Vasco+Nunez+de+Balboa

//__**Vasco Nunez de Balboa- Facts**__//

 * Balboa was a Spanish explorer, Governor, and Conquistador who was also the first European to reach the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean (September 1513).
 * Balboa was born in 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain and died in January 1519.
 * He served as a page and squire to Don Pedro De Portocarneo lord of Moguer.
 * The executioner beheaded Balboa and his four friends with an axe. Balboa's head did not come off clean on the first try; it took three tries.
 * Balboa fought in many important wars with the Native Americans on the way back from Coiba.
 * Balboa helped establish the town of Darien on the Inthemus of Panama of which he later became the interim governor of.
 * He also founded the settlement of Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien in Present Day Panama, although it no longer exists.
 * He came from an old and noble Galician family.
 * He was the first Spanish explorer to gain a permanent foothold on the American mainland.
 * Balboa was the leader of Spaniards.
 * Balboa and Don Rodrigo de Bastidas, a wealthy Spanish notary explored the 'New World' together.

__//**Timeline~**//__

 * 1475- Vasco Nunez de Balboa was born in Jerez de los Caballeros in Estremadura, Spain.
 * 1500- Vasco Nunez de Balboa sailed with Rodrigo de Bastidas from Spain to explore 'The New World'.
 * 1500- Balboa settled on the island of Hispaniola hoping to make a living as a farmer.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1510- Vasco Nunez de Balboa, and his dog Leoncico, sailed away on a boat going from Santo Domingo to San Sebastian in Columbia after his attempts at farming did not work out too well.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1511- Balboa founded the town of Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien which was the first European settlement in South America.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1511- The king of Spain appointed Balboa as the interim governor.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1513- Vasco Nunez de Balboa was appointed supreme commander of the colony.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1513- Vasco Nunez de Balboa sailed with hundreds of Spaniards and Indians across the Gulf of Uraba to the Darien Peninsula.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1513- Balboa and his party explored overland through dense rainforests in a west direction.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1513- Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from a peak in Darien, Panama. (He had climbed the peak alone.)
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1513- Balboa traveled to the ocean and claimed it and all the land that touched it for Spain.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1513- Vasco Nunez de Balboa spent a month with natives along the Pacific coast. He found a fortune in gold, pearls, and slaves and then returned to Antigua.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1513- Meanwhile, people in Spain who were jealous of Balboa for his accomplishments had turned the king against Balboa.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1514- A new governor named Pedrarias Davila had been appointed.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1517/1518- Vasco Nunez de Balboa continued his explorations leaving Pedrarias Davila to plot against him.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1519- Balboa, the title of Adelantado of the South Sea and Governor of Panama but was then arrested for plotting against his country, which he had not done.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">1519- Vasco Nunez de Balboa was publicly beheaded in Darien in January, 1519 for commiting treason, which he had not done.

<span style="color: #00edff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__//**The Land Balboa Discovered**//__
<span style="color: #00edff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Vasco Nunez De Balboa is considered one of the greatest Spanish explorers. Balboa was a maritime explorer for the Crown of Castile. In 1500, he embarked on his first journey to the Americas after being inspired by the news of Christopher Colombus's journeys to the 'New World'.

<span style="color: #00edff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Balboa set out on his journey with Rodrigo Bastias in a small ship. Balboa became the first European to see the Pacific ocean from its eastern shore. The voyage was going pretty well because Balboa and his partner were able to trade a lot of European goods for pearls and gold. Unfortunately, as the two men sailed west, their ship began to leak and they were robbed by the governor of the island on which they were resting on.

<span style="color: #00edff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Due to his debt, Balboa tried to make a living out of farming, but that didn't work out too well. He then sailed away in search of a new way to earn money.

<span style="color: #00edff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Balboa ventured into the neighboring region of Coiba, where he became friends a local chief, and married the chief's daughter. <span style="color: #00edff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After spending some time in Coiba with his wife, he left in search of conquering Native tribes. Balboa fought and defeated many Native American tribes, and gained control of resources such as pearls and gold.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fun Facts!!!!!
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When Balboa was returning to Spain, he suddenly ran into a huge school of whales with the ship helplessly swinging wildly.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Balboa died at the early age of 43.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Worms had eaten the ship timbers Balboa and his men had carried over the Isthmus.

<span style="color: #ff0051; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__//**In this way, Balboa be**//__ __<span style="color: #ff0051; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**came Governo**// ____<span style="color: #ff0051; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**r**// __ By: Puja Saman t, Brooke Milevoi, and James Chupalio