Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , Port. João Rodrigues Cabrilho, d. 1543, Spanish conquistador and discoverer of California, b. Portugal. In 1520 he landed in Mexico with Pánfilo de Narváez and joined in the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala. Accompanying Pedro de Alvarado up the west coast of Mexico, he assumed command of the expedition and continued the voyage after Alvarado's death. He discovered San Diego Bay on Sept. 28, 1542, landing at Point Loma Head, now in Cabrillo National Monument. He then sailed on to Northwest Cape beyond San Francisco Bay, which he did not find. Returning to winter on San Miguel Island off the Santa Barbara coast, he died Jan. 3, 1543.
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Hardcovers in Brief
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/9/1995; 700+ words
; ...king gave the items up and never walked alone in the Gardens again. The anecdote, which comes courtesy of Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, is among hundreds gathered by novelist A.N. Wilson for this literary and historical tour of the great...
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Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville , 1794-1865, English diarist. As clerk of the Council in Ordinary...Kronenberger, ed., The Great World: Portraits and Scenes from Greville's Memoirs (1962).
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Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794–1865), politician and man of public affairs, who was for many years clerk to the Privy Council. From 1820...
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Greville Memoirs, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Greville Memoirs, The, see Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke .
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