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Oct 31, 1451
Columbus is born
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Mar 22, 1465
Columbus was a teenager when he first set sail
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Mar 22, 1477
Columbus joins his brother Bartholomew in Lisbon to work as a cartographer
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Mar 22, 1479
Christopher Columbus married a noblewoman called Felipa Perestrello Moniz
Her father had been explorer called Bartolomeu Perestrello.
Felipa gave Christopher Columbus her dead father's charts of the winds and currents of the Portuguese possessions in the Atlantic. -
Mar 22, 1480
Sails between Portugal and Iceland
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Mar 22, 1484
Columbus looks for sponsers
Columbus wanted to make a new voyage to fins a western route from Europe to Asia. He asks Portugal and England for help but is refused. -
Mar 22, 1484
Columbus fails to gain the patronage the King of Portugal to enable him search for a trade route to the Indies
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Mar 22, 1485
Columbus moves to Cadiz in Spain
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Mar 22, 1492
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain finally agree to act as patrons to Christopher Columbus and provide money and ships
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Oct 1, 1492
Columbus and his crew make landfall.
They thought they had reached Asia. But he reached the Bahamas then Cuba. -
Mar 23, 1493
Columbus returns to Spain where he sailed along the coasts that would become the Bahamas.
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May 1, 1498
2nd voyage where he left both his brothers in Hispaniola, first European settlement in the New World.
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May 1, 1498
3rd trip for Columbus.
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Jun 1, 1498
Columbus goes back to America
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May 20, 1505
Columbus dies in Spain.