Renaissance · North America · Exploration
1513
Balboa Sights the Pacific
September 25, 1513
Hacking across the Isthmus of Panama with sixty-seven Spaniards and a force of Cueva allies, Vasco Nunez de Balboa climbed a ridge and saw, to the south, a great unknown ocean. He waded into the surf in full armor and claimed the Mar del Sur and all it touched for the crown of Castile.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.