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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

1499 - 1543

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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese: João Rodrigues Cabrilho; c. 1497 – January 3, 1543) was a Portuguese maritime explorer best known for investigations of the west coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo has received more than 854,760 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is the 182nd most popular explorer (up from 186th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 711th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Portuguese Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 182 out of 498. Before him are Anthony van Diemen, Jacob van Heemskerck, John Rolfe, Hendrik Brouwer, Gerónimo de Aguilar, and Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney. After him are William Parry, Fernão do Pó, René Caillié, Sophie Blanchard, Nikolai Rezanov, and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 12. Before him are Claude of France, Peter of Alcantara, Bernardino de Sahagún, Claude Garamond, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, and Maria Salviati. After him are Michiel Coxie, Jan Łaski, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Garcia de Orta, Sebastian Franck, and Laurentius Petri. Among people deceased in 1543, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 10. Before him are Afonso I of Kongo, Al-Mutawakkil III, Johann Eck, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, and Maria Salviati. After him are Francesco Canova da Milano, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Susanna of Bavaria, Sebastian Franck, Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and Melchior Hoffman.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 170 out of 633. Before him are Afonso I, Duke of Braganza (1377), Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal (1125), Vítor Baía (1969), Joaquim de Almeida (1957), Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja (1506), and Constance of Portugal (1290). After him are Fernando Gomes (1956), Infanta Maria of Guimarães (1538), Ferdinand the Holy Prince (1402), Isabel Luísa, Princess of Beira (1669), Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), and Joanna, Princess of Portugal (1452).

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Among EXPLORERS In Portugal

Among explorers born in Portugal, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ranks 21. Before him are Gil Eanes (null), Pêro da Covilhã (1450), Pedro Mascarenhas (1484), Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (1455), Gaspar Corte-Real (1450), and António de Abreu (1480). After him are Bartolomeu Perestrello (1400), Estêvão Gomes (1484), Duarte Pacheco Pereira (1460), Nuno Tristão (1500), Jorge Álvares (1401), and Tristão Vaz Teixeira (1395).

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