USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Santa Fe, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established in 1610. Few Spaniards relocated to the southwest due to the distance from Mexico City and the dry and hostile environment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Spanish established at St.

Detailed explanation-3: -Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in United States and the oldest European community west of the Mississippi. While Santa Fe was inhabited on a very small scale in 1607, it was truly settled by the conquistador Don Pedro de Peralta in 1609-1610.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a space of two years, however, in 1607 and 1608, the Spanish, English, and French founded settlements north of the 30th latitude that survived despite the odds against them-Santa Fé in New Mexico (1607), Jamestown on the Atlantic coast (1607), and Quebec on the St. Lawrence River (1608).

Detailed explanation-5: -1494: Columbus arrives in Jamaica. 1496: Santo Domingo, the first European permanent settlement, is built. 1497: John Cabot reaches Newfoundland. 1498: In his third voyage, Columbus reaches Trinidad and Tobago.