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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]
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.
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.
Harry Kelsey, in his exhaustive 1986 biography Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, writes that Cabrillo probably was born in Seville, Spain. [3] In 2015 a Canadian researcher, investigating a series of Spanish legal documents from a 1532 lawsuit, found that one of the witnesses in the lawsuit was named Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.
Cabrillo National Monument (Spanish: Monumento nacional Cabrillo) is a U.S. national monument at the southern tip of the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego, California. It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542.
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is believed to be the first European to explore the California coast. He was either of Portuguese or Spanish background, although his origins remain unclear. He was a soldier, crossbowman, and navigator who sailed for the Spanish Crown. Cabrillo led an expedition in two ships of his own design and construction from the ...
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499–1543), explorer, discovered California Andrés Dorantes de Carranza (ca. 1500–1550), explorer and one of the four last survivors of the Narváez expedition . Gabriel de Castilla (1577–1620), sailor; in 1603 he became probably the first man ever to sight Antarctica [ citation needed ]
In 2021, Rodriguez successfully led the campaign against the governor's recall, for which he was named Democratic campaign manager of the year by the American Assn. of Political Consultants. His ...