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Accounts differ as to Sebastian Cabot's place and date of birth. The historian James Williamson reviewed the evidence for various given dates in the 1480s and concluded that Sebastian was born not later than 1484, the son of John Cabot, a Venetian citizen credited with Genoese or Gaetan origins by birth, and of Mattea Caboto, also Venetian. [1]
The conquest expeditions of Juan del Junco commenced in 1526, when he embarked on a ship leaving Sanlúcar de Barrameda. He served under Sebastian Cabot in the exploration of the Río de la Plata. [7] In 1532 or 1533, taking Hernán Venegas Carrillo with him, [8] Del Junco sailed to Santo Domingo, Hispaniola. [4]
1516: Conquistador Juan Díaz de Solís leads an unsuccessful expedition to explore the area later known as Paraguay. 1524: Portuguese explorer Aleixo Garcia leads a Guaraní army of 200 across the Gran Chaco. 1526: Navigator Sebastian Cabot sails up the River Paraná and establishes a settlement known as Sancti Spiritu.
The Loaísa expedition was an early 16th-century Spanish voyage of discovery to the Pacific Ocean, commanded by García Jofre de Loaísa (1490 – 20 July 1526) and ordered by King Charles I of Spain to colonize the Spice Islands in the East Indies.
Cabot headed toward Río de la Plata, where he disembarked to repair two ships that had been damaged in a storm. There, the expedition met former cabin boy Francisco del Puerto, the sole survivor of Solís's landing party. Del Puerto, who was living with the Guaranís, also verified the legend and offered his services as guide and interpreter.
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In 1524, Juan Vespucci was appointed Examiner of Pilots, replacing Sebastian Cabot who was then commanding an expedition in Brazil. During the 1530s and 1540s, the principal mapmakers (known as "cosmographers") in the Casa de Contratación working on the Padrón General included Alonso de Santa Cruz, Sebastian Cabot, and Pedro de Medina.
1526–27 – Jorge de Menezes reaches New Guinea. [36] 1527–28 – Sebastian Cabot explores several hundred miles up the Paraná River, past its confluence with the Paraguay. [2] 1528 – Diogo Rodrigues explores the Mascarene Islands (which he names after Pedro Mascarenhas), naming the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues. [37]