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2026 date. October 12 (United States) Frequency. Annual. Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the Americas. He went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on ...
October 13, 2024 at 9:00 PM. The second Monday of October marks Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day in the United States. In 2022, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Indigenous ...
Columbus Day commemorates explorer Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Columbus, an Italian explorer leading a Spanish exploration, landed in the Americas in 1492.
Christopher Columbus[b] (/ kəˈlʌmbəs /; [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 ...
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 ...
Bust of Christopher Columbus (1993) located at 2500 Easy Street, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. Sarasota. Bust of Christopher Columbus located at Bay Shore Road 5401 (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art) Sarasota. Christopher Columbus Statue (1925) located at St. Armands Circle, St. Armand's key.
Columbus Day celebrates the day Christopher Columbus landed in what would become North America in 1492. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt marked Oct. 12 as a national holiday. It was moved ...
A letter written by Christopher Columbus on February 15, 1493, is the first known document announcing the results of his first voyage that set out in 1492 and reached the Americas. The letter was ostensibly written by Columbus himself, aboard the caravel Niña, on the return leg of his voyage. [2] A postscript was added upon his arrival in ...