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Sep 20, 1451
Columbus was born
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Period: Sep 28, 1451 to May 20, 1506
christopher columbus
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Oct 16, 1453
merchants sudedenly stopped trading
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Dec 21, 1476
christopher columbus was sailing past portugal when his ship was attacked by an enemy
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Feb 16, 1478
christopher married a young lady who came from a noble family with friends at court
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Apr 28, 1484
he went ot the king of portugal and asked for ships and money for his trip to the indies
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Jul 7, 1485
columbus went to spain. his wife had died leaving him with a son diego who he put in the care of monks in a spanish monastery
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Jan 20, 1489
he returned to spain and he still had three more years to wait until the queen finished her war and beat the Moors
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Aug 3, 1492
columbus set sail from spain taking three ships with him ( the nina, the pinta, and the santa maria
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Sep 6, 1492
they pulled up anchor and sailed into the Unknown
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Sep 25, 1492
Martin Pinzon, captain of the Pinta, shouted "Teirra, Tierra land land"
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Sep 26, 1492
there was no sign of land anywhere. THEY MUST HAVE SEEN CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON THAT LOOKED LIKE LAND.
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Oct 7, 1492
The Nina raised a flag and fired a cannon, the signal that land had been sighted. Another false alarm
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Oct 10, 1492
The men announced that they couldn't stand it no longer. They must turn back
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Oct 11, 1492
Columbus gave orders that instead of dropping anchor, the three ships would sail right on.
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Oct 12, 1492
At two o clock in the morning a cannon was fired from the Pinta
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus and the other sailors met the other Americans
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Dec 23, 1492
Columbus estimated that in the course of one hour more than 1000 persons visited the ships
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Dec 24, 1492
Christopher Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, sailed north for the harbor closest to that part of Hispaniola that was obviously Japan
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Dec 24, 1492
The Santa Maria sunk
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Dec 25, 1492
Columbus sailed to Haiti
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Jan 4, 1493
Columbus set sail for Spain
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Mar 15, 1493
They arrived back in Spain
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Sep 13, 1493
Columbus set out on his second trip to the Indies
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Nov 27, 1493
Columbus and his men arrived at Hispaniola
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Nov 28, 1493
Columbus found the fort burned down, the Spaniards dead
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Jan 26, 1494
1494 through 1496- one third of the native population of Hispaniola was killed, sold, or scared away
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Sep 28, 1495
Columbus returned to Isabella and he was sick from nervous exhaustion
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Mar 11, 1496
Columbus set sail for Spain to set things right with the king and queen
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May 30, 1498
Columbus set sail for the south
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Aug 23, 1500
Francis de Bobadilla, a special representative of the crown, arrived in Hispaniola
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Feb 27, 1502
Vasco da Gama was going again to the Indies
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Mar 2, 1502
Columbus was back at sea, which was his fourth trip that he called his "High Voyage"
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Dec 25, 1502
On Christmas night the four ships snchored off Panama, not more than thirty two milesw from the Pacific Ocean, but even if Columbus had known how close he was to the other side, there was no way to reach it whith his ships
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Apr 6, 1503
A force of four hundred natives attacked the Spanish fort and before the fighting was over, twelve Spaniards had been killed
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Jun 25, 1503
When they reached the island of Jamaica, the ships could stay afloat no longer. The men ran them ashore and beached them together, for this was where they would live
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Jun 19, 1504
Columbus had no ship to sapre, he said, nor did he send one until now
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Nov 7, 1504
Columbus did not reach Spain until now
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Nov 26, 1504
Queen Isabella died three weeks after Columbus's arrival
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May 20, 1506
Columubus died
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Oct 11, 1513
Balboa crossed thsoe few miles at Panama and claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain