Death Of Diego Arana
by Collection Abecasis/science Photo Library
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Death Of Diego Arana
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Collection Abecasis/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Death of Diego Arana (1468-1493). 1869 illustration depicting the Spanish sailor and governor Diego Arana, being killed by the native Taino people in La Navidad, on the island of Hispaniola, in present day Haiti. La Navidad was the first European colony established in the New World during the Age of Discovery. It was established in 1492 from the wreck of the Spanish ship, the Santa Maria, during Christopher Colombus' first voyage of discovery. Arana was installed as the colony's governor but was killed a year later in 1493. Some contemporary reports say he was killed by the Taino people as they were being mistreated by the Spanish settlers. Other reports suggest it was as a result of insubordination within the colonists.
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