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- Early Life in Genoa and Portugal
- The Enterprise of The Indies
- Spain Backs Columbus
- The First Voyage, 1492–1493
- The Second Voyage, 1493–1496
- The Third Voyage, 1498–1500
- The Fourth Voyage, 1502–1504
- Last Years
- Columbus in History and Myth
- Bibliography
Christopher Columbus was born in the republic of Genoa. His father, Domenico Colombo, was a wool weaver, wool merchant, tavern keeper, and political appointee. Columbus's early education was limited, although he read widely after reaching adulthood. He went to sea at an early age and sailed the Mediterranean on merchant vessels, traveling as far ea...
Columbus based his ideas about the size of the world and the possibility of a westward voyage to the fabled riches of Asia on rumors of unknown Atlantic islands, unusual objects drifting ashore from the west, and wide reading of academic geography in printed books. He was also influenced by the Italian humanist-geographer Paulo del Pozzo Toscanelli...
Columbus left Portugal for Spain in 1485. After meeting Columbus early in 1486 at Alcalá de Henares, Isabella Iof Castile and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, appointed a commission to investigate the details of Columbus's plan. The spherical shape of the world was never in question. Although the commission disputed Columbus's flawed geography,...
Columbus secured the use of two caravels, the Pinta and the Niña, and a larger nao, the Santa María. With the help of Martín Alonso Pinzón, a prominent local mariner and captain of the Pinta, Columbus gathered a crew of around ninety men, including three from the local jail. The three ships sailed from Palos on 3 August 1492. After repairs and repr...
The Spanish monarchs facilitated Columbus's colonizing effort, and the queen ordered that the native islanders be treated well and converted to Christianity. Columbus found 1,200 men to accompany him as settlers. On 3 November 1493, the fleet of seventeen vessels reached an island in the Caribbean that Columbus named Dominica, then sailed through t...
Despite reports about Columbus's failings as an administrator, the monarchs confirmed his previous grants and gave him permission for a third voyage, with a naoand two caravels for exploration and three more caravels to carry provisions to Hispaniola, plus 300 men and 30 women as additional colonists, including 10 pardoned criminals. Departing from...
With Columbus and his son Hernando sailing on the flagship, a fleet of four rickety caravels with second-rate crews left Spain on 11 May 1502. Departing the Canaries on 25 May, they arrived at Hispaniola on 29 June, even though Columbus was specifically forbidden to land there. Columbus knew that Governor Ovando was about to send a fleet home and s...
Columbus struggled to have all his grants and titles restored. He remained a wealthy man, but he felt betrayed and slighted by his royal patrons. For their part, the Spanish sovereigns justified their withdrawal of support on the basis of Columbus's mismanagement. Colonial settlement had grown too complex for any one person to manage. Surrounded by...
The myths surrounding Columbus make it difficult to put his accomplishments into their proper context. Often he is depicted as a perfect hero in advance of his time who conceived the idea of a spherical earth and had to fight traditional religious beliefs and prejudice before succeeding, and who died poor and alone. None of this is true. A product ...
The most important primary sources dealing with Columbus are Bartolomé De Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, edited by Agustín Millares Carlo, 3 vols. (1951); Ferdinand Columbus, The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand, translated by Benjamin Keen (1959); Cristóbal Colón, Textos y documentos completos, edited by Consuelo V...
Nov 25, 2020 · Lodhi Dynasty (AD 1451- 1526) Reasons for the Success of Sultans of Delhi Sultanate. 1. Local kings lacked unity and organization; divided by rivalries’. 2. There was no central government. 3....
Apr 8, 2009 · A country-wide standard. The typeface was adopted by Germany in 1936 as a standard known as DIN 1451 (DIN is an acronym for Deutsches Institut für Normung—in English, the German Institute for Standardization). The typeface became a standard for traffic signs, street signs, house numbers and license plates.
AD 1451 . . . . . . . Columbus born in Genoa, between. 25 August and 31 October. c. 1471 . . . . . . . . Voyage to Tunis. 1474–75 . . . . . . . One or two voyages to Chios. 1476 . . . . . . . . . . Moves to Portugal. 1477 . . . . . . . . . . Voyage to Iceland. 1478–79 . . . . . . . Voyage to Madeira Islands. 1479 . . . . . . . . . .