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Felipe de Neve, 1728-84, Spanish governor of the Californias, 1775-82. In 1781 on the orders of King Carlos III of Spain, Felipe de Neve selected a site near the river Porciuncula and laid out the town of El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, one of 2 Spanish pueblos he founded in Alta California
Felipe De Neve (b. 1728; d. 21 August 1784), Spanish governor of California. Born in Bailén, Spain, Neve entered military service as a cadet in 1744, subsequently serving in Cantabria, Flanders, Milan, and Portugal.
Felipe de Neve and 44 settlers from Sonora and Mazatlán established a pueblo near a river they called Río de Porciúncula, where the Native American village of Yang-na (or Yabit) was located. They called the new settlement El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles…
Felipe de Neve y Padilla was a Spanish soldier who served as the 4th Governor of the Californias, from 1775 to 1782. Neve is one of the founders of Los Angeles and was instrumental in the foundation of San Jose and Santa Barbara.
Felipe de Neve y Padilla (Bailén, 1724 [1] -Coahuila de Zaragoza, 17 de junio de 1784) fue un gobernador español, siendo gobernador de las Provincias Internas de Occidente —que integran las actuales Sonora y Sinaloa—.
GOVERNOR DON FELIPE DE NEVE A chronological note of Felipe de Neve and his Governorship of the Californias. By LINDLEY BYNUM ELIPE DE NEVE arrived in Mexico in 1764 or 1765. In a letter written at Monterey June 1777, he said that he had not seen his family in Seville since the former date.1 There are notes of his hav-
May 1, 1995 · Felipe de Neve was born in Spain in 1724 and served in various military campaigns in Europe and America. He was the second commandant general of the Provincias Internas and the first governor of California, where he founded Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
