Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
✓ Source-basedstablePortuguese or Spanish explorer
Historical FiguresLived 1497 to 1543 · aged 46
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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was a Portuguese maritime explorer best known for investigations of the west coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire. He was the first European to explore present-day Alta California, navigating along the coast of California in 1542-1543 on his voyage from New Spain.
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Monument to Cabrillo in Montalegre, Portugal traditionally considered to be his hometown.
Spain's Royal Chronicler, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, wrote that Cabrilho was a Portuguese navigator, c. 1615.
Cabrillo depicted claiming California for the Spanish Empire in 1542, in a mural at Santa Barbara County Courthouse, painted by Dan Sayre Groesbeck in 1929.
Cabrillo National Monument at Point Loma in San Diego, California. It was donated to the state of California in 1939 by the Portuguese government.
Replica of Cabrillo's tombstone at the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
Plaque placed at Cabrillo National Monument in 1935 by João António de Bianchi, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States.
Medallion of Cabrillo by Allen Hutchinson, 1902.Historical Figures born in the 1490s 6
About this person
Category
Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
Status
deceased
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Lived 1497 to 1543 · aged 46
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