1492
1492.
His ship was wrecked, and he had to wait a year for rescue to come and return him to Spain.
in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Christopher Columbus convinced the King and Queen of Spain to finance his voyage to the New World.
cristopher Columbus died on 20 May 1506 (aged 54) at Valladolid, Crown of Castile, in present-day Spain.
He left from Palos, Spain on August 3 of 1492.
Christopher Columbus landed on San Salvador on October 12, 1492.
Due to the lack of funding and personality issues they were never completed. the government had provided around £17,000 over a ten year period and refused to carry on funding the project.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian man. When Italy would not sponsor his trip across the Atlantic, he went to other countries. Spain agreed to sponsor him so he sailed in name of Spain.
Its celebrated on October 12 of every year.
1492, often considered the final year of the Middle Ages, witnessed the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Columbus' voyage to North America.
In Western history, 1492 is significant for being the first voyage of Columbus and the year that Spain expelled the Jews and Moors (Moslems).