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Mendaña de Neyra’s expedition discovers "a low …
Years: 1568 - 1568
Mendaña de Neyra’s expedition discovers "a low barren island, judged to be eight leagues in circumference," to which he gives the name of "San Francisco," on October 20, 1568. (The island will eventually be named for Captain Samuel Wake, master of the British trading schooner Prince William Henry, who visits in 1796.)
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Years: 1568 - 1568
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