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Colombus set sail from palos de la frontera, Huelva with three ships: la Santa Maria, la pinta and la niña -
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The expedition stopped in the canary islands for final provisions and repairs -
Colombus's expedition laves the canary islands -
The sailos became impatient and were about to munity againist colombus -
Land was spotted by a sailor named Rodrigo the triana aboard the pinta. They reached the island of guanahani (whitch colombus named san Salvador) in the Bahamas. -
Colombus arrived in Cuba, which he belived to be the mainland of Asia. He named it juana -
The expedition reached the island of hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti), where they encountered the indigenous taino people -
Colombus established the settlement of la Navidad in hispaniola, build whit the remains of the ship la Santa Maria -
La niña and la pinta set sail back to spain, leaving about 40 crew members behaind due to the lack of space -
La niña arrived in palos de la frontera, followed shortly by la pinta (which previusly had stop in bayona), bringing news of their discoveries.