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Trinidad and Tobago was rediscovered by Christopher Columbus on July 31st 1948. He did not discover because there were people already living there, the Amerindians.
The Caribbean nation Trinidad and Tobago was first explored by Europeans when Christopher Columbus first found the islands on January 31, 1498 during his third voyage to the New World. The country consists of two islands, which are Trinidad (the main island) and Tobago. Columbus did not actually visit the island of Tobago, but he did sight the island and gave it its name about the time he visited Trinidad. Trinidad was first settled by pre-agricultural Archaic people at least 7,000 years ago, making it the earliest-settled part of the Caribbean.
Most of the lands that Christopher Columbus reached on his four voyages were in the Caribbean Sea. He also visited the coasts of Mexico and Central America.
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While the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus is credited with establishing a Spanish colony on Trinidad in 1498, it remained distinctly different from Tobago until 1889. They became independent of the British in 1962 and became a republic in 1976. However, back during the French Revolution, French planters migrated to the island of Trinidad and established such communities as Carenage, Laventille, Champs Fleurs, and Blanchisseuse.