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He was born in Genoa.
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Held by the Ottoman Turks,after the capture of Constantinople.
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the ship of Christopher Columbus was wrecked in a battle between merchants.
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With Mrs. Felipa Moniz,hija del colonizador de las islas Madeira, Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
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Had only one son, Diego Colón.
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Christopher Columbus offered his project for the first time to King Juan II of Portugal.
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Madeira Fernao Domingues do Arco was named captain of a land he claimed to have discovered to the west, and Ferdinand van Olmen obtained permission to sail from the Azores to the west to explore and conquer.
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Colón frequented the monastery of the Cartuja in Seville.
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As agent of the house Centurione de Madeira.
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He was received, thanks to the courage of Hernando de Talavera, by Queen Isabel, to whom he laid out his plans.
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Columbus arrived at the royal camp of Santa Fe de Granada. His project was submitted to a new board, convened by the queen, but again rejected.
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Colon earned his living occasionally by making nautical charts. The houses also recounts that, sailing along Cuba was drawing a map of the coast.
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He is famous for having made the discovery of America.
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On the first trip sailed from the port of Palos and passing through the Canary Islands
On the second voyage he departed from Cádiz, coming out of iron and coming to Guadalupe Island
On the third voyage he sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, making a stopover in Cape Verde
On the fourth voyage, he left Sevilla and arrived in Spain -
One day before his death in Valladolid, Christopher Columbus wrote his will before Pedro de Inoxedo, the Clerk of the Chamber of the Catholic Monarchs. He left his son Diego Colón, his brother Bartolomé Colón and Juan de Porras, treasurer of Biscay, as Testamentary and Fulfillers of his last will.
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Cristóbal Colon died in Valladolid, presumably due to complications arising from a drop or arthritis suffered for years.
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to the Indiesdenomination of the American continent until the publication of Martin Waldseemüller's Planisphere.
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It was initially buried in the convent of San Francisco in Valladolid and, subsequently, its remains were transferred to the chapel of Santa Ana in the monastery of La Cartuja in Sevilla
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On the wish of his son Diego Colón, he arranged in his will that both his remains and his father's were moved and buried in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo.
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María de Toledo moved the remains as the Virreina asked the monks of the monastery Carthusian de Santa María de la Cuevas de Sevilla to deliver the remains of both admirals
