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Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (8 October 1760 – 21 October 1805) was a Spanish naval officer, cartographer, and explorer. He mapped various coastlines in Europe and the Americas with unprecedented accuracy using new technology such as chronometers.
Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano y Alcalá-Galiano (Cabra, Córdoba, 8 de octubre de 1760-Cabo Trafalgar, 21 de octubre de 1805) fue un destacado marino, cartógrafo, militar y científico español, brigadier de la Real Armada Española, célebre por su heroica actuación y muerte en la batalla de Trafalgar al mando del navío de línea Bahama.
Biografía de Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano, nacido en Cabra en 1760 y fallecido en Trafalgar en 1805. Destacan sus viajes y trabajos hidrográficos en el Mediterráneo, el estrecho de Magallanes y el Atlántico, así como su participación en la batalla de Trafalgar.
Expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés. Alcalá and Valdés left Acapulco in March 1792 and arrived in Nutka by mid-May. On June 4th, they sailed through the Strait of Fuca and anchored in the port of Núñez Gaona, where they met Salvador Fidalgo. Fidalgo had traveled from San Blas to Núñez Gaona aboard the frigate ...
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (8 October 1760 – 21 October 1805) was a Spanish naval officer, cartographer, and explorer. He mapped various coastlines in Europe and the Americas with unprecedented accuracy using new technology such as chronometers.
ALCALÁ-GALIANO, DIONISIO, naval officer and explorer; b. 1762 in Cabra (Córdoba province), Spain, son of Antonio Alcalá-Galiano Pareja y Valero de la Serna and Antonio Alcalá-Galiano; d. 21 Oct. 1805 in the battle of Trafalgar, off the coast of Spain.
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (1762-1805), was a native of Cabra (Córdoba) and an officer of the [Spanish] Royal Navy. In 1784 he began to work in the service of Vicente Tofiño, and the following year participated in the expedition of Antonio de Córdoba to the Strait of Magellan, aboard the frigate Santa María de la Cabeza .
