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This was the year that Christopher Columbus was born, however the exact day and month is unsure of.
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Christopher Columbus had set sail from Palos, Spain along with three other ships.
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Columbus and his crew had spotted the Caribbean islands off southeastern North America. They'd landed on an island that they'd called Guanahani, but later on Columbus renamed San Salvador. They had been met by the local Taino Indians, who had mostly been captured by Columbus' men and sold them to slavery. Columbus had thought he'd made it to Asia, and called the area the Indies, which was his reasoning for calling the inhabitants Indians.
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On Columbus' return to Spain in the Nina, the Santa Maria was greatly damaged and the captain of the Pinta sailed off on his own to make an attempt to beat Columbus back.
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Columbus' second expedition with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 men was a trip to find gold and capture more Indians as slaves in the Indies. Columbus had created a base in Hispaniola and sailed around Hispaniola and along the length of southern Cuba.
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Columbus found and named the island of Dominica
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Columbus sailed farther south, to Trinidad and Venezuela along with the mouth of the Orinoco River. Columbus was the first European to set foot on the mainland of America ever since the Viking Leif Ericsson.
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Columbus sailed to Mexico, Honduras and Panama down in Central America and Satiago in Jamaica. Upon Columbus' death, he was buried in eastern Hispaniola (now called the Dominican Republic) and is still there today.
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The year that Columbus had passed away. The exact day and month is unsure of.