceded by Portugal in 1668 ) remained as Spanish territory in Africa.

The Spanish settlement on Jamaica island was in 1509, named then Isla de Santiago ( by Sant Iago Apostol ), in Sevilla la Nueva.

When the Spanish took the city of Oran from the kingdom in 1509, continuous pressure from the Berbers prompted the Spanish to attempt a counterattack against the city of Tlemcen ( 1543 ), which was deemed by the Papacy to be a crusade.

In 1509, Vasco Núñez de Balboa established the first settlement and is now named the first city of Colombia, as an advanced guard of the Spanish invasion and conquest.

* April 29-Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer, explorer and cartographer ( born c. 1509 ) ( beheaded by Spanish troops in Panama ).

Narváez took part in the Spanish conquest of Jamaica in 1509.

Ferdinand's first investment of Spanish forces came in the War of the League of Cambrai against Venice, where the Spanish soldiers distinguished themselves on the field alongside their French allies at the Battle of Agnadello ( 1509 ).