In 1486, Columbus went to the Spanish monarchy of Queen Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their focus was on a war with the Muslims, and their nautical experts were skeptical, so they, ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

We know Columbus—or perhaps a sailor on the Pinta named Rodrigo de Triana—first spotted land on October 12. But what we don't know is where exactly they were. Not that there's anything wrong ...

The ship was part of the 1939 Harvard Columbus Expedition, a five-month voyage across the Atlantic. On board were a hodgepodge of academics, sailors, Harvard affiliates, and their wives.

As described in Maria Rosa Monacal’s 2002 book, “The Ornament of the World,” Torres left with Columbus’s first voyage on August 3, 1492, a day after the Spanish Edict of Expulsion ordered ...

The expulsion of Jews from Spain took place in 1492, the same year as Columbus' famed first voyage. The tomb of Christopher Columbus in Seville Cathedral on June 25, 2016.

1920 – Columbus Day begins being celebrated annually. October 12, 1937 – First federal observance of Columbus Day, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1971 – Columbus Day becomes a legal ...

Who was this mysterious Galway man who sailed with Columbus on his first voyage to the west in 1492? In a box in the archives of the National University of Ireland Galway, there is a bundle of ...

1920 – Columbus Day begins being celebrated annually. October 12, 1937 – First federal observance of Columbus Day, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1971 – Columbus Day becomes a legal ...

1920 – Columbus Day begins being celebrated annually. October 12, 1937 – First federal observance of Columbus Day, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1971 – Columbus Day becomes a legal ...

1920 – Columbus Day begins being celebrated annually. October 12, 1937 – First federal observance of Columbus Day, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1971 – Columbus Day becomes a legal ...