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    Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese: João Rodrigues Cabrilho; c. 1497 – January 3, 1543) was an Iberian maritime explorer best known for investigations...
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    Cabrillo College is a public community college in Aptos, California. It is named after the conquistador Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and opened in 1959. Cabrillo...
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    Diego, California, United States. It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542. This event marked the first...
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    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...
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  • Cabrillo may refer to: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the first European to explore California. Cabrillo Beach, a section of San Pedro, California near Point...
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    Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement...
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    inhabited by the indigenous Tongva people and later claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The city was founded on September 4, 1781, under...
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  • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo and first printed around 1510, in which a character travels through an island called "California". Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is...
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    Cabrillo Beach is a historic public beach located in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. It is named after Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Spanish explorer...
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  • Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School is a high school in Long Beach, California. The school is a part of the Long Beach Unified School District. In the...
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    by Europeans on September 28, 1542, when Portuguese navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese) departed from Mexico and...
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    vigilant." Under the seal is the number 1542, the year in which Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo first entered San Diego Bay and claimed the area for the Spanish...
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  • feminist, writer, activist Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Spanish navigator Adrián Rodríguez, Spanish actor and singer Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, Venezuelan film director...
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  • Juan Rodríguez may refer to: Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara del Padrón (1390–1450), Spanish poet Juan Rodríguez Freyle (1566-1642), early Colombian writer...
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    Francisco Vázquez de Coronado reached Quivira in central Kansas. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explored the western coastline of Alta California in 1542–1543...
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    Spanish maritime expedition led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542. Cabrillo was commissioned by Antonio de Mendoza, the Viceroy of...
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    significance. First contact with Europeans occurred in 1542 with Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the Spanish explorer who noted the extensive presence of the plank...
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    I-15 in the neighborhood of Miramar. The freeway is named after Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the first European to navigate the coast of present-day California...
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    first European to explore the coast was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, sailing for the Spanish Crown; in 1542, Cabrillo's expedition sailed perhaps as far north...
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    Castaño de Sosa George Ura Ginés de Mafra Jean Alfonse Juan Díaz de Solís Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva Luís Vaz de Torres Manuel...
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    Francisco Vásquez de Coronado reached Quivira in central Kansas. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explored the western coastline of Alta California in 1542–43. Francisco...
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    Monterey counties. The first European to enter Monterey Bay was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo on November 16, 1542, while sailing northward along the coast on...
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  • 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2012-02-06. Kramer, Wendy (Summer–Fall 2016). "Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Citizen of Guatemala and native of Palma del Río: New sources...
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    Clemente and San Nicolas. The first European to sight the island was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542, who named it Victoria. It was renamed by Spanish explorer...
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  • Manila galleon (redirect from Juan Gaetano)
    In 1543, Bernardo de la Torre also failed. In 1542, however, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo helped pave the way by sailing north from Mexico to explore the...
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    Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497) January 3 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499) January 9 – Guillaume du Bellay...
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  • were the members of a Spanish sailing expedition led by captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo from the Viceroyalty of New Spain (modern Mexico); they entered...
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    persistent summer fog. The strait is not recorded in the voyages of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo nor Francis Drake, both of whom may have explored the nearby coast...
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    coast of North America had only been partially explored in 1542 by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo who sailed for Spain. So, intending to avoid further conflict with...
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    expanded into this area when the Viceroy of New Spain commissioned Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to explore the Pacific Ocean in 1542–1543. In 1767, the area became...
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