Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.

carrack used by Christopher Columbus

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. He went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492 [OS]. He built La Navidad on the northwestern coast of the island of Hispaniola in late December 1492, the first European fort in the Americas. After the destruction of the fort by the indigenous Taíno people, Columbus established La Isabela on the central-northern coast of the island in late December 1493, the first stable European settlement in the Americas.

caravel used by Christopher Columbus

international airport of Genoa, Italy

caravel used by Christopher Columbus, ship, 1491

anecdote

Spanish explorer born in the Andalusian province of Huelva, in the Town of Lepe.

Spanish explorer

thumb|240px|This page from Alain Manesson Mallet's five-volume world atlas shows the islet of Guanahani, the site of Columbus' first landing in 1492

1492–1504 voyages to the Americas; beginning of the Columbian exchange

signed document between Christopher Columbus and the rulers of Spain

Spanish explorer

Spanish explorer

Spanish finance minister

Total lunar eclipse

German-Danish sailor and privateer (d. 1490)

Spanish sailors, pirates, explorers and fishermen

Governor: first documented European settlement in the New World/La Navidad

Lawsuits of heirs of Christopher Columbus against Spain

building in Genoa, Italy

history studies about the origins of Christopher Columbus

Spanish maritidition, 15029–1504

thumb|right|The Fontanilla, in Palos de la Frontera. The Fontanilla is the former public fountain of Palos de la Frontera in Spain where, according to tradition, these fountains provided the water for the ships of Christopher Columbus's first voyage—the Santa María, the Niña, and the Pinta—when, on 3 August 1492, they departed from Palos de la Frontera, captained by Columbus and by Palos's own Pinzón Brothers upon the voyage widely considered to have led the "discovery" of what historians term the "New World".

tourist route in the Spanish province Huelva

family of Spanish sailors and conquistadors

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non-fiction work by Charles C. Mann