• Thumbnail for Francisco de Garay
    Francisco de Garay (1475 in Sopuerta, Biscay – 1523) was a Spanish Basque conquistador. Garay was born in the Garay tower in Sopuerta, in the county of...
    6 KB (745 words) - 15:42, 23 August 2024
  • An expedition was organized to chart the remainder of the Gulf. Francisco de Garay, Governor of the Colony of Santiago, outfitted three ships with two...
    5 KB (688 words) - 13:53, 8 October 2024
  • Garay, de Garay or Garai is a Basque or a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the name include: Antonio Garay (born 1979), American NFL football player...
    2 KB (293 words) - 19:40, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juan de Garay
    Juan de Garay (1528–1583) was a Spanish conquistador. Garay's birthplace is disputed. Some say it was in the city of Junta de Villalba de Losa in Castile...
    8 KB (729 words) - 12:43, 31 August 2024
  • While Aux the Younger was educated, his father was recruited by Francisco de Garay to return to Catalina's lands and establish an official settlement...
    6 KB (813 words) - 15:00, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hispaniola
    forced indigenous labor began early on Hispaniola. Miguel Díaz and Francisco de Garay discovered large gold nuggets on the lower Haina River in 1496. These...
    75 KB (8,103 words) - 18:34, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hernán Cortés
    archenemies Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Diego Columbus and Bishop Fonseca as well as Francisco Garay. The influence of Garay was effectively stopped by...
    79 KB (10,042 words) - 10:20, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diego Columbus
    loyal Colombistas met him at Santo Domingo - his uncle by marriage, Francisco de Garay, whom he named alguacil mayor, and Bartolomé's criados, Miguel Díaz...
    15 KB (1,542 words) - 18:22, 25 October 2024
  • governor, Francisco de Garay, established Villa de la Vega, now known as Spanish Town, as his capital. Juan de Esquivel, 1510–1514 Francisco de Garay, 1514–1523...
    12 KB (1,203 words) - 18:20, 8 September 2024
  • Hernán Cortés who sent Francisco de Montejo to claim the area and by Francisco de Garay, governor of Jamaica, who sent Alonso Alvarez de Pineda. The province...
    2 KB (298 words) - 15:31, 3 September 2022
  • and San Cristóbal. In 1496, according to Floyd, "Miguel Diaz and Francisco de Garay, working their way down the Haina river, discovered rich deposits...
    4 KB (248 words) - 21:56, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juan de Esquivel
    300 pesos of gold. In November 1514, Esquivel had been replaced by Francisco de Garay. According to Bryan Edwards, he was "one of the few Castilians...distinguished...
    8 KB (1,019 words) - 06:07, 17 July 2024
  • European to visit the coastal area adjacent to the Sierra was Francisco de Garay in 1523. Garay found maize cultivation up to about the Tropic of Cancer....
    11 KB (1,091 words) - 02:35, 21 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of people from the Basque Country
    Loyola Adrián de Moxica Juan de Garay Francisco de Garay Martin de Goiti Bruno de Heceta Martin de Hoyarçabal Francisco de Ibarra Miguel López de Legazpi Domingo...
    23 KB (2,295 words) - 14:18, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sopuerta
    Community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Conquistador Francisco de Garay was born in the Garay tower in Sopuerta. Sopuerta is administratively divided...
    5 KB (106 words) - 06:10, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fall of Tenochtitlan
    large source of succour for Cortés were the misguided expeditions by Francisco de Garay, the Governor of Jamaica, who kept sending ship after ship to aid...
    76 KB (10,331 words) - 07:05, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cathedral Basilica of St. Lawrence, Santa Cruz de la Sierra
    Basilica of St. Lawrence Viedma, Francisco de; Garay, Juan de; Garcia, Pedro Andres; Zavala, Bruno Mauricio; Doblas, Gonzalo de; Manrique, Juan del Pino; Schmidel...
    7 KB (281 words) - 07:35, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colony of Santiago
    colonial governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, they named it Our Lady of the Blessed Villa de la Vega (or, simply, Villa de la Vega). The oldest cathedral...
    17 KB (1,993 words) - 19:53, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ángel de Villafañe
    Darién. In 1523, Villafañe went to Pánuco in the company of Francisco de Garay. With Garay thwarted in his plans to establish a colony by Hernán Cortés...
    7 KB (937 words) - 22:24, 27 February 2024
  • European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520. While searching for a passage...
    41 KB (4,104 words) - 20:30, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Port Aransas, Texas
    region when Spaniards, led by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, probed the coast in 1519. Governor Francisco de Garay of Jamaica had commissioned him to explore...
    38 KB (4,278 words) - 22:06, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soto La Marina River
    found in southernmost Texas. The Spaniard Francisco de Garay discovered the Soto La Marina River in 1523. Garay, Governor of Jamaica, led an expedition...
    5 KB (510 words) - 00:18, 21 August 2022
  • European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520. While searching for a passage...
    135 KB (16,900 words) - 08:47, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antonio de Quintanilla
    November 14, 1787. He married Antonia Álvarez de Garay, the daughter of Captain Francisco alvarez and Bartola Garay. As a governor of Chiloé, Quintanilla ordered...
    4 KB (314 words) - 21:12, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Mexico City
    revived plan for solving the problem, settling on a plan proposed by Francisco de Garay for a series of open canals to channel water out of the capital and...
    134 KB (17,666 words) - 01:33, 15 August 2024
  • text in 1567. It was translated from the Portuguese by Eugène-François Garay de Montglave and can be found in Eugène Renduel, Bibliothèque portugaise Warnier...
    3 KB (197 words) - 16:53, 22 September 2024
  • founder of Buenos Aires Don Juan de Garay and Doña Isabel de Becerra, daughter of Francisco de Becerra and Isabel de Contreras y Mendoza, belonging to...
    4 KB (150 words) - 01:47, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horses in Jamaica
    as pigs and cotton. The various unsuccessful expeditions sent by Francisco de Garay to Central America during the 1520s always included lancers mounted...
    24 KB (2,706 words) - 22:08, 16 March 2024
  • of Tampico Bridge. National Engineering Award, 1994. Mexico. Mr. Francisco de Garay Recognition, 1995. Mexico. PROFESSIONAL From 1950 to 1955, Project...
    9 KB (1,256 words) - 23:26, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aldama Municipality, Tamaulipas
    related to the Maya. The first European to traverse the region was Francisco de Garay in 1523. Maize cultivation reached approximately to the Tropic of...
    8 KB (762 words) - 02:28, 17 June 2023