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Panfilo de Narvaez was one of the first European explorers to visit Louisiana, in 1528.

Hernando de Soto followed the Mississippi River down to the Gulf of Mexico in 1543.

Robert Cavelier de La Salle named the region Louisiana in 1682 as the French explored the region (named in honor of France's King Louis XIV).

Note that the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase on December 20, 1803.

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