What is a timeline of Juan Ponce de Leon?

Answer 1

• Juan Ponce de Leon was born in Santervas, Spain
• Juan Ponce de Leon came from a noble Spanish family and was well educated as befitted his status and would have been taught several languages, physics, geometry, mathematics and astronomy
• Ponce de Leon served as page to Pedro Nunuz de Guzman at the Spanish court
• 1490's Ponce travelled the seas as a Privateer, attacking ships belonging to the Moors
• 1493, 25 September The Second voyage of Christopher Columbus with 16 ships from Cadiz, carrying about 1500 men - including Juan Ponce de Leon
• Columbus explores Hispaniola (Jamaica) and encounters the hostile Carib and Arawak native indians
• Columbus establishes a Spanish settlement in Haiti and searches for gold and Juan Ponce de Leon has gained a wealth of experience from this voyage of discovery
• 1494 September 29 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain but Juan Ponce de Leon stays in Santo Domingo (now called the Dominican Republic)
• 1512 23 February Charles V grants Juan Ponce de Leon a patent authorizing him to discover and people the Island of Bimini (in the Bahamas) bestowing upon him the title of Adelantado and total jurisdiction
• 1508: Ponce de Leon founded the first settlement in Puerto Rico, Caparra (later relocated to San Juan)Ponce de Leon colonized Puerto Rico using just a few troops and one greyhound who scared the natives
• 3 March, 1513, Ponce sets out from San German (Rico ) with three ships, fitted out at his own expense
• 14 March, 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon reaches Guanahani, San Salvador ,where Christopher Columbus first sighted land
• 27 March 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon comes within sight of the coast ( Florida)
• 2 April 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon took possession of the land which Florida" ( Feast of Flowers) because they first spotted land on Palm Sunday
• 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon returned to Puerto Rico
• 27 September, 1514 Via his friend, Pedro Nunez de Guzman, he secured a second grant giving him power to settle the Island of Bimini and the Island of Florida, ( at this point in time Florida was thought to be just an island)
• 1521 he set out with two ships ready to colonise Florida. Whilst building houses Ponce de Leon and his party were attacked by a tribe of the Calusa (on Pine Island)
• Ponce de Leon was injured by a poisoned arrow
• Juan Ponce de Leon returned to Havana, Cuba, where he died of his wounds at 47 years old. His tomb is in the cathedral in Old San Juan