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Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho (Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño in Spanish; c. 1560–1602), was a Portuguese explorer, born in Sesimbra (), appointed by King Philip II of Spain (Spanish: Felipe II de España; Portuguese: Filipe I de Portugal) to sail along the shores of California, in the years 1595 and 1596, in order to map the American west coast line and define the maritime routes of the ...
On the orders of Charles I of England, Rainsborowe led a successful naval expedition against the Barbary corsairs of Salé in North West Morocco in June 1637. The squadron comprised four of the warships of Charles I (the Leopard under Vice-Admiral William Rainsborowe, the Antelope under Vice-Admiral George Carteret, the Expedition under Capt. George White and the Providence under Capt. Edmund ...
English expedition to explore Newfoundland and eastern Canada. Corte-Real expedition Gaspar Corte-Real: 1501 Labrador (Canada) Portuguese expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Part of the expedition, captained by Gaspar's brother Miguel Corte-Real, were sent back to Portugal and are the only known survivors from this expedition.
The expedition was also to search for gold, precious stones, and any American, British, or Russian settlements along the northwest coast. Arriving in Alaska in 1791, Malaspina and Bustamante surveyed the coast to the Prince William Sound. At Yakutat Bay, the expedition made contact with the Tlingit. Spanish scholars made a study of the tribe ...
The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was based in the Pacific Northwest, an area contested over the decades among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Spanish Empire, the United States of America and the Russian Empire.
The Trinidad Head Lighthouse was built 1871 and remains in operation.; The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) began observations of key ozone-depleting substances and greenhouse gases at Trinidad Head in 1995.
The Anglo-Aro War (1901–1902) was a conflict between the Aro Confederacy in present-day Eastern Nigeria, and the British Empire.The war began after increasing tension between Aro leaders and the British after years of failed negotiations.
Expedition to the Mediterranean (1759–1760) [77] Location: Mediterranean Sea. Sweden: Pirates Successful expedition None Pomeranian War (13 September 1757 – 22 May 1762) [67] Location: Swedish Pomerania, Prussian Pomerania, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Sweden Russian Empire: Prussia: Prussian victory Status quo ante bellum A couple ...