no, Amerigo Vespucci beat him there.
Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer.
First of all it was 1492, and it was Christapher Columbus. Columbus was European, and traveled what was known of the world at that time with his uncle. Also Columbus was Italian.
He named it San Salvidor, meaning Holy Savior.
The Christopher Columbus came first in 1492.
Americans are so ignorant, just like you, first of all their is only one America from Alaska to the south pole, you stole the name, but all of us who are born-ed in this continent are Americans, Columbus did not arrive in or at America, since the continent was named after he died, Americo Vespucci and Italian Geographer new that this land mass was different from the rest of the known world, and Spain and Portugal claimed it in equal half's. the year 12th of october 1492, the place he left puerto de palos España, the place he disembarked was what we know now as Haiti, not what you idiots think is America.
Columbus NEVER landed in North America. He didn't know it existed. He landed in the Bahamas. In the late 1700's the Italian American's began the story that Columbus landed in America so they could get a special day and parade like the Irish American's for St. Patrick's day. Columbus was not Italian, but Spanish. This is how history is changed.
Columbus first came to America in 1492.
No Columbus discovered America first.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus discovered America on Thursday, October 11
He didn't land in North America, but on an island. He lived in Spain most of his life.
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