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, ...

On Oct. 28, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World. In 1636, Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Mass. In 1776, the Battle of White Plains was fought ...

Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first European to discover North America. ... Christopher Columbus’s voyage in 1492 wasn’t his only trip to North America.

"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," is a popular rhyme that helps us remember the story of Christopher Columbus. Because we recently celebrated Columbus Day, here's the rest of his story.

On Oct. 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on San Salvador, an island in the present-day Bahamas. Of the native Arawaks he encountered there, Columbus wrote in his diary, “They were well ...

On Aug. 3, 1492, Columbus, flying under the Spanish flag, set out from Palos de la Frontera , Spain with three ships on what arguably may be the most famous sea crossing ever.

Columbus’ four voyages (1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502) across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain brought him to the Caribbean Islands, South America and Central America. He never set foot in North ...

Ever since the quincentennial of Columbus’s first voyage to the New World in 1492, denunciations of the Italian navigator as a brutal conqueror and bloody enslaver had been growing louder and ...