Juan Ponce de Leon

he tried to find the fountain of youth and gold but never found them as you know gold was dicovered in 1848 but did find Puerto Rico and Florida

Juan Pone de Leon was famous for discovering the state of Florida.

Juan Ponce de Leon, a Spanish explorer and conquistador, was the first person to create a settlement in Puerto Rico and he also helped lead the exploration of Florida. He is associated with the myth of the Fountain of Youth.

Gerardo de León died on 1981-07-25.

Well you compare the two together and see what they have in common and what they don't have in common.

No he did not.

He never made it back he was wounded by a group of Native Americans.

Juan Ponce De Leon was actually the first because Christopher Columbus actually landed in the Bahamas and Juan landed in Puerto Rico and Dominican republic and Florida .

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Because when Ponce De Leon was the governer of Puerto Rico he had to talk to the people in his city and people in surronding cities. And one night he was talking to the Taínos, and the Taínos told him stories about this new world. So that is why he

wanted to go explore this new land.

La Florista in the name of Spain. Great tour you can take on it in St. Augustine, Florida which has the whole story on it. Also the first city in Northern America.

could be a explorer and a govemor !

Juan Ponce De León's descendants are in Puerto Rico.

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he had a son and two daughters

The king and queen of London funded Juan.

he wanted money

• 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

Christopher Columbus influenced Juan Ponce de Leon by letting Juan to go on his second expedition.

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Ponce de Leon could read and wright by the age of 13