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Cristoforo Colombo is born in Genoa, Italy.
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Columbus began to sail as a teenager.
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Began working as a sailor and visited the island of Khios, returning to Italy a year later financially independent.
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Christopher Columbus swims to shore when his ship is sunk in a battle off Portugal.
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Joined his brother Bartolomeo in Lisbon to work as a cartographer.
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Christopher Columbus married a wealthy Portuguese called Felipa Perestrello Moniz.
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Christopher Columbus fails to gain the patronage from King John II of Portugal to enable him to search for a trade route to the Indies.
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Felipa dies of consumption and Christopher Columbus moves to Cadiz, 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.
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Columbus submits his plans to King Henry VII of England and King Charles VIII of France but his proposals were declined.
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Columbus firmly asked for patronage from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and, after at least two rejections, his plans were approved.
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Columbus sets sail with his three ships; the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa Maria.
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Columbus's crew see land after a little over two months. The island is named San Salvador and Columbus believes that he has reached the passage to India and China.
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Columbus and his crew arrive in Hispaniola and established a settlement named La Navidad.
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Columbus starts the return journey to Spain.
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Columbus returned to the Americas in a larger expedition looking for valuables.
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Columbus leaves from Seville, Spain, with six ships the Americas. He visits South America for the first time.
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Columbus was still looking to land in Asia. He reaches Central America and explores made lands of the region.
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Christopher Columbus dies two years after his return to Spain.
