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Christopher Columbus was born in the year 1451, in Genoa, Italy. His parents were, Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa.
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Columbus and his family moved to Savona and traveled the seas as a pirate, attacking ships belonging to the Moors. In a battle off the coast of Portugal, his ship sinks but Columbus survives.
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Christopher Columbus joined his brother Bartholomew in Lisbon, Portugal to work as a cartographer
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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
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Christopher Columbus fails to gain the patronage the King of Portugal to enable him search for a trade route to the Indies
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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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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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Columbus 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
Martin Alonso Pinzon commanded the Pinta and his brother, Vicente Yanez Pinzon commanded the Nina. The three ships carried 120 men each. -
Land seen by one of the Pinta's crew and they land on Watling's Island in the Bahamas, West Indies. The discoverers name the island San Salvador and Columbus believes that he has reached the passage to India and China. The fleet reaches Cuba
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The Santa Maria sinks off the cost of Hispaniola but Christopher Columbus establishes the first Spanish settlement in the New World
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Columbus dies at the spanish court at Valladolid. He ended up passing from congestive heart failure.
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