The Nao Santa Maria is a "faithful, full-scale historical reproduction" of the ship used by Christopher Columbus on in his first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, according to the Nao ...

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

As for Columbus's ethnicity, "We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son," explained Lorente in the program.

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, ...

The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day took place in October 1792 by the Columbian Order of New York, also known as Tammany Hall, to commemorate the 300 th anniversary of the Admiral’s ...

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. (Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images) ...

The first voyage: Christopher Columbus bidding farewell to the queen of Spain on his departure for the New World, 1492. Universal Images Group via Getty Images They believe that Columbus either ...

Updated at 1:15 p.m. ET on October 14, 2024 More than 530 years after Christopher Columbus led an expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, many Americans still see the navigator as a ...

Certainly, I was taught the cheerful folklore about the voyage of the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria as a kid, and when I first encountered the darker side of Columbus in Howard Zinn’s ...

An original copy of a 15th-century Christopher Columbus letter translated from Spanish into Latin Christie's An original copy of a letter from Christopher Columbus detailing his first voyage to ...

The last time Christie’s sold a copy of a famed 15th-century pamphlet announcing Christopher Columbus’s first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was in 1992, and it did not end well.