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Christopher Columbus

By alain sarmiento
  • Oct 31, 1451

    BIRTH

    BIRTH
    christopher columbus was born in Genoa, Italy on the 15th century
  • Period: Oct 31, 1451 to Jan 16, 1470

    CHILHOOD

    he pass all his childhood in Genova, Italy
  • Jun 16, 1470

    MOVE TO SAVONA

    the Columbus family moved to Savona, where Domenico took over a tavern. In the same year, Christopher was on a Genoese ship hired in the service of René of Anjou to support his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Naples.
  • 1473

    FIRST TRIP

    In 1473, Columbus began his apprenticeship as business agent for the important Centurione, Di Negro and Spinola families of Genoa. Later, he allegedly made a trip to Chios, an Aegean island then ruled by Genoa.[
  • 1476

    ADVENTURES

    In May 1476, he took part in an armed convoy sent by Genoa to carry valuable cargo to northern Europe. He docked in Bristol, England
  • Period: 1477 to 1485

    PORTUGAL

    he sailed on a Portuguese ship from Galway to Lisbon, where he found his brother Bartolomeo, and they continued trading for the Centurione family. Columbus based himself in Lisbon from 1477 to 1485
  • 1479

    MARRIAGE

    MARRIAGE
    He married Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, daughter of the Porto Santo governor and Portuguese nobleman of Lombard origin Bartolomeu Perestrello.
  • Period: 1482 to 1485

    HIS WIFE DIED

    Between 1482 and 1485, Columbus traded along the coasts of West Africa, reaching the Portuguese trading post of Elmina at the Guinea coast.Some records report that Filipa died sometime around 1485, while Columbus was away in Castile. He returned to Portugal to settle her estate and take his son Diego with him.[20] He had left Portugal for Castile in 1485
  • 1488

    RETURN TO PORTUGAL

    In 1488, Columbus again appealed to the court of Portugal, resulting in John II again inviting him for an audience. That meeting also proved unsuccessful, in part because not long afterwards Bartolomeu Dias returned to Portugal with news of his successful rounding of the southern tip of Africa
  • Period: 1492 to 1503

    DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

    Between 1492 and 1503, Columbus completed four round-trip voyages between Spain and the Americas, each voyage being sponsored by the Crown of Castile. On his first voyage, he independently discovered the Americas and magnetic declination.[d][42][43] These voyages marked the beginning of the European exploration and colonization of the American continents, and are thus of enormous significance in Western history
  • 1503

    JAMAICA

    For one year Columbus and his men remained stranded on Jamaica. A Spaniard, Diego Méndez, and some natives paddled a canoe to get help from Hispaniola. The governor, Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, detested Columbus and obstructed all efforts to rescue him and his men
  • Jun 29, 1504

    ARRIVED TO SPAIN

    Help finally arrived, no thanks to the governor, on 29 June 1504, and Columbus and his men arrived in Sanlúcar, Spain, on 7 November.
  • May 20, 1506

    DIED

    DIED
    Finally died on Valladolid, Crown of Castile