{"id":23217,"date":"2016-09-27T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23217"},"modified":"2016-09-27T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:45:36","slug":"commemorating-cabrillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/commemorating-cabrillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating Cabrillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cabrillo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cabrillo National Monument (part of the National Park Service) in San Diego pays tribute to explorer Juan Cabrillo, who sailed into the San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542. Cabrillo Day is September 28, but the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-cabrillo-festival.html\">Cabrillo Festival<\/a> celebration takes place this weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The world explorer is credited as the first European to discover the California coast for the Spanish Empire.<\/li>\n<li>Among the names he\u00a0assigned: San Diego Bay was\u00a0San Miguel\u00a0|\u00a0Santa Catalina Island\u00a0was named\u00a0San Salvador after his flagship\u00a0|\u00a0San Clemente Island was named Victoria\u00a0|\u00a0San Pedro Bay was named\u00a0Baya de los Fumos\u00a0or\u00a0Smoke Bay\u00a0|\u00a0Point Conception\u00a0was\u00a0Cabo de Galera\u00a0|\u00a0Monterey Bay was\u00a0Bahia de los Pinos.<\/li>\n<li>Cabrillo&#8217;s fleet completely missed San Francisco Bay\u00a0which would remain undiscovered for\u00a0two more centuries.<\/li>\n<li>On\u00a0Christmas Eve 1542\u00a0Cabrillo returned south to Catalina Island to overwinter and make repairs. He\u00a0stepped out of his boat, splintered his shin on a jagged rock while trying to rescue some of his men from attacking Tongva warriors, developed gangrene, and died on January 3, 1543. His burial spot is unknown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabrillo National Monument (part of the National Park Service) in San Diego pays tribute to explorer Juan Cabrillo, who sailed into the San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542. Cabrillo Day is September 28, but the\u00a0Cabrillo Festival celebration takes place this weekend. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo The world explorer is credited as the first European to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}