Hoping to find a westward route to India, Christopher Columbus on this day in 1492 set sail on his first transatlantic voyage ...

Christopher Columbus arrived in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s voyage marked the beginning of sustained European contact with the Americas. Over the next century, Spanish expeditions established settlements, claimed territories, ...

A full-scale replica of a ship that changed the course of history will pay a visit to a Sussex port next month. The Nao Santa María, a replica of the flagship of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to ...