Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 2 días · Christopher Columbus leads expedition to the New World, 1492. Although there had been previous trans-oceanic contact, large-scale European colonization of the Americas began with the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The first Spanish settlement in the Americas was La Isabela in northern Hispaniola.
Hace 4 días · 1+. Christopher Columbus earned his place in history when he discovered the Americas. But the legacy he left behind for the world isn’t as glamorous as it seems. How so? Like many European explorers, Christopher Columbus interacted with indigenous people in the middle of his trips.
Hace 4 días · Leif Erikson (flourished 11th century) was a Norse explorer widely held to have been the first European to reach the shores of North America. The 13th- and 14th-century Icelandic accounts of his life show that he was a member of an early voyage to eastern North America, although he may not have been the first to sight its coast.
Hace 1 día · The recorded history of Haiti began in 1492, when the European captain and explorer Christopher Columbus landed on a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.
Hace 2 días · Christopher Columbus, who had also been present to witness the surrender of Granada, presented his plans for an expedition across the Atlantic to the monarchs in the Hall of Ambassadors and on 17 April they signed the contract which set the terms for the expedition which landed in the Americas later that year.
Hace 3 días · Courage and Conviction shows why Christopher Columbus remains not only a man worthy of admiration, but a noble icon of what it means to be a Catholic and an American. Learn more about the holiday, the person and the history.
Hace 3 días · Taino, Arawakan -speaking people who at the time of Christopher Columbus ’s exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola ( Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
