Christopher Columbus: Timeline

1451   Born

1479   Christopher Columbus - experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese "ex-pat" community in Portugal Portugal

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, '''marries''' Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side) and receives no ordinary dowry''':''' Her late father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands and other Portuguese possessions in the Ocean Sea.

1492   Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

1492   Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean Caribbean

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. The Italian Italy

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 explorer believes he has reached East Asia.

1493   Christopher Columbus leaves the New World New World

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1493   Christopher Columbus returns to Spain Spain

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 after his first trip to the Americas Americas

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1493   Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

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1494   Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica Jamaica

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1496   Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola Hispaniola

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 for Spain Spain

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, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.

1498   Christopher Columbus lands on the South America South America

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n continent.

1498   On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad Trinidad and Tobago

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1498   Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, founds the city of Santo Domingo Santo Domingo

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, now part of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic

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, making it the oldest European City and permanent settlement in the New World New World

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1502   Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and named the mainland "Honduras Honduras

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1502   Christopher Columbus leaves Spain Spain

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 for his fourth and final trip to the "New World New World

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".

1503   Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands and he names them ''Las Tortugas'' after the numerous sea turtles there.

1504   Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America Central America

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 from Belize Belize

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 to Panama Panama

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1504   Christopher Columbus uses his knowldege of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.

1506   Died