Christopher Columbus's Explorations Timeline

Christopher Columbus

When Christopher Columbus reached the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, he had no idea that his expedition would change the course of history. The European awareness of Americas began at the end of his voyage.

Many historians believed that July 31, 1898 was another momentous moment. The Italian navigator arrived in the island of Trinidad, and then explored the Gulf of Paria, a body of water separating the isle from Venezuela. He touched the mainland at the Paria Peninsula many days later, dispelling any doubts that he had never been to the mainland. The plan was to sail to the Far East, inspired by Marco Polo's account of his visit to Genghis Khan's kingdom. During Pax Mongolica, the powers in Europe have access to the kingdoms in Asia and the Middle East via the Silk Road. But the fall of Constantinopole to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 made the passage dangerous. So they thought of traveling by sea.

When Columbus made it to present-day Carribean, he surmised that his ships weren't far from China. The native of Genoa had no idea that it was America, and he wasn't the first European to disover the continent. Three expeditions later, he was physically and mentally exhausting. Columbus saw his accomplishments in the light of spreading Christian religion, but what he did was much more. He linked the Old World and New World.

A list of events is the only way to appreciate his ambition and effort. So here how his voyages turned out:

August 3, 1492: Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, Spain with three ships (Niña, Pinta, and the Santa Maria).

September 6, 1492: Columbus and his crew left San Sebastián de La Gomera, a municipality in the Canary Islands.

October 12, 1492: After five weeks of voyage across the ocean, Columbus arrived in San Salvador, Bahamas.

October 28, 1492: Columbus landed on the northeast coast of Cuba.

December 5, 1492: Columbus explored the northern part of Hispaniola, the present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic.

March 15, 1493: Columbus received a hero's welcome in Barcelona. He left 39 men in La Navidad, Haiti.

September 24, 1493: Columbus set sail again.

November 3, 1493: Columbus sighted the island of Dominica.

November 10, 1493: Columbus reached Guadeloupe.

November 19, 1493: Columbus arrived in San Juan Bautista, the present-day Puerto Rico.

May 5, 1494. Columbus and his men set foot in Jamaica.

May 30, 1498: Columbus left with six ships in Sanlúcar, Spain.

July 31, 1498: The ships landed on the southern coast of Trinidad.

August 4, 1498: Columbus explored the Gulf of Paria, touching the mainland of South America several days later.

May 11, 1502: Columbus, with his brother Bartolomeo and son Fernando, left Cadiz with four ships.

June 15, 1502: The ships were off the island of Martinique.

July 30, 1502: Columbus reached Guanaha, an isle off Honduras.

August 14, 1502: Columbus and his crew set foot in Trujillo, Honduras, and then sailed along the coasts of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

October 16, 1502: Columbus was in Almirante Bay in Panama.

May 10, 1503: Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands.

November 7, 1504: After one year of being stranded in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, Columbus and his men reached Sanlúcar.

 

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