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  He was born somewhere between August and October of 1451.
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  He goes to find gold in 1492
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  He was a passenger on a boat to the New World then and wrote a book claiming he had discovered it
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  Sometime during the 1800s, the king of Spain discovers his logbooks and gives him credit