In the decades following the historic voyage of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492, Mexico underwent much exploration and development — not to mention financial exploitation — by conquistadors ...

Sept. 28 was the 483rd anniversary of the arrival of the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo aboard the San Salvador at what we now call San Diego Bay. The San Salvador was the first European ...

Cabrillo National Monument is located near San Diego, California. In 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo stepped into history as the first European to set foot on what is now the West Coast of the United ...

Cabrillo National Monument is located near San Diego, California. In 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo stepped into history as the first European to set foot on what is now the West Coast of the United ...