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Juan Bautista de Anza I (June 29, 1693 - May 9, 1740) was a Spanish Basque who explored a great part of what is today the Mexican state of Sonora and the southwest region of the United States.
Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 [1] – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire.
Born on June 29, 1693 in the Basque village of Hernani, Gipuzkoa, Spain, Juan Bautista de Anza (he spelled it Anssa, his son of the same name spelled it Anza) was the eldest son and second child of Antonio de Anza, the town pharmacist, and Lucia de Sassoeta.
Juan Bautista de Anza ( b. 1736; d. 19 December 1788), military officer, governor of New Mexico (1778–1788).
Spanish military commander and explorer Juan Bautista de Anza traveled the first overland route from the Sonoran Desert to the coast of California. In 1775–76 Anza led a group of more than 240 people from Mexico to the San Francisco peninsula.
Mar 28, 2020 · On March 28, 1776, Basque New-Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza was the first to reach the San Francisco Bay by land. De Anza was the first European to establish an overland route from Mexico, through the Sonoran Desert, to the Pacific coast of California.
May 14, 2018 · The Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza (1735-1788) opened the overland route from Mexico to California and established the first settlement at San Francisco. Juan Bautista de Anza was born in Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico, where his grandfather and father had served as commanders.
