USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most expansive European colonizations efforts were made by the Spanish. On September 28, 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and his crew entered San Diego Bay–the first Europeans to visit California.

Detailed explanation-2: -Junípero Serra was a Majorcan Franciscan who founded the first Alta California Spanish missions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Europeans’ contact with California began in the mid 1530s when Cortez’s men ventured to Baja California. Not until 1542 did Spaniards sail north to Alta California, and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo’s expedition that year made landings as far north as modern Santa Barbara.

Detailed explanation-4: -First European contact (1542) Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claiming California for the Spanish Empire in 1542.

Detailed explanation-5: -Junipero Serra was an 18th-century Spanish missionary who is as responsible as anyone else for establishing the Catholic presence in colonial California.