Christopher Columbus

Columbus is born

Oct 31, 1451

Columbus was a teenager when he first set sail

Mar 22, 1465

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

Mar 22, 1477

Christopher Columbus married a noblewoman called Felipa Perestrello Moniz

Mar 22, 1479

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.

Sails between Portugal and Iceland

Mar 22, 1480

Columbus looks for sponsers

Mar 22, 1484

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 moves to Cadiz in Spain

Mar 22, 1485

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

Mar 22, 1492

Columbus and his crew make landfall.

Oct 1, 1492

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

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

May 1, 1498

3rd trip for Columbus.

May 1, 1498

Columbus goes back to America

Jun 1, 1498

Columbus dies in Spain.

May 20, 1505