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Pinzón (surname)
Pinzón is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include: * Pinzón brothers, Spanish navigators who accompanied Christopher Columbus. ** Martín Alonso Pinzón (c. 1441 – c. 1493), Captain of the ''Pinta'' on Columbus's first voyage ** (c. 1445 – c. 1502), Master of the ''Pinta'' on Columbus's first voyage ** Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (c. 1462 – c. 1514), Captain of the ''Niña'' on the first voyage of discovery * Chavelita Pinzón, Panamanian folklorist and singer * Daniel Chanis Pinzón, former president of Panama * Pedro Miguel González Pinzón Pedro Miguel González Pinzón (born January 1, 1965) is a leading political figure in Panama who was tried and acquitted by a Panamian court of the June 10, 1992, killing of a US Army serviceman, Sgt. Zak Hernández, and the serious wounding of ..., Panamanian politician who as of September 2007 is president of the National Assembly of Panama See also * Pinzon (other) Surnames from nicknames {{Finch-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinzón Brothers
The Pinzón brothers were Spanish sailors, pirates, explorers and fishermen, natives of Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Spain. Martín Alonso, Francisco Martín and Vicente Yáñez, participated in Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World (generally considered to constitute the discovery of the Americas by Europeans) and in other voyages of discovery and exploration in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.A document in the Archivo de Simancas in the ''Registro general del Sello'', dated March 1505, gives the terms of the inheritance of the estate of the Pinzón brothers' mother. This document is the source for the parents of the brothers being Martín Alonso Pinzón (father) and Mayor Vicente (mother), who left them some houses in the Barrero neighborhood of Palos, indicating that the family had been in Palos for at least one generation before the brothers.Cited in: * * Dentro del proceso de apelación de la sentencia de Dueñas -pleito iniciado por Diego Colón ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Alonso Pinzón
Martín Alonso Pinzón, (; Palos de la Frontera, Huelva; c. 1441 – c. 1493) was a Spanish mariner, shipbuilder, navigator and exploration, explorer, oldest of the Pinzón brothers. He sailed with Christopher Columbus on his Voyages of Christopher Columbus#First voyage, first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain (nautical)#Master, captain of the ''Pinta (ship), Pinta''. His youngest brother Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was captain of the ''Niña'', and the middle brother Francisco Martín Pinzón was ''maestre'' (first mate) of the ''Pinta''. The Pinzón family of Palos The Pinzón family was among the leading families of Palos de la Frontera in the late 15th century. There are several conflicting theories about the origin of the family and of their name (''see Pinzón brothers#The Pinzón family of Palos, Pinzón family''). His grandfather was a sailor and diver known as ''Martín''; it is not clear whether that was a first or last name, and whether in his generation ''Pinzó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón () (c. 1462 – after 1514) was a Spanish navigator and explorer, the youngest of the Pinzón brothers. Along with his older brother, Martín Alonso Pinzón (''c.'' 1441 – ''c.'' 1493), who captained the '' Pinta'', he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the ''Niña''. Personal life Pinzón was born in Palos de la Frontera on the Atlantic coast of Huelva, youngest of the three prominent sons of seaman Martín Pinzón and his wife Mayor Vicente. His birth year is uncertain; it is generally given as c. 1462; Juan Gil concludes from legal documents that his two daughters were over the age of 20 in 1509, that it certainly cannot be later than 1469. 1469 would be quite a late date, given that there is record of him being a corsair or privateer (with his older brother Martín Alonso) in Mediterranean waters between 1477 and 1479 when other towns failed to provide Palos with an adequate supply of grain i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavelita Pinzón
Cecilia María Pinzón Vergara (13 February 1931 – 18 March 2024), known as Chavelita Pinzón, was a Panamanian folklorist and singer, one of the most recognized figures in her country's folk scene. She was a teacher of folk dances at the Dance School of the , where she directed Panama's first folkloric ensemble. She took Panamanian dance troupes on domestic tours and to several cities abroad, including Washington D.C. and New York, New York. Early life Chavelita Pinzón's mother is a native of Guararé in the Los Santos District, and her father was born in La Chorrera District. She held a licentiate in philosophy and letters with a specialization in pedagogy from the University of Panama. Pinzón became a teacher at the Dance School of the (then named the Institute of Fine Arts, a dependency of the Ministry of Education), where she specialized in teaching typical Panamanian folk dancing and singing to children. From there she directed and organized the country's first typi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Chanis Pinzón
Daniel Chanis Pinzón (20 November 1892 in Panama City – 22 January 1961) was Panamanian politician and physician. As First Vice President of Domingo Díaz Arosemena he became President of Panama on July 28, 1949, and served until November 20, 1949, when he was forcibly ousted by police chief José ("Chichi") Remón. He was succeeded by Díaz Arosemena's Second Vice President, Roberto Chiari. He belonged to the Liberal Party. Early life Chanis earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1917, practicing medicine in both Panama and Scotland. Chanis published a paper in the American Urological Association's ''Journal of Urology'' in 1942 titled "Some Aspects of Hermaphroditism: Report of a Case of Female Pseudohermaphroditism" in 1942. He also served as General Council of Panama in Liverpool and London, and as Treasury Minister. First Vice-President National police forces, under the command of Remón, were called in ostensibly to maintain th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Miguel González Pinzón
Pedro Miguel González Pinzón (born January 1, 1965) is a leading political figure in Panama who was tried and acquitted by a Panamian court of the June 10, 1992, killing of a US Army serviceman, Sgt. Zak Hernández, and the serious wounding of another, Sgt. Ronald T. Marshall. In addition to serving as a deputy in the National Assembly, where he represented the province of Veraguas for the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), he served as President of the unicameral National Assembly from September 1, 2007, elected by a vote of 50-26 (defeating his rival Wigberto Quintero of the Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement), until August 31, 2008. Early life Pedro Miguel González Pinzón was born on January 1, 1965, to Gerardo González Vernaza (1929–2006), a Panamanian politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 1997 to 1999, as well as acting as the head of the PRD party. Alleged involvement in Hernandez murder On June 10, 1992, United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinzon (other)
Pinzon or Pinzón may refer to: * Pinzón, Buenos Aires, a settlement in Pergamino Partido, in Argentina *Pinzon (trademark), a private label for a product line of Amazon.com *Pinzón (surname), people with the surname ''Pinzón'' See also *The Pinzón Brothers *Pinzón Island Pinzón Island (Spanish: ''Isla Pinzón''), sometimes called Duncan Island (after Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan), is an island in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Pinzón is home to giant Galápagos tortoises of the endemic subspecies '' Chel ... * Finch, of which several species are named "Pinzón" in Spanish {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
