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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.
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.
Jun 27, 2024 · Juan Bautista de Anza II (born July 1736, Sonora, Mexico—died December 19, 1788, Arizpe, Sonora) was a Spanish military commander and explorer who led settlers on an overland route from the Sonoran Desert to the coast of California.
Juan Bautista de Anza was a Spanish military commander and explorer. His travels led to the first overland route from the Sonoran Desert to California. In 1775–76 Anza led a group of more than 240 people from Mexico to the San Francisco peninsula.
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.
Juan Bautista de Anza was baptized at Cuquiárachi, Sonora, New Spain in 1736, in the far northern frontier of the Spanish empire. He was named after his father, Juan Bautista de Anza Sr ., a frontier military captain who had immigrated from the Spanish Basque country as a youth in 1712.
