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Christopher Columbus's journal (Diario) is a diary and logbook written by Christopher Columbus about his first voyage.The journal covers events from 3 August 1492, when Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, to 15 March 1493 and includes a prologue addressing the sovereigns. [1]
The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom in what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia, in the United States. [1] It was inhabited from about 1400 until about 1600, and dominated several smaller chiefdoms. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Born in Columbus [1] Megan Blake: Miss Georgia 1983 Born in Columbus Bob the Drag Queen (Caldwell Tidicue) June 22, 1986 Drag queen and comedian, won season 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race: Born in Columbus, studied theater at Columbus State University - Wayne Brady: Jun 2, 1972: Actor, singer, comedian, and television personality Born in Columbus ...
Diego Columbus (Spanish: Diego Colón) was a Lucayan Taíno taken from the island of Guanahani and adopted by Christopher Columbus. Diego's Lucayan name is unknown, but he was an inhabitant of Guanahani (later San Salvador) in October of 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall during his first voyage. During the fleet's stay at the island ...
Upon first landing in the West, Columbus pondered enslaving the natives, [l] and upon his return broadcast the perceived willingness of the natives to convert to Christianity. [71] 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]
Illustrative woodcut from the Latin edition of Columbus's letter printed in Basel in 1494. [1]A letter written by Christopher Columbus on February 15, 1493, is the first known document announcing the completion of his first voyage across the Atlantic, which set out in 1492 and reached the Americas.
Columbus left 39 men and founded the settlement of La Navidad in what is now Haiti. [106] Before returning to Spain, he kidnapped some ten to twenty-five natives and took them back with him. Only seven or eight of the native 'Indians' arrived in Spain alive, but they made an impression on Seville . [ 107 ]