https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/tags/hernando-de-soto-lands-at-tampa-bay/ Recent content in Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay on Life In Good Measure Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:01:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1539/ Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:01:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1539/ In the year 1539, Spain annexes Cuba (Jan 14), the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay, Florida with the goal to find gold (May 30), the first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City, the Protestant Reformation i.e. the movement against papal authority goes on - and all these fine people were born: 1539-xxxx Humphrey Gilbert* adventurer/explorer/pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America - Greenway, Brixham, England (1583/c.