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Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548–1624) was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Baja California peninsula, the California coast and Asia. Early career [ edit ]
Sebastian Vizcaíno left Mexico City on March 7, 1602, and arrived in Acapulco on the 19th. His expedition sailed on May 5, 1602 with four vessels, described as two ships (the San Diego and Santo Tomás ), a frigate (the Tres Reyes ), and a long boat.
In San Diego: History. …de Henares in 1602 by Sebastián Vizcaíno. Gaspar de Portolá founded a presidio (military post) there on July 16, 1769, and, on the same day, Father Junípero Serra dedicated the first of the California missions (restored 1931).
Sebastián Vizcaíno ( b. 1548; d. 1623), Spanish explorer and cartographer of the Californias. A native of Estremadura, Vizcaíno was a cavalry commander in the invasion of Portugal in 1580.
Sebastián Vizcaíno (1550?-1615) was an established merchant in the trade between Mexico and Asia when he gained the royal license to explore and settle the Gulf of California. In 1596, he led an expedition to establish a colony at La Paz and explore the inner coast of the Gulf.
To Vizcaíno, a Spanish merchant-adventurer, we owe the names of many places along the California coast. EARLY HISTORY. Sebastián Vizcaíno was a Basque (a people who lived in the Pyrenees Mountains of France and Spain). He served in the Spanish forces when they invaded Portugal in 1580.
Apr 1, 1972 · Appointed as leader of this new enterprise by the Viceroy, Conde de Monterrey, was Sebastián Vizcaíno, a man of considerable experience in the Pacific. Born in 1548 in Extremadura, Vizcaíno had served in the Portuguese campaigns of 1580 and had come to New Spain in 1583.
