New Orleans is named after Orleans in France..........but of the Europeans.........Spain was there 1st......

1686 - 1688	Melchor Portocarrero y Lasso de la Vega
1688 - 1696	Gaspar de la Cerda Sandoval Silva
1691	Due to the threat of French encroachment from the New French colony of Louisiana, New Spain establishes its first presence in Texas, although these early missions quickly fail. The mission at San Jose was one of Spain's attempts to colonise the region
1696	Juan Ortega y Montanes		Interim viceroy of New Spain, & later archbishop of Mexico.
1696 - 1701	Jose Sarmiento y Valladares
1701 - 1702	Juan Ortega y Montanes		Interim viceroy of New Spain, & archbishop of Mexico.
1702 - 1711	Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva Enriquez		First Spanish viceroy of