1789 - Exploration, Colonization

Exploration, Colonization

Rochester, New York, is founded by Yankee miller Ebenezer Allen, who settles in a swamp on the bank of the Genesee River at the point where it empties into Lake Ontario.

Explorer Alejandro Malaspina leaves Cádiz July 30 with the corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida on a government-sponsored expedition to Latin America and Asia (see 1788). Built especially for the purpose, his three-masted, shallow-draft ships are 120 feet in length, 31½ feet wide in the beam, and have copper-lined wooden bottoms; the venture will take 5 years and take Malaspina around the world once again (see 1791).