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According to the journal of his voyage, on February 14, Columbus was caught in a storm off the Azores islands. The resulting poor condition of his ship forced him to put in at Lisbon on March 4, 1493. Columbus finally arrived at Palos de la Frontera in Spain eleven days later, on March 15, 1493. [5]
Some claimed that Columbus was captured, but this is contradicted by Columbus's logbook. [68] Leaving the island of Santa Maria in the Azores on 23 February, Columbus headed for Castilian Spain, but another storm forced him into Lisbon. He anchored next to a king's harbor patrol ship on 4 March 1493, where he was told a fleet of 100 caravels ...
Inter caetera ('Among other [works]') was a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on the 4 May 1493, which granted to the Catholic Monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile all lands to the "west and south" of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde islands ...
On 14 February 1493, in the east of the Azores, a storm threatened to capsize Niña, and at Columbus's instigation, he and the crew took a series of vows to perform certain acts including religious pilgrimages upon their return to Spain. [5] Niña reached Lisbon, Portugal, on 4 March 1493, and arrived in Palos de la Frontera on 15 March 1493. [6]
Year 1493 was a common year ... (Christopher Columbus is delayed by a storm in the Azores). ... November 19 – Christopher Columbus lands on the coast of the island ...
On March 15, 1493, after having touched down at the Azores and at Lisbon, the Niña arrived on the banks of the Río Tinto in the Spanish province of Huelva.Columbus, the Niño brothers and the rest of the crew from Moguer headed immediately to Moguer, [4] bringing with them some Caribbean natives whom they had taken on their voyage back, and also bringing several parrots.
During the voyage back to Spain, Pinzón's ship was separated from Columbus in stormy conditions, southwest of the Azores. [51] Pinzón arrived in Baiona in Galicia, near Vigo, 1 March 1493; [61] Columbus reached Lisbon on March 4; he later faced problems with the Court for having touched down in Portugal out of necessity in bad weather. [62]
In 1493 Columbus arrived at Lisbon with news of the new world, and reported that he had sailed out of sight of land for five weeks. In 1497 Vasco da Gama chose a very obvious and very bold route. After rounding the bulge of Africa, he sailed directly south across the trade winds and, helped by the Brazil Current, reached the roaring forties ...