1542 Gallery

Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi

Spanish soldiers lower the wrapped body of Hernando De Soto into the Mississippi River. A soldier holds a torch as a priest reads from the Bible. His men did this in the dead of night, and weighted his corpse down with sand, as they were trying to conceal his death by fever from the Guachoya people, whom among other native peoples he had been trying to convince he was the son of the Sun, to varying success. Date: 1542

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Spanish Conquistadors in North America

A Spanish conquistador waves to the rest of the expedition party from across a large river, which they have been unable to bridge and so must cross through it. Several men are swimming across, as other men at the shore deal with equipment and horses.
circa 1542

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Akbar the Great (1542-1605). With jesuit missionaries

AKBAR, Muhammad (1542-1605). Mughal emperor of India (1565-1605). The monarch received the Jesuit missionaries. 1847 French original work. Spanish translation published in Barcelona. General history of the missions from the thirteenth century to the present day. 1863. Etching. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona University Library

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