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    Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (August 14, 1645 – August 22, 1700) was one of the first great intellectuals born in the Americas - Spanish viceroyalty...
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    Catholic missionary (d. 1711) August 14 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican academic (d. 1700) August 16 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696) August...
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  • into the possession of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. For an account of what happened to these documents after the death of Sigüenza, see Lorenzo Boturini...
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    Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645 - 1700) was the youngest son of eight children and was related to the famous Baroque Culteranismo poet Luis de Góngora...
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  • forgotten. His son, Juan de Alva Cortés, inherited his documents and before his death were given to Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. Huematzin, 8th century...
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  • Laguna de Camero Viejo, the new Viceroys, to Mexico City. The first, displayed in Santo Domingo, was created by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. The second...
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    perhaps earlier, Sor Juana became intimate friends with Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, who visited her in the convent's locutorio. She stayed cloistered...
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    Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora was able to save most of the documents, at the risk of his life. Some nearby houses and shops were also burned. Sigüenza...
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    of Spanish writers Góngora and Quevedo. Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Diego de Ribera were major exponents...
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    patriot and savant Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, who took the Italian traveler to the great ruins of Teotihuacan. Sigüenza spoke with Gemelli about...
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  • notable individuals: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican colonial officer, author and polymath Herbert Siguenza, actor Peter C. Siguenza, Guam's former Chief...
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    Augustinian philosopher, historian, and intellectual figure. Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645–1700), cartographer, historian and philosopher of the late...
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    (along with the New Spain writers Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora). Juan de Espinosa Medrano is the author of the most famous...
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  • Poems August 14 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (died 1700) August 16 or 17 – Jean de La Bruyère, French...
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  • Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez (Spanish: Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez) is a 1690 book by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, a Mexican writer retelling the story of Alonso...
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    written by Jerónimo de Mendieta, (d. 1605), a Franciscan missionary and historian in early New Spain, and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Florencia's censor...
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  • English mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627) August 22 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (born 1645)...
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    find the entrance. In 1693 noted cartographer and scientist Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora was sent by the Spanish government to locate the entrance. Even...
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    of 17th-century Spanish intellectual and Mexico City native, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. In 2024 he published a historical novel about the intervention...
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    España. Figures such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, and don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, stand out as some of the viceroyalty's...
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    with Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora when he arrived in the capital, but published a scathing dismissal on religious grounds of Sigüenza's scientific...
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    Florencia had on loan from the famous scholar and polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora two such documentary sources, one of which – the antigua relación...
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    Informaciones Jurídicas de 1666 and the assertions of Luis Becerra Tanco and, subsequently, Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora as to Valeriano's authorship...
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    "creole patriotism". Seventeenth-century cleric and scientist, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora acquired the manuscript collection of Texcocan nobleman Alva...
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    cleric piecing together an income from multiple posts is Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, one of New Spain's most distinguished intellectuals, who had...
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    "place of the nopal," referring to the myth of its discovery. Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora gives the day 18 July 1327, but at least three other codices...
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  • Pensacola. De Pez sailed from Veracruz on March 25, 1693, taking with him the pre-eminent scientist and cartographer Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. They...
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    José de Escandón to inspect the northern frontier of the North American colonies. Escandón assigned La Bahía's captain, Joaquín Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra...
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    the documents and some paintings are saved by royal geographer Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. June 10 – The Salem witch trials' first victim, Bridget Bishop...
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  • Saint-Louis, Texas, was founded in 1685 by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle and members of his expedition, including Jesuit missionary Zenobius...
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