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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.
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
Slave markets existed in several Georgia cities and towns, including Albany, [16] Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville, and above all, in Savannah. [17] In 1859 Savannah was the site of a slave sale colloquially known as the Weeping Time , one of the largest slave sales in the history of the United States. [ 18 ]
In a Portuguese map of 1520, [nb 11] it is said: "Land of the Antipodes of the King of Castile, discovered by Christopher Columbus Genoese." The German Peter von Bennewitz writes, in 1520, in the Typus Orbis Universalis : [ 20 ] "In the year 1497 ( sic ) this land (America) with the adjacent islands was discovered by Columbus, a Genoese by ...
1492 – Christopher Columbus' first voyage. [1] 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal. 1496 – Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled. 1497 – First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage. [1]
The attempt failed after a month and Ayllón moved the colony, including the slaves, to what is now the state of Georgia. [1] [2] This colony also failed, but slavery would continue in Georgia until 1865. [3] 1565. The Spanish colony of St. Augustine in Florida became the first permanent European settlement in what would become the U.S ...
“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said. “He was a man far beyond his time.”
The "Columbus map", depicting only the Old World, was drawn c. 1490 in the workshop of Bartolomeo and Christopher Columbus in Lisbon. [16] Handwritten notes by Christopher Columbus on the Latin edition of Marco Polo 's Le livre des merveilles