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1502

1502: Governor Nicolás de Ovando arrived in Hispaniola with 2,500 colonists, including the first European families to settle in the Americas.

1502: Governor Nicolás de Ovando arrived in Hispaniola with 2,500 colonists, including the first European families to settle in the Americas. He implemented a policy of eliminating independent chiefs to ensure the security of the expanding Spanish settlements.

Source  ·  p. 153 Rouse, The Tainos, 153