Diego Colón (1479/1480 Porto Santo - February 23, 1526, Montalbán) was the son of Christopher Columbus and viceroy of the Indies. Events January 20 - Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula. ... Events Great standing on the Ugra river - Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ... No authentic contemporary portrait of Columbus has been found; this late 19th-century engraving is one of many conjectural images For information about the director, see the article on Chris Columbus. ...

Diego was made a page at the Spanish court in 1492, when his father embarked on his first voyage. He spent most of his adult life trying to regain the titles and privilages that his father had been granted for his explorations and then stripped of in 1500. He was greatly aided in this goal by his marriage to María Álvarez de Toledo, niece of the Duke of Alba, who was King Ferdinand's cousin. In 1508, he was named governor of the Indies, the post his father had previosuly held. He continued to fight for the remainder of his father's titles, and was made viceroy of the Indies in May, 1511. He continued to resent enroachments on his power and to fight for all of his father's privilages thereafter and made trips to Spain in 1515 and 1523 to plead his case without success. After his death, a compromise was reached in 1536 in which his son Luis was named admiral of the Indies and renounced all other rights for a perpetual annuity of 10,000 ducats, the island of Jamaica as a fief, an estate of 25 square leagues on the Isthmus of Panama, and the titles of Duke de Veragua and Marquis de Jamaica. Page can mean several things, including: Either side of a leaf in a book. ... The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. ... Events January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. ... Events Europes population was ~60 million. ... Ferdinand II of Aragon (Fernando de Aragón in Spanish and Ferran dAragó in Catalan), nicknamed the Catholic (March 10, 1452 – June 23, 1516) was king of Aragon, Castile, Sicily, Naples and Navarre and Count of Barcelona. ... Events February - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor attacks Venice June 6 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three year truce and cede several territories to Venice December 10 - League of Cambrai formed as an alliance against Venice between... Events Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba; Velázquez appointed Governor. ... Jamaica is a country in the Caribbean Sea, located south of Cuba and to the west of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. ... The term duke is a title of nobility which refers to the sovereign male ruler of a Continental European duchy, to a nobleman of the highest grade of the British peerage, or to the highest rank of nobility in various other European countries, including Spain and France (in Italy, principe... Marquis has many different meanings: Don Marquis was a writer, poet, and journalist. ...