Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions
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Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions were late 16th-century Spanish voyages led by Álvaro de Mendaña that sought to explore and claim vast, largely unknown regions of the South Pacific for the Spanish Crown.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Die Entdeckung des Pazifiks | 1 |
| Mendaña expedition to the Pacific in 1595 | 1 |
| Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions canonical | 1 |
| Pacific voyages 1595–1606 | 1 |
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Target entity: Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions Context triple: [Todos los Santos, partOf, Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions]
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Expedition to Chiloé
The Expedition to Chiloé was a Chilean military campaign aimed at wresting control of the Chiloé Archipelago from remaining Spanish royalist forces during the later stages of the Chilean War of Independence.
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B.
Voyage to the Moluccas
Voyage to the Moluccas was the early 16th-century Spanish expedition, led by Ferdinand Magellan and later Juan Sebastián Elcano, that first circumnavigated the globe in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands.
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Proliv La Peruz
Proliv La Peruz is the Russian name for the La Pérouse Strait, a narrow sea passage separating Japan’s Hokkaido from Russia’s Sakhalin Island.
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Helder Expedition
The Helder Expedition was a 1799 joint British and Russian military campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars aimed at seizing control of the northern Netherlands from French-aligned forces.
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Supplément au voyage de Bougainville
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that critiques European colonialism and morality through a fictional commentary on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s Pacific voyage.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions Target entity description: Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions were late 16th-century Spanish voyages led by Álvaro de Mendaña that sought to explore and claim vast, largely unknown regions of the South Pacific for the Spanish Crown.
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A.
Expedition to Chiloé
The Expedition to Chiloé was a Chilean military campaign aimed at wresting control of the Chiloé Archipelago from remaining Spanish royalist forces during the later stages of the Chilean War of Independence.
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B.
Voyage to the Moluccas
Voyage to the Moluccas was the early 16th-century Spanish expedition, led by Ferdinand Magellan and later Juan Sebastián Elcano, that first circumnavigated the globe in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands.
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C.
Proliv La Peruz
Proliv La Peruz is the Russian name for the La Pérouse Strait, a narrow sea passage separating Japan’s Hokkaido from Russia’s Sakhalin Island.
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D.
Helder Expedition
The Helder Expedition was a 1799 joint British and Russian military campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars aimed at seizing control of the northern Netherlands from French-aligned forces.
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E.
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that critiques European colonialism and morality through a fictional commentary on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s Pacific voyage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Age of Discovery voyage
ⓘ
Spanish maritime expedition ⓘ |
| associatedNavigator |
Pedro Fernández de Quirós
ⓘ
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ⓘ |
| claimedFor |
Kingdom of Spain
ⓘ
Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| consequence |
contributed to European knowledge of Oceania
ⓘ
stimulated later Spanish Pacific voyages ⓘ |
| deathOfLeader | Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira died during the second voyage in 1595 ⓘ |
| discovered |
Marquesas Islands
ⓘ
Santa Cruz Islands ⓘ Solomon Islands ⓘ |
| endYear | 1595 ⓘ |
| firstVoyageYear | 1567 ⓘ |
| flag | Spain ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Spanish expansion after conquest of Peru
ⓘ
competition with Portugal in the Pacific ⓘ |
| leader | Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira ⓘ |
| legacy |
early European contact with several Melanesian and Polynesian island groups
ⓘ
influenced later voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós ⓘ |
| notableShip |
Los Reyes
ⓘ
San Jerónimo ⓘ Santa Isabel ⓘ Todos los Santos ⓘ |
| numberOfMajorVoyages | 2 ⓘ |
| originPort | Callao ⓘ |
| originTerritory | Viceroyalty of Peru ⓘ |
| patron | Philip II of Spain ⓘ |
| purpose |
claim new lands for Spain
ⓘ
exploration of the South Pacific Ocean ⓘ search for Terra Australis ⓘ spread Christianity ⓘ territorial expansion of the Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| regionExplored |
Marquesas Islands region
ⓘ
linked to:
Marquesas Islands
Santa Cruz Islands region ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Cruz Islands
Solomon Islands region ⓘ
linked to:
Solomon Islands
South Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Spanish exploration of the Pacific
ⓘ
search for Terra Australis Incognita ⓘ |
| religiousRole | Catholic missionary activity ⓘ |
| result |
extension of Spanish influence into the Pacific
ⓘ
no permanent Spanish colonies established in the Solomon Islands ⓘ partial mapping of the southwest Pacific ⓘ |
| secondVoyageYear | 1595 ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Spanish Crown
ⓘ
linked to:
Crown of Spain
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| startYear | 1567 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 16th century ⓘ |
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