Vasco NĂșñez de Balboa: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Frederick A. Ober, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa (1906); Kathleen Romoli, Balboa of DariĂ©n: Discoverer of the Pacific (1953); Pietro Martire dâAnghiera, De orbe novo, trans. by Francis A. MacNutt, 2 vol. (1912, reprinted 1970); C.L.G. Anderson, Life and Letters of Vasco NĂșñez de Balboa (1941, reprinted 1970); Walter Lord (ed.), Balboa: Discoverer of the Pacific (1964).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Jan 08, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Vasco NĂșñez de Balboa. | Nov 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Vasco NĂșñez de Balboa. | Sep 19, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Explorers - Vasco Nunez de Balboa Biography - Spanish Explorer. | Jul 04, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Colonial America - Vasco de Balboa Facts. | Jul 04, 2022 | ||
| Updated bibliography. | Dec 10, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Elizabethan Era - Biography of Vasco Nunez de Balboa. | May 07, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: KidsPast.com - Biography of Vasco Nunez De Balboa. | Mar 03, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mr.Nussbaum - Biography of Vasco Nïżœïżœez de Balboa. | Mar 03, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 03, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Mariners' Museum and Park - The Ages of Exploration - Biography of Vasco Nunes de Balboa. | Nov 14, 2014 | ||
| Revised to reflect that Balboa was not the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean but the first European to sight its eastern shore. |
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Mar 19, 2014 | |
| Add new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Vasco Nunez de Balboa. | Jul 19, 2013 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 22, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Oct 22, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Vasco Nunez De Balboa. | Oct 22, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Biography of Vasco Nunez de Balboa. | Mar 14, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Mar 22, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 22, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 27, 1999 |
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