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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

1499 - 1543

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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 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 (modern Mexico). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is the 171st most popular explorer (up from 182nd in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 170th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Portuguese Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 171 out of 498. Before him are Emin Pasha, Isabelle Eberhardt, Fernão do Pó, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, and Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. After him are Paulo da Gama, Gaspar de Lemos, Gustav Nachtigal, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Carsten Borchgrevink, and António de Abreu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 12. Before him are Giulio Romano, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Bernardino de Sahagún, Peter of Alcantara, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, and Claude Garamond. After him are Maria Salviati, Michiel Coxie, Garcia de Orta, Sebastian Franck, Jan Łaski, and Polidoro da Caravaggio. Among people deceased in 1543, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 10. Before him are Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Al-Mutawakkil III, Afonso I of Kongo, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Johann Eck, and Quli Qutb Shah. After him are Maria Salviati, Francesco Canova da Milano, Sebastian Franck, Francesco Granacci, Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Polidoro da Caravaggio.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 158 out of 633. Before him are Gil Vicente (1465), Infanta Antónia of Portugal (1845), Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1938), Ferdinand, Count of Flanders (1188), Álvaro Cunhal (1913), and Cristóvão Ferreira (1580). After him are José Sócrates (1957), John de Britto (1647), José Mendes Cabeçadas (1883), Isabel of Barcelos (1402), Humberto Delgado (1906), and Bruno Fernandes (1994).

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Among EXPLORERS In Portugal

Among explorers born in Portugal, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 17. Before him are Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565), João Gonçalves Zarco (1390), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), João Vaz Corte-Real (1420), Pedro Mascarenhas (1484), and Gil Eanes (null). After him are António de Abreu (1480), Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (1455), Gaspar Corte-Real (1450), Jorge Álvares (1401), Bartolomeu Perestrello (1400), and Duarte Pacheco Pereira (1460).

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