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Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa , Italy. He was a famous explorer , who was known for discovering America and he called it "the new world" https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiDuMOu3rPoAhUJyIUKHbmcDrgQFjABegQIDRAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyewitnesstohistory.com%2Fcolumbus.htm&usg=AOvVaw13-TCkDMhH_NVN83-4urAE
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He got a job in a merchant ship when he was a teenager . When Columbus was on his way to England in 1476. He and his crew were attacked by a ship of French pirates. Though he was hurt, he was able to swim about 6 miles to the shore of Lisbon Portugal, while holding on a large piece of wood from the ship.
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Following a shipwreck off the coast of Portugal in 1470, he swam ashore and settled in that country. Between 1477 and 1482 Columbus made merchant voyages as far away as Iceland and Guinea. But in 1484, his “Enterprise of the Indies” idea fell on deaf ears when he presented it to King John of Portugal.
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Columbus married Felipa Perestrello e Monis, the daughter of a wealthy Portuguese family.
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Diego Columbus, Spanish Diego Colón, (born 1479/80, Porto Santo, Madeira Islands—died February 23, 1526, Montalbán, Spain), eldest son of Christopher Columbus and viceroy of the Indies for 15 years, who spent most of his life in legal battles to secure the Columbus claims.
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Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: Fernando Colón also Hernando, Portuguese: Fernando Colombo, Italian: Fernando Colombo; c. 24 August 1488 – 12 July 1539) was a Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer, the second son of Christopher Columbus.
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Christopher Columbus departed on his first voyage from the port of Palos (near Huelva) in southern Spain, on August 3, 1492, in command of three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
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Columbus hoped to make landfall at Hispaniola (where he had left 40 men the previous January). He sighted land in the West Indies at dawn on Sunday, November 3. The transatlantic passage of only 21 days was remarkably fast. He named the island he saw Dominica.
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On his third voyage, Christopher Columbus became the first European to reach the mainland of South America, when he landed in what is now Venezuela on August 1st, 1498.
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On his third voyage, Christopher Columbus became the first European to reach the mainland of South America, when he landed in what is now Venezuela on August 1st, 1498. https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/columbus-reached-venezuela
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Francisco de Bobadilla, (died June 1502, at sea near Hispaniola), Spanish soldier who arrested Christopher Columbus on Santo Domingo (the island of Hispaniola) after dissensions had arisen between Columbus and several of the Spanish adventurers who served under him.
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On May 11, 1502, Christopher Columbus set out on his fourth and final voyage to the New World with a fleet of four ships. His mission was to explore uncharted areas to the west of the Caribbean in hopes of finding a passage to the Orient.
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Columbus died because of a heart failure , in May 20, 1506 , Valladolid, Spain.
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