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2. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo - Wikipedia

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   The portion of California State Route 1 that runs from Las Cruces in Santa Barbara County north to San Francisco is called the Cabrillo Highway. [55] The Cabrillo Bridge [56] and Cabrillo Freeway (California State Route 163) [57] running through San Diego's Balboa Park are also named for him. There are streets named for him in many cities in ...

3. History of California - Wikipedia

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   The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...

4. History of Santa Catalina Island - Wikipedia

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   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 sites for Cabrillo). Over half a century later, another Spanish explorer, Sebastián Vizcaíno , rediscovered the island on the eve of Saint Catherine 's day (November 24) in 1602.

5. 1542 - Wikipedia

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   April 1 – As the 1542 session of the English Parliament ends, King Henry VIII gives royal assent to numerous laws, including the Witchcraft Act, the Treason Act, and the Leases by Corporations Act. April 4 – The Battle of Jarte begins in Ethiopia as the Army of the Portuguese Empire , commanded by Cristóvão da Gama encounters the army of ...

6. History of California before 1900 - Wikipedia

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   Present-day Baja California of Mexico was misrepresented in early maps as an island.This example c. 1650. Restored. The first European explorers, flying the flags of Spain and of England, sailed along the coast of California from the early 16th century to the mid-18th century, but no European settlements were established.

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