Wednesday, November 22, 2006
The First Thanksgiving was Held Where?
Many Americans mistakenly believe that the Pilgrims of 1620 were the first to settle, however, many preceded them. On April 30, 1598, Spanish nobleman Don Juan de Oņate and a group of settlers traveling northward from Zacatecas, Nueva Espaņa (now Mexico), reached the banks of El Rio Bravo (Rio Grande). The first recorded act of thanksgiving by colonizing Europeans occurred on that day in 1598 in Nuevo Mexico, about 25 miles south of what is now El Paso, Texas. Two thirds of the colonizers were from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal) and the Canary Islands.
The First Thanksgiving was Held Where?
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