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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
119: *[[Thomas Gann]], explorer - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ...ain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who in [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Mexico]] and other parts of the s...
3: ...tion.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
16: In 1542 he went back to Mexico through roughly the same r... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
67: ...friendly. He wrote with such awe of the friendly innocence and beauty of these [[Native Americans|Indi... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
13: ...] and [[Taignoagny]], the sons of Huron [[Chief Donnacona]], back to Europe.
17: ...rrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault, a location where th...
21: ...f gazetteer which included several pages on the manner of the natives, in particular their habit of we...
25: ...hat a concoction made from a certain tree called annedda would cure scurvy. This remedy probably save...
27: ...ce in early May 1536, Cartier decided to kidnap Donnacona so that he may personally tell the tale of a... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps t...
12: ... West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French ...
17: ...land. Instead, through Mary's son, it was the beginning of their reign over a united Scotland and Engl...
26: ...air struck her, she began to cry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in ...
28: ...vingston held her body straight as the Earls of Lennox and Arran kissed her cheek in fealty, followed ... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
96: ...s expedition entered the area in [[1540]]–[[1542|42]] during its search for [[Cibola]]. Father Kin...
134: ...], created by the [[Colorado River]] cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 mile (446 ...
149: ...uary, the temperatures start to rise again with sunny warm days, and cool breezy nights. The summer mo...
349: ...ates|Supreme Court]] [[Justice]] [[Sandra Day O'Connor]], author [[Zane Grey]], former Governor and Se... - California (63989 bytes)
13: Senators = [[Dianne Feinstein]] (D)
91: ... is responsible for many legal and technological innovations.
100: ...ople|Portuguese]] [[Juãn Rodrigues Cabrillo]] in 1542.
101: ...ssession of it was [[Francis Drake]] in 1579. Beginning in the late 1700s, Spanish missionaries set up...
113: ...es by [[stagecoach]] and on foot. A more direct connection came in 1869 with the completion of the [[F... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
46: ...ale expedition to find these cities in [[1540]]-[[1542]]. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today...
62: ...Wagon caravans thereafter made the 40- to 60-day annual trek along the 780 mile (1,260 km) [[Santa Fe ...
66: ...ce in [[1841]]. The [[United States of America]] annexed [[Texas]] as a state in [[1845]]; the status ...
94: ...]] amid the [[Second World War]]. Top-secret personnel there developed the [[atomic bomb]], first deto...
109: ...oral votes to all but two Presidential election winners since statehood. In these exceptions, New Mexi... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France]], explores...
19: *[[1542]]-[[Hernando_de_Soto_(explorer)|Hernando de Soto]...
28: <td align="center"><B>Beginnings to 1599</B><BR>[[History of the United States... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...tate of [[California]] has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the significa...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Va...
13: ...rees, ground them, and leached out the acidic [[tannin]] to make the flour edible.
36: ...Cortes]] during the conquest of Mexico. In June [[1542]], Cabrillo led an expedition in two ships from t...
38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [[Alta California|Alta (upper) C... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
30: ...eed to give the book to his close friend [[Tiedemann Giese]], (the [[bishop]] of [[Chelmno Land]], to ...
51: This book marks the beginning of the shift from a [[geocentric universe|geoc...
55: ...leo Galilei|Galileo]], [[Tycho Brahe]], and [[Johannes Kepler]], who adopted, championed and (especial...
64: ...ing (its apparent moving during daytime, and its annual moving through the Zodiac) are nothing else th...
95: Copernicus' innovation was a scientific revolution. Some say "the... - San Francisco, California (55022 bytes)
44: ...tion of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] began in [[1542]] and culminated with the mapping of the bay in [...
62: ...y for profitable land speculation, city leaders banned all cemeteries within the city. Burials moved t...
64: ...ety across the Bay saved thousands. With the centennial of the disaster approaching, a city supervisor...
77: ...dition]] and [[Japantown]] neighborhoods. His planning led to the creation of [[Embarcadero Center]],...
93: ...ing backlash resulted in a progressive majority winning control of the Board of Supervisors in the [[2... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...alleros]], [[Extremadura]], and died [[21 May]] [[1542]], probably on a branch of the [[Mississippi rive...
7: ...e coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea between the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlanti...
13: ...ost respectable families of Castilia, with good connections to the Spanish court. This period was the ...
17: == Expedition to Florida 1538-1542 ==
23: ...brought several tons of equipment, tools, arms, cannons, dogs, and pigs. The dogs — mostly Irish... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
7: ...n Emperor|Charles V]]. It was later published in 1542, under the title ''La Relación'' (The Report). ... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: ...panish]] [[conquistador]], who between [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Mexico]] and other parts of the s...
14: In 1542 he went back to Mexico through roughly the same r...
28: ...ink/meta-pth-3161 ''The journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the city of Mexico to the Grand Canon of th... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
10: ...e mythical [[Strait of Anián]] that supposedly connected the [[Pacific Ocean]] to [[Hudson Bay]], pr...
12: ...s forced them to turn back. On [[November 23]], [[1542]], the little fleet limped back to "San Salvador"...
19: Although his discoveries went largely unnoticed at the time, none of his place names were p... - Apache (7848 bytes)
12: ...hey have very well-constructed tents, made with tanned and greased cowhides, in which they live and wh...
38: ...s). ''Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.'' Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ... - Inquisition (9274 bytes)
7: ...structure came into being to combat heresies. Beginning in the [[12th century]], Church Councils requi...
28: ...mned him for a "grave suspicion of heresy", and banned all his works.
34: ...disapproval, and is often used in a non-neutral manner, and not as a neutral historical descriptor. - Navajo Nation (14007 bytes)
22: ...hey have very well-constructed tents, made with tanned and greased cowhides, in which they live and wh...
44: ...hrough ''Nitsᨡkees'' (Thinking), ''Nahat᧧ (Planning), ''Iin᧧ (Living) and ''Sihasin'' (Assurance...
61: ...often follows have created impressions that drunkenness seems to describe Indian culture. Leaders and ...
76: ...s). ''Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.'' Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ...
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