Colonial Spanish Exploration, 1542-1768 · Before Silicon Valley

Title: Colonial Spanish Exploration, 1542-1768
Description: With the arrival of Hernán Cortéz in Baja California, Spaniards explored the California Coast in the 1500s. In 1542, explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ventured up to Santa Barbara looking for the mythical Strait of Anian, a supposed waterway linking the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This imaginary shortcut would have allowed Spanish galleons easy access from the Port of Manilla in the Philippines to their trading partners in China.
Scholar Talk: https://vimeo.com/811383259/52599efcb0?share=copy; https://vimeo.com/811383103/4fa47c5aaa
Additional Online Information: Early Exploration of California (Part 1 of 2); 1768-1820s: Exploration and Colonial California — Calisphere; A History of American Indians in California: Pre-1769
Identifier: B4SV Exhibit Topic One: Slide 002

Media: with the European settlements & whatever else is remarkable in the West Indies, from the latest and best observations