A digital archive that rescues and disseminates the biographies of those who brought European culture to what is now the United States.
This initiative, under the name of La Florida, rescues documents from both sides of the Atlantic about the lives of those first European settlers. It is also intended to be used in schools as teaching material to disseminate the common past of the USA and Spain, the little-known history of the men and women who brought European culture to North America.
Visit the site: La Florida – The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas
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On this day
- 1010 The Counts of Barcelona and Urgel ally with Muhammad II against Sulayman, from whose reign the Kingdoms of Taifas will derive.
- 1774 In Mexico City, Spaniard Pedro Romero de Terreros founded the Nacional Monte de Piedad, under the name of "Sacro Real del Monte de Piedad de Ánimas", which provided a solution to the economic problems of the residents of New Spain.
- 1782 Carlos III creates the National Bank of San Carlos.
- 1881 Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine on sheep.
- 1899 The last men in the Philippines leave Baler after 337 days sieged in the town church.
- 1944 The Germans take Rome, prepared to defend themselves there by sending the Pope to Germany, but eventually rectify their position and leave the city.
- 1945 Allied bombing of Osaka, Japan's second largest city.
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