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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.
The film was a flop in the United States, debuting at number 7 with a gross of $3,002,680 (about $6.5 million today), [11] worse than the opening of Christopher Columbus: The Discovery earlier in the year, and went on to gross just $7 million [13] [14] [15] ($15.2 million today). [11]
This page from Alain Manesson Mallet's five-volume world atlas shows the islet of Guanahani, the site of Columbus' first landing in 1492. Guanahaní (meaning "small upper waters land") [1] was the Taíno name of an island in the Bahamas that was the first land in the New World sighted and visited by Christopher Columbus' first voyage, on 12 October 1492.
San Salvador derives from the Spanish Isla San Salvador ("Island of the Holy Savior"), bestowed by Christopher Columbus in honor of Jesus Christ in thanks for his fleet's safe arrival [3] in what he thought was East Asia. Columbus recorded the natives' name for the place as Guanaham, [3] now considered to be a mistranscription of Taíno ...
On October 11 in 1492: Christopher Columbus reached new land across the Atlantic Ocean in the Bahamas. He claimed the land on behalf of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain. Other Events on October 11: ...
Samana Cay is a now uninhabited island in the Bahamas believed by some researchers to have been the location of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas on October 12, 1492. [ 1 ] It is an islet in the eastern Bahamas, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Acklins Island .
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
He gathered information later that year from the natives of Central America which seem to further indicate that he realized he had found a new land. [ 169 ] [ 168 ] Vespucci, who had initially followed Columbus in the belief that he had reached Asia, [ 179 ] suggested in a 1503 letter to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco that he had known for two years ...