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 … ...

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.

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 ...

Christopher Columbus may not have discovered America, but his voyages helped ignite the Age of Exploration.

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 ...

Day 12: Columbus sighted some tropic birds and avowed he must be close to some islands since ‘these birds never go more than 20 leagues from land.’ He didn’t know what I know, tha… ...

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.

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.