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Explorers Migration Timeline

      1579 – Sir Francis Drake makes port on what is now Point Reyes (Drakes Beach), California and repairs his ship. He stayed for about five weeks and got along very well with the natives. He called the place “Nova Albion” (Latin) or New England for his queen.


      1602 – Sebastian Vizcaino left Mexico City early in the year and six months later he reached modern day San Diego. Then he sailed up to what is now Monterey and claimed that land for the Count of Monte Rey.


      1770 – By this time the settlements in California needed help because they could not receive supplies easily by ship.


      1774 – Juan Bautista de Anza created a land route to “Alta California” (what is now California) from “New Spain” (what is now southern Arizona and Mexico).


      1775 – Bautista left Mexico with 240 colonists and headed for California using the trail he made. They reached California the following year with only one death along the way. He selected the site of modern day San Francisco for the colonists to live and then returned to Mexico.