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Giovanni Griego, alias Christopher Columbus

1485 Giovanni Griego of the family of Colombo Junior is a free lance pirate employed by the king of Portugal. On August 22, he takes part in a piratical attack on Venetian ships off the coast of Portugal. He narrowly escapes death by grabbing an oar and swimming to shore. With the stolen loot he marries a Portuguese lady of royal birth and moves to the island of Madeira near the Canary Islands.

1486 After surviving a horrific hurricane that blew their ship all the way to the island of Santo Domingo in the New World, Alonso Sánchez the pilot and 4 Spanish sailors are shipwrecked on the island of Madeira . . . and they all die in the house of Columbus....He steals the maps and charts showing the location of the New World....Columbus approaches the king of Portugal in order to finance his voyage of "discovery" but the king refuses to meet his demands.

1487 Columbus arrives in Spain and changes his name to Christopher or "Christ bearer." He presents his great idea for the "discovery" of new islands to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

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