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ITINERARY OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITIONS, 1527-1547
1527
June 17 Narvaez sails from Spain to explore the mainland north of the Gulf of Mexico.
1528
April 15 Narvaez lands in Florida.
Sept. 22 The failure of the Narvaez expedition is assured.
1535
Cortes makes a settlement in Lower California.
Mendoza comes to Mexico as viceroy of New Spain.
1536
April Cabeza de Vaca and three other survivors of the Narvaez expedition arrive in New Spain.
The Licenciate de la Torre takes the residencia of Nuño de Guzman, who is imprisoned until June 30, 1538.
1537
Franciscan friars labor among the Indian tribes living north of New Spain.
Coronado subdues the revolted miners of Amatepeque.
The proposed expedition under Dorantes comes to naught.
April 20 De Soto receives a grant of the mainland of Florida.
1538
It is rumored that Coronado has been nominated governor of New Galicia.
1539
Pedro de Alvarado returns from Spain to the New World.
March 7 Friar Marcos de Niza, accompanied by the negro Estevan, starts from Culiacan to find the Seven Cities.
April 18 The appointment of Coronado as governor of New Galicia is confirmed.
May De Soto sails from Habana.
May 9 Friar Marcos enters the wilderness of Arizona.
May 21 Friar Marcos learns of the death of Estevan.
May 25 De Soto lands on the coast of Florida.
July 8 Ulloa sails from Acapulco nearly to the head of the Gulf of California in command of a fleet furnished by Cortes.
Friar Marcos returns from the north and certifies to the truth of his report before Mendoza and Coronado.
October The news of Niza's discoveries spreads through New Spain.

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