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2. Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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   Christopher Columbus House in Genoa, Italy, an 18th-century reconstruction of the house in which Columbus grew up. The original was likely destroyed during the 1684 bombardment of Genoa. [10] [11] Columbus's early life is obscure, but scholars believe he was born in the Republic of Genoa between 25 August and 31 October 1451. [12]

3. Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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   Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906. (ed., Different version available) Young, Alexander Bell Filson, Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery; a Narrative, with a Note on the Navigation of Columbus's First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, v. 2.

4. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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   1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola. 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year. 1493: The colony of La Isabela is established on the island of Hispaniola. [6] 1493: Columbus arrives in Puerto Rico

5. 21 Facts You Never Learned About Christopher Columbus

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   Not much is known about Columbus’ early life, but as a young man, he was allegedly involved in an attack on Spanish ships off the coast of North Africa. ... nearly 500 years earlier. Though Leif ...

6. March 1504 lunar eclipse - Wikipedia

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   A total lunar eclipse occurred on 1 March 1504, visible at sunset for the Americas, and later over night over Europe and Africa, and near sunrise over Asia.. During his fourth and last voyage, Christopher Columbus induced the inhabitants of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidating them by correctly predicting a total lunar eclipse for 1 March 1504 ...

7. Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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   In 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain funded Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus's (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo) plan to sail west to reach the Indies, by crossing the Atlantic. Columbus encountered a continent uncharted by Europeans (though it had been explored and temporarily colonized by the Norse 500 years earlier). [25]

8. Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe ...

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   A view of the statue of Christopher Columbus at the square that bears his name, Plaza de Colon, in Madrid, Spain October 10, 2024.

9. Origin theories of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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   Posthumous representation of Christopher Columbus, as depicted in The Virgin of the Navigators by Alejo Fernández, 1531–36. The ethnic or national origin of explorer Christopher Columbus (1450 or 1451 – 1506) has been a source of speculation since the 19th century. [1]