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San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 October 1492 during his first voyage.
Upon first landing in the West, Columbus pondered enslaving the natives, [m] and upon his return broadcast the perceived willingness of the natives to convert to Christianity. [72] Columbus's second voyage saw the first major skirmish between Europeans and Native Americans for five centuries, when the Vikings had come to the Americas. [ 34 ]
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.
On this day in history, Christopher Columbus reached new land, October 12, 1492. Jasmine Genge. Updated July 14, 2016 at 7:19 PM 'This Day in History': 10/12/1492 - Columbus Set Sail.
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.
The bay was the location of a Taino village and batey since the 1300s, until conquered by the Caribs in 1425. The Columbus landing site is located on a point at the western side of the bay. It is here that Columbus sent a longboat to shore on November 14, 1493, to explore the area and acquire fresh water and provisions.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day as a national holiday in 1934 (originally observed on October 12) to commemorate the landing of explorer Christopher Columbus in the ...
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 .