Explorer Juan Ponce de León claimed Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach Florida on April 2, 1513.

Discovery and conquest of the Caribbean Sea by the Spanish, 1492-1595.

« Westermann Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte », 1997

by cartesdhistoire

On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus reached San Salvador in what is now the Bahamas archipelago, then he discovered the northeast coast of Cuba and Haiti (La Española). During a second expedition, he discovered Dominica and Guadeloupe, then he explored the south coast of Cuba and discovered Jamaica (Santiago). His brother Bartolomé founded Santo Domingo in 1498. In 1508, Ponce de León named a harbor on the island Puerto Rico, which took its name, then he founded San Juan in 1511.

During his third voyage, in 1498, Columbus reached the island of Trinidad and discovered the mouths of the Orinoco River: the flow of the river indicated that the hinterland was much larger than the islands previously discovered. So, the idea of “mainland” began to emerge. In 1499, Alonso de Ojeda, accompanied by Amerigo Vespucci, explored the coast from east to west, starting from Guyana. On the shores of Lake Maracaibo, upon seeing Indians living in huts on stilts, he named this region “Venezuela”, meaning little Venice.

Rodrigo de Bastidas discovered the mouth of the Magdalena River and was the first to land on the Isthmus of Panama in 1500. During his fourth voyage, Columbus sailed along the coast of the isthmus from present-day Honduras (1502). Vasco Nuñez de Balboa founded Santa María la Antigua del Darién in 1510, the first permanent colony on the mainland, then he discovered the “South Sea” in 1513. Pedrarias Dávila founded Panama in 1519.

In 1528, Charles V granted the exploitation of Venezuela to Augsburg bankers, the Welsers. The expedition of Nicolás de Federmán reached the land of the Muiscas in the Andes in 1539.

The first European to ascend the Orinoco was Diego de Ordaz in 1531 (he was also the first European to reach the summit of the Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico). Where the Orinoco narrows the most, Antonio de Berrío founded the town of Santo Tomás de Guayana in 1595.

In the Andes, Benalcázar founded the Spanish Quito in 1534, then Popayán in 1537, and Jiménez de Quesada founded Santa Fe de Bogotá in 1538.

The Bastard Kings and their families

This is series of posts are complementary to this historical parallels post from the JON SNOW FORTNIGHT EVENT, and it's purpouse to discover the lives of medieval bastard kings, and the following posts are meant to collect portraits of those kings and their close relatives.

In many cases it's difficult to find contemporary art of their period, so some of the portrayals are subsequent.

1) Henry II of Castile ( 1334 – 1379), son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonor de Guzmán; and his son with Juana Manuel de Villena, John I of Castile (1358 – 1390)

2) His wife, Juana Manuel de Villena (1339 – 1381), daughter of Juan Manuel de Villena and his wife Blanca de la Cerda y Lara; with their daughter, Eleanor of Castile (1363 – 1415/1416)

3) His father, Alfonso XI of Castile (1311 – 1350), son of Ferdinand IV of Castile and his wife Constance of Portugal

4) His mother, Leonor de Guzmán y Ponce de León (1310–1351), daughter of Pedro Núñez de Guzmán and his wife Beatriz Ponce de León

5) His brother, Tello Alfonso of Castile (1337–1370), son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonor de Guzmán

6) His brother, Sancho Alfonso of Castile (1343–1375), son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonor de Guzmán

7) Daughters in law:

I. Eleonor of Aragon (20 February 1358 – 13 August 1382), daughter of Peter IV of Aragon and his wife Eleanor of Sicily; John I of Castile's first wife

II. Beatrice of Portugal (1373 – c. 1420) daughter of Ferdinand I of Portugal and his wife Leonor Teles de Meneses; John I of Castile's second wife

Son in law:

III. Charles III of Navarre (1361 –1425), son of Charles II of Navarre and Joan of Valois; Eleanor of Castile's huband

8) His brother, Peter I of Castile (1334 – 1369), son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Mary of Portugal

9) His niece, Isabella of Castile (1355 – 1392), daughter of Peter I of Castile and María de Padilla

10) His niece, Constance of Castile (1354 – 1394), daughter of Peter I of Castile and María de Padilla

Juan Ponce de Leon is perhaps best remembered for his legendary search for the famed Fountain of Youth, a magical source of water that was thought to reverse the aging process and cure diseases. This quest has certainly overshadowed his other accomplishments, though some have argued that the Spanish conquistador had never searched for the Fountain of Youth in the first place. He was, however, one of the first Europeans known to have set foot on what is today the United States of America, as his expeditions led him to Florida and Puerto Rico.

Word of the Day: Florida

There is so much not to like about the state of Florida. It appears to be trying very hard to be the reddest, anti-wokest, book-banning-est and most racist of all the red states.  Bugs Bunny had the right idea when he sawed Florida off from the rest of the United States.

I have a lot of friends who live there however, and oddly enough, they are almost all quite liberal folks. They bemoan what has become of their state. I wish I could do something to cheer them up.

I know…I can make “Florida” the Word of the Day! It’s kind of a cool story.

In 1513, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León crossed an ocean to find the legendary Fountain of Youth (and lots of gold and silver). He didn’t find it (the Fountain, or the gold and silver). Instead, he found a lush, verdant land, occupied by indigenous tribes and not a single Republican.

Many historians say old Ponce and his crew reached land on Easter Sunday, and in honor of the religious holiday, he named the new land “Pascua Florida” – literally, “flowery Easter,” or more colloquially, “Feast of Flowers.” (Full disclosure: some spoilsport historians say Ponce and his crew were actually a few days late for Easter and seeing all the beautiful blossoms he named the place “La Florida,” loosely translated as “the place of flowers.” Not nearly as good a story, but either way, the name “Florida” stuck.)

During one college break in the 1970’s, my friend Gerry and I traveled the length and breadth of Florida, from Jacksonville to Gainesville to Miami. We didn’t know a lot about Florida history as we drove through Tallahassee in Leon County, past the Leon Public Schools, the Leon Theater, Leon Credit Union, Leon Dry Cleaners, and so on. Eventually, we stopped a young local and asked him, “Hey, who was this Leon guy who everything is named after?” He looked at us as if we had just landed from Mars, and with a gimlet-eyed stare (I always wanted to use the phrase, “gimlet-eyed stare”), haughtily responded, “That’s Ponce de Leon,” which he pronounced as Ponse duh Lee-onn, “He invented this place!”

Invented it. Yeah. I guess the quality of the Florida education system hasn’t changed that much in the past several decades after all.

I love when books feature Latin American culture! (do you have any recs for other mg books 👀?) Charlie Hernández & the League of Shadows is full of Latin American myths and legends 💫 I wrote a full review on my blog (read it here!), here's an excerpt:

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½

Charlie Hernández & the League of Shadows combines adventure with myth as it whisks its hero from middle school to a legendary battle between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead.

...

The best aspect of the story is the use it makes of Spanish and Latin American folklore. I like Charlie’s love of his grandmother’s stories and the fact that his in-depth knowledge of legends ends up being essential to his survival in the strange, transformed world. It’s fascinating to see how the author weaves characters from folklore into Charlie Hernandez’ life to create a compelling story. I also like how Spanish expressions and phrases are used throughout the book! For readers who know Spanish, it’s fun to feel like you’re sharing something special with the characters. For those who don’t, have no fear because you will have no problem understanding everything – not to mention that you will be able to pick up a little Spanish and also discover some amazing Spanish and Latin American folklore.

One downside is that the narration, which is from Charlie’s point of view, can be rather awkward and unnatural. Charlie has thoughts that often don’t seem believable for someone in middle school. As a result, he often sounds more like an adult in what he thinks and says than like a boy. I find that it is very difficult in general for an adult to write convincingly in the first person as a child. Another downside is that the book portrays the historical figure of Juan Ponce de León very positively, overlooking his terrible treatment of Indigenous people. That cost the book a star in my review.

Read my full review here 💫

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Events 4.2

1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River. 1755 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India. 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint. 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna. 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality. 1863 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia. 1865 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia. 1885 – Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine. 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace, Saint Petersburg. 1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles. 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census. 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. 1917 – American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established. 1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. 1954 – A 19-month-old infant is swept up in the ocean tides at Hermosa Beach, California. Local photographer John L. Gaunt photographs the incident; 1955 Pulitzer winner "Tragedy by the Sea". 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format. 1964 – The Soviet Union launches Zond 1. 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s. 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service. 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. 1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest. 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock. 1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act. 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. 1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987. 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations. 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia. 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. 1992 – Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated. 2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted. 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed. 2012 – A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured. 2014 – A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured. 2015 – Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others. 2015 – Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million. 2021 – At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track. 2021 – A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.

Un día como hoy…

Un día como hoy... #aperturaintelectual #undiacomohoyai

27 DE MARZO DE 2023 Un día como hoy… LOS DATOS CULTURALES SON: En 1513, al norte del golfo de México, el conquistador y explorador español Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa descubrió la “Península de la Florida”; su nombre se debe a que la fecha fue un domingo de pascua de la resurrección y como es conocida también como pascua florida, de ahí deriva su nombre. En 1624, en Chuquisaca, Bolivia, se…

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ANTIMATERIA: GRAN ACELERADOR DE POEMAS

Tilsa Otta

Poesía Peruana. Año 2022

ISBN 978-987-4430-25-0

Obra en tapa: Juan Hernández

Según la física, el contacto entre materia y antimateria ocasiona su aniquilación mutua, lo cual no significa su destrucción sino su transmutación. La poesía de Tilsa Otta es gaseosa y transmatérica, capaz de atravesar paredes, planetas y sentimientos, despertando en las cosas su sentido poético, divertido o misterioso. En el desciframiento de sus versos está la clave para la invención de la máquina del tiempo.

Tilsa Otta Vildoso nació en Lima, Perú, en 1982. Es autora de libros de poemas, cuentos, cómic, poesía para niños, novela, y también es realizadora audiovisual. Antimateria: Gran acelerador de poemas tuvo una primera edición en formato plaqueta por Neutrinos en 2014. Sus otros libros de poesía son Mi niña veneno en el jardín de las baladas del recuerdo (Álbum del Universo Bakterial, Perú, 2004; Neutrinos, 2021), Indivisible (Álbum del Universo Bakterial, 2007) y La vida ya superó a la escritura (Juan Malasuerte, México, 2018). También publicó el libro de cuentos Un ejemplar extraño (Solar, Perú, 2018), el cómic VA, en coautoría con Rita Ponce de León (Contexto, Perú, 2017), el libro de poesía para niños Ideario: Ejercicios para imaginar y jugar (PRH, 2019), la novela Lxs niñxs de oro de la alquimia sexual (PRH, 2020) y la biografía Pepe Villalobos: El rey del festejo (Horizonte, Perú, 2021). Bajo el título The purity of air fue publicada una antología de sus cuentos (Perrito House, Inglaterra, 2020). www.tilsaotta.com

Plaza Juan Ponce de León / Plaza de los Perros

Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reached the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida on March 27, 1513.    

Cristo y Rey (2022)

@asongofstarkandtargaryen there's a new upcoming series with Belén Cuesta and Jaime Lorente, and they play the leading couple, Bárbara Rey and Ángel Cristo.

Synopsis

Madrid, 1979. Ángel Cristo is the most famous circus tamer of the county. Bárbara Rey, actress and muse of uncovering, the most desired woman in Spain. From the time they meet until they announce their marriage, only a few weeks pass. It is the wedding of the year and the news covers the covers of all the magazines. The Circus of Bárbara Rey and Ángel Cristo becomes the fashion show; a million dollar business money, fame, luxury…

Nine years of relationship in which Spain witnessed the happiness of the couple: the birth of Angelito and Sofía, the purchase of sports cars, jewelry, an ostentatious villa in La Moraleja… Far from the flashes, however, there is an escalation of drug addiction, gambling, infidelity and abuse...

And, in the background, the shadow of Barbara's relationship with Juan Carlos I (she was the king's lover between 1976 and 1994)

Cast

Belén Cuesta as Bárbara Rey (Totana, Murcia, 2th February 1950-), artistic name of María García García, daughter of Andrés García Valenzuela and Salvadora García Molina. She firstly started her career as a dancer, but then she became an actress, vedette & tv presenter on theatres, cinema and tv shows, and during her marriage with Ángel Cristo she became an elephant tamer.

Jaime Lorente as Ángel Cristo (Huelva, Andalucía, 17th October 1944- Alcorcón, Madrid, 4th May 2010), artistic name of Ángel Papadopoulos Dordid, son of Christoforo Papadopoulos Stanovich a Greek of Romani descent trapeze artist and the Spanish contortionist Margarita Dordid. They were a family of famous circus performers. Christoforo's brother, Miro who owned the Circus Florida, married also a woman from Málaga called Canela Remedios Vaquero and has 8 children together, some of them became very famous, like their eldest daughter, María del Pino Papadopoulos Vázquez known as "Miss Mara" who became an internationally famous trapeze artist and some of her brothers formed a group of phonanbulists called "Tonitos".

Ángel he received the Gold Medal of the International Circus Festival in 1982 and founded his own circus, the Russian Circus.

Adriana Torrebejano as Chelo García Cortés, a queer journalist and tv presenter who had a brief love affair with Bárbara Rey in the 80's. Chelo was in a relationship with the tv journalist José Manuel Parada Rodríguez during those years but it's said that she came out of the closet because of Bárbara and then she ended up broking up with her partner.

Artur Busquets as Francisco Javier García-Ontiveros "Payasito" (Little Clown), Ángel's best friend and a member of the Russian Circus.

Chema Adeva as Christoforo "Cristo" Papadopoulos Stanovich

Belén Ponce de León as Margarita Dordid "the little Carolina"

Vicente Vergará as Andrés García Valenzuela

Diana Peñalver as Salvadora García Molina

José Milan as Blasco

Cristóbal Suárez as Juan Carlos I

Salomé Jiménez as Queen Sofía

Secun de la Rosa as Richardi

David Lorente as Paco Ostos

Ana Carrasco as Hortensia

Mirela Balic as Cata

Antonio Buil as Mancuso

Elvira Cuadrupani as Patri Veracruz

Jesús Castro as bullfighter Francisco Rivera "Paquirri"

Julián Teurlais as Doctor 1

Data sheet

Creator/Showrunner: Daniel Écija

Executive production: Montse García and Daniel Écija

Script coordinator: Andrés Martín Soto and Patricia Trueba

Screenplay: Daniel Écija, Andrés Martín Soto, Patricia Trueba, César Mendizábal, Iñaki San Román, Ángel Gasco-Coloma

Direction: David Molina and Manu Gómez

Production Direction: Salvador Gómez

Casting direction: Ana Sainz-Trápaga and Patricia Álvarez de Miranda

Director of Photography: Tommie Ferreras

AEC, 2nd unit: Ismael Issa

Art Direction: Koldo Valles

Costume Design: Loles Garcia

Makeup and costume design: Romana González 'Pato' and Antonio Panizza

Music: Daniel Sánchez De La Hera

Sound: Néstor Luz

Editor: Fernando Márquez

Special Effects (VFX): Jordi San Agustín and Álvaro Vicario

If Juan Ponce de León knew how long this avocado sat in the fridge, he’d be quite excited.

Did you know that on April 2nd, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León landed in Florida, searching for the Fountain of Youth? 💧 While we may not have found the fountain yet, we can still embrace each day with youthful energy and optimism! 💪

On this day on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León glimpsed the shores of promise, while cherry blossom trees rooted goodwill between nations. Meanwhile, Alaska trembled with the epic force of the Good Friday earthquake.🌸🏔️📜✨

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Events 4.2 (before 1980)

1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River. 1755 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India. 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint. 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna. 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality. 1863 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia. 1865 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia. 1885 – Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine. 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace, Saint Petersburg. 1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles. 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census. 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. 1917 – American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. 1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established. 1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. 1954 – A 19-month-old infant is swept up in the ocean tides at Hermosa Beach, California. Local photographer John L. Gaunt photographs the incident; 1955 Pulitzer winner "Tragedy by the Sea". 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format. 1964 – The Soviet Union launches Zond 1. 1969 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 crashes into the Polica mountain near Zawoja, Poland, killing 53. 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s. 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service. 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. 1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest. 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.