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Topic: Grito de Lares, or Lares uprising
Location: Tortona > Dertona Piemonte Italy

After a visit to Manila, Lapérouse sets …

Years: 1787 - 1787
April
After a visit to Manila, Lapérouse sets out for the northeast Asian coasts the next year, on April 9, 1787.

He sees the island of Quelpart, in the Korean Peninsula, (present-day Cheju in South Korea), which had been visited by Europeans only once before when a group of Dutchmen shipwrecked there in 1635.

He visits the Asian mainland coasts of Korea.