Christopher Columbus Portrait

Christopher Columbus Portrait

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Christopher Columbus

Explorer (c. 1451–1506)

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to India. By 1504, he made a total of four voyages to the Caribbean and South America and has been credited for opening up the Americas to European colonization.

Columbus first went to sea as a teenager, participating in several trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. One such voyage to the island of Khios (in modern day Greece) brought him the closest he would come to Asia. His first voyage into the Atlantic Ocean in 1476 nearly cost him his life as the commercial fleet he was sailing with was attacked by French war vessels. He made his way to Lisbon, Portugal, where he eventually settled and married Felipa Perestrello. The couple had one son, Diego, around 1480. His wife died soon after, and Columbus moved to Spain. He had a second son, Fernando, in 1488 with Beatriz Enriquez de Arana.