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Christopher Columbus

By 7th grade tekkies
  • Columbus is born
    Oct 31, 1451

    Columbus is born

  • Columbus was a teenager when he first set sail
    Mar 22, 1465

    Columbus was a teenager when he first set sail

  • Columbus joins his brother Bartholomew in Lisbon to work as a cartographer
    Mar 22, 1477

    Columbus joins his brother Bartholomew in Lisbon to work as a cartographer

  • Christopher Columbus married a noblewoman called Felipa Perestrello Moniz
    Mar 22, 1479

    Christopher Columbus married a noblewoman called Felipa Perestrello Moniz

    Her father had been explorer called Bartolomeu Perestrello.
    Felipa gave Christopher Columbus her dead father's charts of the winds and currents of the Portuguese possessions in the Atlantic.
  • Mar 22, 1480

    Sails between Portugal and Iceland

  • Columbus looks for sponsers
    Mar 22, 1484

    Columbus looks for sponsers

    Columbus wanted to make a new voyage to fins a western route from Europe to Asia. He asks Portugal and England for help but is refused.
  • Columbus fails to gain the patronage the King of Portugal to enable him search for a trade route to the Indies
    Mar 22, 1484

    Columbus fails to gain the patronage the King of Portugal to enable him search for a trade route to the Indies

  • Columbus moves to Cadiz in Spain
    Mar 22, 1485

    Columbus moves to Cadiz in Spain

  • King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain finally agree to act as patrons to Christopher Columbus and provide money and ships
    Mar 22, 1492

    King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain finally agree to act as patrons to Christopher Columbus and provide money and ships

  • Oct 1, 1492

    Columbus and his crew make landfall.

    They thought they had reached Asia. But he reached the Bahamas then Cuba.
  • Columbus returns to Spain where he sailed along the coasts that would become the Bahamas.
    Mar 23, 1493

    Columbus returns to Spain where he sailed along the coasts that would become the Bahamas.

  • 2nd voyage where he left both his brothers in Hispaniola, first European settlement in the New World.
    May 1, 1498

    2nd voyage where he left both his brothers in Hispaniola, first European settlement in the New World.

  • 3rd trip for Columbus.
    May 1, 1498

    3rd trip for Columbus.

  • Columbus goes back to America
    Jun 1, 1498

    Columbus goes back to America

  • May 20, 1505

    Columbus dies in Spain.