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Cabrillo's heir Don Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano was the encomendero of Xicalpa, Jocopila and Comitlán, [32] and twice town magistrate of Santiago de Guatemala and owner of a cattle ranch along the road connecting Xicalapa to Miahuatlán. [33] In February 1579 he helped Francisco Díaz Del Castillo as a witness to his testimony. [34]
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo The first European to set foot on the island was the Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , who sailed in the name of the Spanish crown. [ 6 ] On October 7, 1542, he claimed the island for Spain and christened it San Salvador after his ship (Catalina has also been identified as one of the many possible burial ...
Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was the first European to discover San Diego Bay in 1542, roughly 200 years before other Europeans settled the area. Native Americans such as the Kumeyaay people had been living in the area for as long as 12,000 years prior to any European presence. [ 2 ]
Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California. The first European expedition to explore the upper California coast was led by the explorer and conquistador Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (c. 1499–1543). Cabrillo shipped for Havana as a young man and joined forces with Hernán Cortés in New Spain in about 1520 as a conquistador crossbow man.
Cabrillo National Monument recently commemorated the anniversary of the first European to set foot in California. Things didn't go as planned. Column: Cabrillo landed in California 480 years ago.
Birth and death categories; ... June 27 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sets sail to explore the northwest of the Pacific Ocean. [6] ... date unknown. Dosso Dossi ...
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explored the western coastline of Alta California in 1542–1543. Vázquez de Coronado's 1540–1542 expedition began as a search for the fabled Cities of Gold, but after learning from natives in New Mexico of a large river to the west, he sent García López de Cárdenas to lead a small contingent to find it.
San Diego replica of the San Salvador, Cabrillo's flagship. San Salvador was the flagship of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese). She was a 100-foot (30 m) full-rigged galleon with 10-foot (3.0 m) draft and capacity of 200 tons. [1] She carried officers, crew, and a priest.