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The Falklands Legislative Assembly marks 434 years since the first recorded sighting
The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly marked Falklands Day on Friday, the anniversary of the first recorded sighting of the archipelago, on August 14, 1592. The day was marked by raising the Falkland Islands flag and the Union flag side by side on Victory Green, in Stanley. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLos ocupas, de nuestras islas son muy divertidos con sus fantasias de inventar historias para tratar de justificar la ocupacion ilegal.
Aug 15th, 2026 - 02:53 am - Link - Report abuse -4inglaterra no descubrio nada, los portugueses y españoles ya habian visto las islas y cartografiado casi cien años antes.
La mas fundamentada es la expedicion de magallanes de 1520
Argie Zit - Spain does not claim to have discovered the Falklands.
Aug 15th, 2026 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse +4Bit of a crippler, that.
In 1758, Governor Amat wrote to Madrid saying that no Spanish ship had ever visited the Falklands.
Another crippler.
Perhaps you should study more?
2 account Zit, none of it has anything to do with Argentina does it ? its strange how Argentine posters claim things for Spain that they themselves never claimed, grow up and get a life, the Falklands where, are and will stay British until the islanders say other wise, the only fantasy is the crap you come out with,
Aug 15th, 2026 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Falklands – Discovery and Early Expeditions: https://www.academia.edu/125397444/Falklands_Discovery_and_Early_Expeditions
Aug 15th, 2026 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Argy Cit
Aug 15th, 2026 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Magellan, who was Portugues and not Spanish, where Portugal has never claimed the Islands, sighted Islands which may or may not have been the Malvinas, they certainly never ‘mapped’ them, or ever went back to confirm the sightings.
However, the British did in in 1594 confirming the discovery of 1592.
All of which happened long, long before Argentina ever existed in any form.
Argentina is not Spain and you cannot ‘claim’ their history as your own, a corrupted version of Spanish history at that, one which the Spanish themselves do not claim.
The evidence does not support the Argentinian version of events.
When it comes to Magellan, people are inclined to forget Antonio Pigafetta. He recorded the whole voyage and, unlike Magellan, lived to tell the tale. He made no mention of any discovery of islands 290 miles east of the expedition's track down the coastline of South America.
Aug 16th, 2026 - 02:10 am - Link - Report abuse +2Commenting for this story is now closed.
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