Friday, July 3, 2026

"El Norte" (7) de Carrie Gibson - Cronología de acontecimientos clave: 1579 - 1597

 En pocas palabras. Javier J. Jaspe

Washington D.C.

 Esta es la séptima entrega de una serie relacionada con el interesante libro: “El Norte – La epopeya olvidada de la Norteamérica Hispana”, escrito por la destacada historiadora, Carrie Gibson. Editorial EDAF, 2022, 575 páginas. La edición original es en el idioma inglés y la traducción al español que usamos es de Pablo García Hervás.

Carrie Gibson obtuvo su “doctorado en la Universidad de Cambridge….Ha trabajado como periodista en The Guardian y como colaboradora en otras publicaciones, además de la BBC. Su investigación la ha llevado a México, el Caribe y los Estados Unidos. Reside en Londres”.

Sobre el libro se ha escrito:

"Durante mucho tiempo, los Estados Unidos se han preciado de su herencia anglosajona por encima de todas las demás. No obstante, tal como Carrie Gibson replica en El Norte, con gran profundidad y nitidez, la nación tiene unas raíces hispanas mucho más antiguas, las cuales han permanecido mucho tiempo ignoradas y marginadas. Este pasado hispánico precede en un siglo a la llegada del Mayflower, y es de todo punto igual de importante a la hora de dar forma a la nación tal como existe hoy en día.... (The New York Times Book Review)"

El propósito de la serie no es realizar un análisis del libro, sino publicar la cronología de los acontecimientos clave que allí se incluyen (páginas 462 – 470), ocurridos entre los años 1492 y 2017, a fin de acompañarlos con unos breves agregados que recogen principalmente textos encontrados en Internet, relacionados con los enunciados que se utilizan a lo largo de dicha cronología.

A efecto de diferenciar la cronología original transcrita en negrillas, los agregados se transcriben en itálicas, bien textualmente o resumidos y/o reordenados en su presentación, con las referencias a sus respectivos enlaces en Internet. Cuando la cronología original incluye diversos hechos en un mismo año, estos hechos son presentados separadamente bajo dicho año.

En esta séptima entrega se incluyen hechos históricos que van desde que Francis Drake llega al norte de California (1579) hasta la revuelta de Juanillo contra las misiones españolas (1597). Veamos:      

 1579: Francis Drake llega al norte de California y la bautiza como Nueva Albión (Nueva Inglaterra).

National Park Service

Point Reyes National Seashore California

Francis Drake's "Harbourgh"

 Perhaps no event in California's history has been as thoroughly debated as the landfall of Francis Drake's Golden Hind in 1579. His visit to a "convenient and fit harbourgh" has been narrowed by conjecture and evidence to at least three locations near Point Reyes. The evidence, the chaplain's diary, and shards of delicate porcelain—part of Drake's treasure—leads most scholars to the estuary and bay along the southern coast of Point Reyes peninsula which bear his name today.

Drake's Early Years

Drake's landing in California was part of a much larger trip—"The Voyage of Circumnavigation"—in which he sought the Strait of Anián, the fabled Northwest Passage linking Europe to the rich lands of the East Indies via a route to the north of the Americas. It was a time of empire building for England, which trailed the earlier explorations and colonial expansion of its chief rival, Spain. His early years among the ships of the Thames Estuary were marked by the intensely emotional turmoil of the Protestant Reformation, which governed not only Europe's spiritual life, but also its political life.

Drake's quest for new lands and riches took him on many voyages across the Atlantic. During his first three trans-Atlantic voyages, he sailed with John Hawkins, his second cousin and the man who is considered to have been the first English slave-trader. In 1568, during the third expedition, Hawkins' fleet was attacked by Spanish warships for engaging in illegal trade in the Caribbean Sea, including trading enslaved people. Hawkins lost four of six ships, and he and Drake narrowly escaped death. This event was a catalyst for Drake's hatred of Spain and preceded the many battles he waged against the Spanish.

It was during his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, in 1572, that Drake is said to have climbed a tree on the Isthmus of Panama and first glimpsed the Pacific. Captivated by this view, he swore to sail an English ship to those waters…..

https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/historyculture/people_europeanexplorers_francisdrake.htm

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June 17, 1579: Francis Drake claims Nova Albion (California) for England

By Hans

https://www.englandcast.com/2022/06/francis-drake-claimed-nova-albion/

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The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (Voyage of 1577-1580) compiled by Drake’s nephew, Francis Drake, from the journal of the ship’s chaplain, Frances Fletcher, and others; published 1628 excerpts: Nova Albion (California), 1579

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/contact/text5/drake.pdf

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Noehill Travels in California

Nova Albion
Drakes Beach
Point Reyes
Year 1579

https://noehill.com/marin/poi_nova_albion.asp

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Nueva Albión: primer nombre de la California estadounidense

El Vigia/ Carlos Lazcano/Colaboración

https://www.elvigia.net/general/2018/6/24/nueva-albin-primer-nombre-california-estadounidense-306950.html

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EBSCO

Francis Drake Lands in Northern California

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/francis-drake-lands-northern-california

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The Mystery of Francis Drake's Californian Voyage

David Cressay

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/mystery-francis-drakes-californian-voyage

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Francis Drake sails to California in 1579 Elizabethan sea captain, adventurer, explorer & privateer

Timeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCKbhdmFBbY

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1586: Francis Drake ataca San Agustín.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Sir Francis Drake’s attack on St. Augustine, 1586

A Spotlight on a Primary Source by Baptista Boazio

 

Image….

 

Five years after leading the first English circumnavigation of the globe in 1577–1580, Sir Francis Drake led a raid against Spanish settlements in the Caribbean including Santiago, Santo Domingo, and Cartagena, as well as St. Augustine (in present-day Florida). This engraving, by Baptista Boazio, was made to accompany a book describing Drake’s 1586 expedition, A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage (published in 1588–1589). The illustration depicts the attack of Drake’s fleet of twenty-three ships on St. Augustine, which was captured and destroyed on May 28–30, 1586. Although Boazio was not on the voyage, he worked from firsthand accounts. The engraving is the earliest known surviving view of a New World city north of Mexico.

Drake operated as a privateer under a "letter of marque and reprisal" issued by Queen Elizabeth I. His operations were part of the long-standing and escalating tensions between Protestant England and Catholic Spain. The Boazio illustrations and A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage were published following the English victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588.

 

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/sir-francis-drakes-attack-st-augustine-1586

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Historic Florida Militia, Inc

Drake’s Raid for Visitors

https://hfm.club/about/drakes-raid-for-visitors/

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The British arrive at St. Augustine

WUWF | Dr, Judy Bense

https://www.wuwf.org/unearthing-florida/2024-04-04/the-british-arrive-at-st-augustine

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Florida Historical Quarterly

Drake Destroys St. Augustine: 1586

James W. Covington

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, scourge of the Spanish Main, came to Florida and destroyed St. Augustine in 1586. Judging from other battles that took place during Drake’s swing through Spain’s Caribbean empire, the Florida episode was a relatively minor affair. St. Augustine at the time was a small out-of-the-way village of about 300 persons with its only defense the small outpost, San Juan de los Pinillos. In contrast to the splendid buildings, numerous soldiers, and excellent defenses of Santo Domingo and Cartagena, St. Augustine was not very important. But in defensive tactics and in its use of manpower, the Florida town showed to good advantage; in some ways it utilized its limited defensive power more effectively than the two larger and more strongly fortified places…..

https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2974&context=fhq

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1587: se abandona Santa Elena y se traslada a sus habitantes a San Agustín.

University of South Carolina

Scholar Commons

Santa Elena: A Brief History of the Colony, 1566-

Eugene Lyon

…..On August 16, 1587, Governor Menendez Marquez appeared at Santa Elena with an order by Maestre de Campa Tejeda to tear down Fort San Marcos and evacuate the town. Tejeda had been strongly influenced by the governor and others, and Pedro Menendez Marquez was obeying orders which reflected his own views. The entire garrison was to be concentrated in a stronger fort at St. Augustine. This severe blow aroused those who possessed homes, lands and other vested interests in Santa Elena. Gutierre de Miranda strongly protested, testifying of the rebuilt strength of the fort. He stated his belief that the King and Tejeda had not been informed of the true strategic value of Santa Elena's fine port as compared to St. Augustine's shallow bar. He feared that the enemy would seize control of Santa Elena and profit by its cleared lands, wood suitable for shipbuilding, fruit trees and livestock. He pointed out that the Adelantado Pedro Menendez, who had understood its importance, had made his capital there, and reiterated the old belief that the most abundant cultivation could only come in temperate latitudes. Miranda closed with an appeal that nothing further be done until the King and council could hear the matter. Pedro Menendez Marquez replied that the King was amply informed of the qualities of the land, and that no Indians had, up to now, been truly Christianized. He denied that Santa Elena was fit for settlement, and labelled st. Augustine superior to it. He stated that Tejeda had full powers to make his determination, and he ordered Miranda not to stand 65 in the way, under a penalty of 500 ducats and being declared an open rebel.

Gutierre de Miranda had to yield. The fort was torn down, and the city burned yet again. Miranda carried his protest to Spain, where he presented a claim for destroyed houses, gardens, hog ranches, livestock and 15 other farm and cultivated property…..(pages 15 and 16)

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1184&context=archanth_books

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Descubiertas las ruinas de la que fue capital española en Florida

El País Jul 12, 1979

https://elpais.com/diario/1979/07/13/ultima/300664801_850215.html

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HerenciaHispanaOculta

Cuando Florida llegaba hasta Carolina del Sur, Santa Helena era un pueblo importante Por Miguel Pérez

https://www.hiddenhispanicheritage.com/5-cuando-florida-llegaba-hasta-carolina-del-sur-santa-helena-era-un-pueblo-importante.html

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ANTES DE JAMESTOWN FUE SAN AGUSTÍN DE LA FLORIDA

ACADEMIA NORTEAMERICANA DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA (ANLE)

Presentación: Graciela S. Tomassini

Prefacio/autor: Steven Strange

https://www.anle.us/site/assets/files/1536/antes_de_jamestown_fue_san_agustin_de_la_florida.pdf

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1597: se produce un alzamiento contra las misiones españolas encabezado por los indios guales, conocido también como la revuelta de Juanillo.

Murder and martyrdom in Spanish Florida : Don Juan and the Guale uprising of 1597 / J. Michael Francis, Kathleen M. Kole ; with a contribution by David Hurst Thomas

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Summary

In the late fall of 1597, Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars stationed in their territory and razed their missions to the ground. The 1597 Guale Uprising, or Juanillo's Revolt as it is often called, brought the missionization of Guale to an abrupt end and threatened Florida's new governor with the most significant crisis of his term. To date, interpretations of the uprising emphasize the primacy of a young Indian from Tolomato named Juanillo, the heir to Guale's paramount chieftaincy. According to most versions of the uprising story, Tolomato's resident friar publicly reprimanded Juanillo for practicing polygamy. In his anger, Juanillo gathered his forces and launched a series of violent assaults on all five of Guale territory's Franciscan missions, leaving all but one of the province's friars dead. Through a series of newly translated primary sources, many of which have never appeared in print, this volume presents the most comprehensive examination of the 1597 uprising and its aftermath. It seeks to move beyond the two central questions that have dominated the historiography of the uprising, namely who killed the five friars and why, neither of which can be answered with any certainty. Instead, this work aims to use the episode as the background for a detailed examination of Spanish Florida at the turn of the 17th century. Viewed collectively, these sources not only challenge current representations of the uprising, they also shed light on the complex nature of Spanish-Indian relations in early colonial Florida….

https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_977516

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España en la Historia

Franciscanos españoles mártires en Georgia.

Jesús Caraballo

…..Los frailes franciscanos fueron bien recibidos en las comunidades de nativos. Predicaban el evangelio y vivían entre la población indígena sin necesidad de armamento o presencia militar. De hecho, la mayoría del pueblo guale no solo aceptó la fe católica, sino que también recibió los productos y cultura europeos como adornos, herramientas de metal o textiles.

Fray Pedro de Corpa fue uno de los grandes impulsores de la evangelización del pueblo guale. Tras casi una década de experiencia misionera en La Florida, le asignaron la misión de Tolomato, un lugar de especial relevancia por ser la capital de aquellos indígenas.

Durante la estancia de Fray Pedro en Tolomato, gran parte de sus habitantes le pedían ser bautizados, a lo que contribuyó el aprendizaje de su lengua y largas horas de conversación y evangelización de Fray Pedro con los nativos.

Sin embargo, esta idílica convivencia cambió por completo a mediados de septiembre de 1597. El cacique de los guales, don Francisco, había fallecido recientemente en Tolomato. Allí también residía Juanillo, que pronto heredaría el cargo de cacique del pueblo guale. El joven heredero se bautizó y se convirtió al cristianismo poco después de la llegada de Fray Pedro a la misión, cuando introdujo a los nuevos conversos a la práctica de los sacramentos.

Fue entonces cuando Juanillo se casó con una segunda mujer. Pese a la buena relación que los unía, Fray Pedro le recordó que como cristiano y bautizado no podía contraer un segundo matrimonio. Ante la indiferencia del heredero, Fray Pedro desaconsejó la próxima sucesión del joven junto con Fray Blas, otro de los franciscanos residentes en la cercana misión de Tupiqui. Por ello, el Bohío de Tolomato –institución encargada de decidir si Juanillo sería el nuevo Mico o cacique– no le concedió el nombramiento.

La respuesta de Juanillo no se hizo esperar, y comenzó una revuelta junto con otros guales no bautizados que vivían alejados de las misiones. Tras el asesinato de Fray Pedro, comenzaron cuatro días de persecución, torturas y martirio de los cinco sacerdotes franciscanos que se encontraban con los guale en Georgia…..

https://espanaenlahistoria.org/episodios/franciscanos-espanoles-martires-en-georgia/

 

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Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: The True Story Behind the Guale Uprising

PBS

Special: Secrets of Spanish Florida/Clip

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/secrets-spanish-florida-murder-martyrdom-spanish-florida-true-story-behind-guale-uprising/3702/

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The Gualean Revolt of 1597: Anti-Colonialism in the Old South

By Carolyn Stefan Schukk/November 1, 1984

https://www.facingsouth.org/1984/11/gualean-revolt-1597-anti-colonialism-old-south

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Great Warrior’s Path

Spanish Florida: Juanillo’s Revolt of 1597

https://greatwarriorspath.blogspot.com/2016/10/spanish-florida-juanillos-revolt-of-1597.html

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Murder & Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan & the Guale Uprising of 1597

Library of Congress

In the late fall of 1597, Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars stationed in their territory and razed their missions to the ground. The 1597 Guale Uprising, or Juanillo's Revolt as it is often labeled, brought the missionization of Guale to an abrupt end and threatened Florida???s new governor with the most significant crisis of his term. This lecture explores the 1597 uprising and its aftermath, and aims to shed light on the complex nature of Spanish-Indian relations in early colonial Florida.

Speaker Biography: J. Michael Francis is professor and chair of the history department at the University of North Florida.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt5eflH6eM&t=24s

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"El Norte" (7) de Carrie Gibson - Cronología de acontecimientos clave: 1579 - 1597

  En pocas palabras. Javier J. Jaspe Washington D.C.  Esta es la séptima entrega de una serie relacionada con el interesante libro:  “El...