USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1540, Coronado led a major Spanish expedition up Mexico’s western coast and into the region that is now the southwestern United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Brief: In 1540, with a commission by the Viceroy of New Spain and funded by many investors, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado marched north from Compostela, Mexico, with a huge army, to conquer the Seven Cities of Cibola, discovered the year before by the priest, Marcos de Niza.

Detailed explanation-3: -Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, (born c. 1510, Salamanca, Spain-died September 22, 1554, Mexico), Spanish explorer of the North American Southwest whose expeditions resulted in the discovery of many physical landmarks, including the Grand Canyon, but who failed to find the treasure-laden cities he sought.

Detailed explanation-4: -Coronado’s Journey Through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. In Brief: Finding no wealth in Cibola or the surroundings, Coronado moved his army east to the pueblos around Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande River, in September 1540.

Detailed explanation-5: -Assigned the task of locating the fabled Seven Cities of Cíbola in the New World for Spain, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, governor of the New Galicia province of New Spain (present Mexico), left Compostela in February 1540.