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| Christopher Colombus Artist: Sebastiano del Piombo - Oil on Canvas Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art Sebastiano del Piombo / Public domain Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ |
Christopher Colombus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, making a way for European exploration and colonisation of the Americas (South and North America). Columbus was born in 1451, Genoa, Italy and died on 20 May 1506. He was buried in 1898 at Seville Cathedral.
Fun Facts
- Christopher Columbus discovered and set foot on the Americas on 12 October 1492. Americans get a day off work on 10 October to celebrate Colombus Day. It has been a national holiday in the United States since 1937.
- Colombus changed the world when he introduced greedy, land-hungry Europeans to America. He did not only found the United States, Canada and Mexico, he also shaped many other Caribbean and South American nations.
- Colombus sailed search in a route of Cathay (China) and India, bringing back gold and spices that were highly wanted in Europe.
- Christopher Colombus made four voyages; 1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04, he travelled mainly to the Caribbean, including the Bahamas, Santo Domingo, Cuba and Jamaica.
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