Juan Ponce de León explores and conquers Borinquen (Puerto Rico) General Historia de Puerto Rico 14/11/20170 Ponce de León, Valladolid, arrived in the New World in 1502 together with the new governor of the Indies Nicolás de Ovando. He was forty-one years old and had participated in the guerra de Granada. He was of noble ancestry and was a page in the Court of Fernando el
Nuño de Guzmán, conquistador of Nueva Galicia General History of United States 30/09/201730/09/20170 Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, born in Guadalajara (Spain) in 1490. He was appointed governor of Panuco in 1525, a territory taken from its discoverer and conqueror Francisco de Garay. He marched to his governorate and once there and because of the rivalry between the king and Hernán Cortés he was