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Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay. On this day in 1542, the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America. Cabrillo was not the first to search for a water passage across the North American continent, and he would not be the...
In 1542-43, Portuguese-born JoÃ£o Rodrigues Cabrillo and his chief pilot BartolomÃ© Ferrelo, who may have been Portuguese, were the first Europeans to explore the coast of the present state of California. According to Richard Henry Dana, who wrote 'Two Years Before the Mast', California was discovered in 1534 by Ximenes, or in 1536 by Cortes .... Presumably he was referring to Gonzalo Ximenes De Qiesada (1509-1579), or Herman Cortes (1485-1547).