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The new royal prosecutor attempted to demonstrate that the discovery of the West Indies had principally been achieved thanks to Martín Alonso Pinzón, not Columbus. He called as witnesses surviving members of the crew of the first voyage to America. [7] Two verdicts were given: in Dueñas (1534) and in Madrid (1535), but both were appealed. [5]
Christopher Columbus [b] (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; [2] between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian [3] [c] explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa [3] [4] who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
In 1500, during his third voyage, Columbus was arrested by a royal commissioner and brought back to Spain in chains. Spanish royalty accused him of mismanaging the colony Hispaniola, but he was ...
Columbus spoke with an elder, and thought he described having seen people with swords and horses (possibly the Spaniards), and that they were "only ten days' journey to the river Ganges". [167] On 14 August, Columbus landed on the mainland of the Americas at Puerto Castilla, near Trujillo, Honduras .
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 ...
This change got a lot of people fired up on social media, though. One Facebook user wrote: "No, Minneapolis. It's still Columbus day and I will now celebrate it just out of spite." Still, there ...
October 1 – Christopher Columbus and his brothers, arrested and in chains, are deported from Santo Domingo to Spain. [ 21 ] October 22 – Nasir-ud-Din Shah overthrows the government of his father, Ghiyath Shah , ruler of the Malwa Sultanate (located in much of what is now the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh ) for the last 31 years. [ 22 ]
On Monday, Trump also issued sweeping pardons for roughly 1,500 people related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, fulfilling a campaign promise to wipe clean the records of most people ...