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
- 1130 Saint Isidore the Farm Labourer dies in Madrid, aged 90.
- 1393 Treaty of Lisbon, between Castille and Portugal.
- 1524 Pedro de Alvarado founds the city of Quetzaltenango (Guatemala).
- 1544 Blasco Núñez de Vela, first Viceroy of Peru arrives at Lima.
- 1570 Ruy Díaz de Melgarejo founds the city of Villarrica (Paraguay), with the name of Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo.
- 1702 England declares war on Spain in connection with the War of the Spanish Succession.
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