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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.
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 "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
October 28 – Josiah Henson, a slave who fled and arrived in Canada, is an author, abolitionist, minister, and the inspiration behind the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. [35] 1831. William Lloyd Garrison begins publication of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator. He declares ownership of a slave is a great sin, and must stop immediately. [citation ...
The Taíno were the first pre-Columbian people to encounter Christopher Columbus during his voyage in 1492. [88] The Taíno would later be subject to slavery by the Spanish colonists under the encomienda system until they were deemed virtually extinct in 1565.
“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.”
Despite support for slavery, it was not until the defeat of the Spanish by Georgia's British colonials in the 1740s (Battle of Bloody Marsh) that arguments for opening the colony to slavery intensified. To staff Georgia's new rice plantations and settlements, the colony's proprietors relented in 1751, and African slavery grew quickly.