christopher columbus

     

Christopher Columbus (bt. August an October 1451 – May 20, 1506) was an Italian navigator, colonizer, and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the Western Hemisphere and of the American continents within. Though not the first to reach the Americas from Afro-Eurasia — preceded some five-hundred years by Leif Ericson, and perhaps others — Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. With his several hapless attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, he personally initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World". The term Pre-Columbian is sometimes used to refer to the people and cultures of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus and his European successors.

Trivia about christopher columbus

  • In 1484, Portugal rejected his "Enterprise of the Indies" plan, so he sought support in Spain
  • In 1502, during his last voyage to the Americas, he sighted what is now Nicaragua
  • 492 years ago on Aug. 3rd, he set sail across the Atlantic
  • Felipa Perestrello married this explorer but died soon after their son Diego was born in 1480
  • On Dec. 25, 1492, his ship the Santa Maria was wrecked off Hispaniola
  • He "discovered" the island of Saint-Barthelemy in 1493 & named it for his brother, Bartholomeo
  • March 15, 1493:This explorer returns to Spain when the Nina docks at Palos
  • His 1493 stop at Puerto Rico is the foundation for the claim he "discovered America", meaning the U.S.
  • In 1493 he reached Montserrat in the West Indies & named it for a Spanish mountain
  • In 1498 he first set foot on the South American mainland in what is now Venezuela
  • Wheat was introduced to the New World by this explorer in 1493
  • When he left for his second voyage in September of 1493, he had a fleet of seventeen ships, fourteen more than his first trip
  • Ferdinand & Isabella promised to make him "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" if he was successful in his 1492 voyage
  • Samuel Eliot Morison won a Pulitzer for "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", about this man who died in 1506
  • It stands to reason Colombia's highest peak is named for this explorer
  • In May 1486, he was received by Queen Isabella, to whom he explained his plan to sail west to Asia
  • This man's expeditionary flag bore the initials "F & Y" for Ferdinand & Ysabel
  • On August 3, 1492 he & his crew left Palos, Spain, heading southwest & then west
  • In 1492 he chartered the Santa Maria from Juan de la Cosa, who became its sailing master
  • He overestimated the size of Asia & underestimated the Earth, so he thought he'd reached the Orient
  • The ship on Grenada's coat-of-arms represents this explorer who discovered the island in 1498
  • King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain sent this explorer on his 1492 voyage
  • A statue of this explorer points to the sea from atop a 167' column near Barcelona's harbor
  • In 1502, during his fourth voyage to the New World, he landed in what is now Honduras
  • In 1992 Santo Domingo's Quinto Centenario celebration honored this explorer's discovery
  • His second voyage, beginning in 1493, included visits to Jamaica & Puerto Rico
  • On Oct. 28, 1492 he landed at Cuba, first calling it Juana in honor of the Spanish rulers' daughter
  • Haiti is part of Hispaniola, a corrupted form of Espanola, the name he gave to the island
  • 4 places claimed to be the burial site of this explorer, including crypts in Seville & Santo Domingo
  • On Oct. 12, 1492 he thought he'd reached Asia; in fact, the closest he ever got was an Aegean island as a young man
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.) An orbital facility is being built for the ISS that bears the name of this man born in Genoa in 1451
  • On his fourth voyage to the New World in 1503, he was marooned in Jamaica for one year
  • In 1482 he submitted his plans for exploration to King John of Portugal
  • He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 & died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506
  • In 1500 Francisco de Bobadilla arrived in Santo Domingo & sent this man back to Spain in shackles
  • In May 1502, with his son Ferdinand, he set sail on his fourth & last transatlantic voyage
  • Sailor who in 1500 got the Father's Day card:To a Great Dad,Someday you'll get your own day!Love,Diego
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) Russia filled this Resurs 500 space capsule with greetings to the American people & launched it in 1992 to commemorate this man's voyage
  • On his fourth voyage to the New World, 1502-1504, he reached Panama but did not cross the isthmus
  • For a fabulous view of Barcelona, take the elevator to the top of the Monument a Colom, built to honor him
  • 1992:Gerard Depardieu as this explorer
  • His quincentenary was celebrated with a coin in 1992
  • La Rabida, a Franciscan monastery in Spain, was home to this explorer in 1485 & later, to Hernando Cortes
  • This captain scared the locals in Jamaica in 1504 when he predicted an eclipse & it happened
  • On Nov. 7, 1504 this captain arrived back in Spain, his ocean voyaging done
  • He told Spain he planned to use the proceeds from his trip to Asia to help recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims
  • From 1937 to 1940 Samuel Eliot Morison researched a 450th anniversary bio by retracing this man's voyages
  • A big band number said this man "sailed the sea without a compass, when his men began a rumpus"
  • (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of "Black Profiles In Courage") The first known black man in the Americas, Pedro Alonzo Nino, was this man's navigator in 1492"
  • 1992 commemorative coins honored the quincentennial of his greatest achievement