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    Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese: João Rodrigues Cabrilho; c. 1497 – January 3, 1543) was a Portuguese 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Others include Morro Rock and Hollister Peak. It is named after Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Spanish maritime explorer, who was sailing off the coast in...
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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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    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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    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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    modern sequence, which lasts unbroken until 1922. September 28 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo lands in what is now San Diego Bay, and names it "San Miguel",...
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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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    Economic Partnership. 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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    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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  • writer, activist Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Spanish navigator Josep Maria Trigo Rodríguez, Spanish astronomer and astrophysicist Adrián Rodríguez, Spanish actor...
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  • has been described as "the birthplace of California". Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was the first European to discover San Diego Bay in 1542, roughly...
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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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    of his voyage, and the fact that later maps from the voyage of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo included detail of this part of the peninsula indicate that Ulloa...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    wheels. Some of the orange groves contain trees over 200 years old. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a famous explorer of North America, believed to have been born...
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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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