What the records say
- When
- 28 Jan 1671
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 9.01° N, 79.48° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Henry Morgan's Panama expedition.
Summary
Henry Morgan's Panama expedition – the city of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá, founded more than 150 years earlier at the Isthmus of Panama by Spanish settlers and the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Ocean, is destroyed by the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan. The last surviving original structures are now part of Panama City, capital of the Central American nation of Panama.
3 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Après la bataille de Mata Asnillos, le corsaire Henry Morgan met à sac la ville de Panama”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Поход на Панаму под командованием пиратского адмирала Генри Моргана”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page