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Born in Genoa in Italy in 1451
Father - Domenico Colombo
Mother: Susanna Fontanarossa -
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The family ,Christopher Columbus, Bartolomeo, Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, Mother, and Father, moved to Savona and Christopher Columbus travelled the seas as a pirate, or Privateer, attacking ships belonging to the Moors.
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Christopher Columbus married a noblewoman called Felipa Perestrello Moniz. Felipa gave Christopher Columbus her dead father's charts of the winds and currents of the Portuguese possessions in the Atlantic.
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Christopher Columbus and Felipa have a son called Diego Colon
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Felipa dies of consumption and Christopher Columbus moves to Cadiz in Spain where he opens another shop supplying maps and charts
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Columbus meets Dona Beatriz Enriquez de Arana from Cordova in Spain who he marries. Columbus petitions his plans to the Spanish court but is refused any patronage.
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Christopher and Dona Beatriz Enriquez have a son called Ferdinand better known as Fernando
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A priest called Father Perez intercedes on behalf of Christopher Columbus and pleads with Queen Isabella to fund Columbus emphasising that he would be able to convert heathen races to Christianity.
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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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Christopher Columbus swims ashores when his ship is sunk in a battle off Portugal
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Christopher Columbus arrives at Palos in Spain bringing his news of the New World. Cadiz. The Second voyage of Christopher Columbus consisting of 16 ships carrying about 1500 men including Juan Ponce de Leon. He establishes a Spanish settlement in Haiti and searches for gold.
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Christopher Columbus was the first European to land in South America but news spreads to Spain about problems in the Spanish settlements and Christopher Columbus is heavily criticised for its handling. A visita was ordered to investigate lead by Francisco de Bobadilla.
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Christopher Columbus dies at the Spanish court at Valladolid