Christopher Columbus

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Voyages to the New World

Pictures about his trip

Christopher song

Christopher Day

A controversial hero

CHRISTOPHER COMLUMBUS EXPLORER

Columbus was born in Genoa

(a seaport now part of Italy)

sometime between August 25 and October 31, 1451

Italian: Cristoforo Colombo

Catalan: Cristòfor Colom

Spanish: Cristóbal Colón

Portuguese: Cristóvão Colombo

Latin: Christophorus Columbus

His mother was Susan Fontanarossa who married

Domenico Columbo They both were wool-weavers

And owned cheese stand at which everyone in a family Worked

Comlumbus brothers were : Bartolomeo (later a

cartograhper in Lisbon) Giovanni, Giacomo

His sister was : Bianchinatta

He also worked as a seagoing businessman, buying And selling goods

In Libon, he met and married Dona Filipa Perestrello

e Moniz It was a good marriage She is a daughter

of Bartolomeo Peresttrello, the governor of Porto

Santo

And his first son, Deigo, was born in 1480

During his last years, Columbus had a comfortable income from his share of the gold that was found

in Hispaniola However, he was unhappy because King Ferdinand denied him some of the other

rewards he had promised Moreover, he was sick and in great pain from arthritis He died in 1506 at The age of 54 and was buried in Spain In 1542, his Nody was moved to the Dominican Republic, once part of “his” colony-Hispaniola He may still buried There.

First voyage (3 August 1492-15 March 1493) Second voyage (24 September 1493-1496) Third voyage (1498-1500) and arrest

Fourth voyage (1502-1504)

First voyage (3 August 1492-15 March 1493) Second voyage (24 September 1493-1496) Third voyage (1498-1500) and arrest

Fourth voyage (1502-1504)

First voyage (3 August 1492-15 March 1493)

The First Trip:

Columbus sailed for King Ferdinand

II and Queen Isabella of Spain On his first trip, Columbus led an

expedition with 3 ships, the Niña (captained by Vicente Yáñez

Pinzon), the Pinta (owned and captained by Martin Alonzo Pinzon), and the Santa Maria (captained by Columbus), and about 90 crew

members They set sail on Aug 3,

1492 from Palos, Spain, and on October 11, 1492, spotted the Caribbean islands off southeastern North America

They landed on an island they called Guanahani, but Columbus later renamed it San Salvador They were met by the local Taino Indians, many of whom were captured by

Columbus' men and later sold into slavery Columbus thought he had made it to Asia, and called this area the Indies, and called its inhabitants Indians

Hispaniola (now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Cuba, and many other smaller islands On the return trip, the Santa Maria was wrecked and the captain of the Pinta sailed off on his own to try to beat Columbus back Columbus returned to Spain in the Nina, arriving on March 15,

1493

First voyage (3 August 1492-15 March 1493)

Just where did Columbus first see the New World

Second voyage (24 September 1493-1496)

On a second, larger expedition (Sept 25, 1493- June 11, 1496), he sailed with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 mento find gold and capture Indians as slaves in the Indies.

Columbus established a base

in Hispaniola and sailed around Hispaniola and along thelength of southern Cuba

Third voyage (1498-1500)

On a third expedition (May 30, 1498

October,1500), Columbus sailed farther south, to Trinidad and Venezuela (including the mouth of the Orinoco

River).

Columbus was the first European since the Viking Leif Ericsson to set foot

on the mainland of America

Fourth voyage (1502-1504)

On his fourth and last expedition (May 9, 1502-Nov

7, 1504) Columbus sailed to Mexico, Honduras and Panama (in Central America) and

Discoverer's Day is celebrated on the second Monday of

October

The holiday is aslo celebrated in Italy and in most Spanish-speaking

countries.

In some places, it’s aslo called Landing Day or Discover

day.

In many Latin American

Columbus day celebratioms often involve parades, patriotic speeches And dramatizations

of the landing

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