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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón

1478 - 1526

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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (c. 1480 – 18 October 1526) was a Spanish magistrate and explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Gualdape colony, one of the first European attempts at a settlement in what is now the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón has received more than 161,174 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón is the 431st most popular explorer (down from 404th in 2019), the 1,668th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,503rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular Spanish Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón ranks 431 out of 498. Before him are Alfred Maudslay, George Nares, Sverre Hassel, Luke Foxe, Edward John Eyre, and George Back. After him are Robert McClure, Dirk Hartog, Henry Kellett, Tim Severin, Mikhail Somov, and Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón ranks 21. Before him are Gian Giorgio Trissino, Louis V, Elector Palatine, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Wolfgang Capito, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, and Konrad Pellikan.  Among people deceased in 1526, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón ranks 15. Before him are Rodrigo de Triana, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Elisabetta Gonzaga, Shō Shin, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, and Conrad Grebel. After him is Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón ranks 1,668 out of 3,355. Before him are Joaquín Vázquez (1897), Luis Tosar (1971), Pilar Miró (1940), Gregorio María Aguirre y García (1835), Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque (1827), and Abraham Olano (1970). After him are Vicente Guillot (1941), Tony Leblanc (1922), Jorge Martínez (1962), Fernando Serena (1941), Carme Riera (1948), and Asunción Balaguer (1925).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón ranks 55. Before him are Pascual de Andagoya (1495), Juan Fernández (1536), Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón (1500), Gaspar de Portolá (1716), García López de Cárdenas (1500), and Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (1494).

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