Christopher Columbus

Christopher was born

Oct 31, 1451

Christopher Columbus was born.
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, the son of a wool merchant called Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a wool merchant.

Christopher the sailor

Dec 12, 1476

n 1470, at the age of 19, he played a prominent role on a Genoese sailing ship that had the goal of conquering Naples. When His family moved to Savona and Christopher Columbus travelled the seas as a pirate, or Privateer, attacking ships belonging to the Moors.Then Christopher Columbus swims ashores when his ship is sunk in a battle off Portugal and after that Christopher Columbus joined his brother Bartholomew in Lisbon to work as a cartographer

Columbus gets married

Dec 12, 1479

Christopher Columbus married a noblewoman called Felipa Perestrello Moniz.
Her father had been explorer called Bartolomeu Perestrello who had been involved with the discovery of the Madeira Islands.
Felipa gave Christopher Columbus her dead father's charts of the winds and currents of the Portuguese possessions in the Atlantic.
Christopher Columbus and Felipa have a son called Diego Colon

Columbus's voyages

Dec 12, 1492

Christopher makes four voyages in his lifetime. First he leaves He leaves Palos, Spain in search of the Indies on his ship which is called the Santa Maria. His son, Fernando accompanied Columbus. The other two ships were called the Pinta and the Nina
Second consists 16 ships and seacrh for gold. The Third voyage of Christopher Columbus from Seville, Spain, with six ships.
Fourth and final voyage of Christopher Columbus leaves from Cadiz, Spain, with four ships

Christopher columbus dies

Dec 12, 2016

7th November: Christopher Columbus returns to Spain
May 20: Christopher Columbus dies at the Spanish court at Valladolid