Christopher Columbus(1451-1506),Italiannavigatorand explorerin the service ofSpain,the discovererof America (12.X.1492).Columbusthought thatPłw.Iberyjskilies onthe counterand not toofar fromEast Asia, andthe convictionof the possibility offinding asea route toIndia inthe westhad strengthened hislist andmapP.Toscanellego;projecttripspresentedin 1484at the court ofPortugal, butwas not supported, afterlong effortsin Spain, Spanish courtin 1492concluded anagreementwithColumbuscalled "Capitulatio"by commissioninghim in charge ofthe expedition.In the firstexpeditiondiscovered theSargasso Sea, the island ofGuanahani,thenCuba andHaiti.In the secondexpedition, he discoveredDominica,Jamaica.In the thirdexpeditionreached1 VIII 1498tothe mainlandof South America.IVexpeditioncircumnavigatedthe easterncoast ofthe peninsula.Yucatanand Central America, reaching theIsthmus of Panama.Before theexpeditionColumbuswas grantedthe hereditarytitle of GrandAdmiral andViceroydiscovered countries,as a result ofthe intrigueshe diedin obscurityand neglect, two years afterhis returnfrom the lastexpedition.Columbus wasconvincedby the endof life thatcame toEast Asia.
Christopher Columbus(1451-1506),Italiannavigatorand explorerin the service ofSpain,the discovererof America (12.X.1492).Columbusthought thatPłw.Iberyjskilies onthe counterand not toofar fromEast Asia, andthe convictionof the possibility offinding asea route toIndia inthe westhad strengthened hislist andmapP.Toscanellego;projecttripspresentedin 1484at the court ofPortugal, butwas not supported, afterlong effortsin Spain, Spanish courtin 1492concluded anagreementwithColumbuscalled "Capitulatio"by commissioninghim in charge ofthe expedition.In the firstexpeditiondiscovered theSargasso Sea, the island ofGuanahani,thenCuba andHaiti.In the secondexpedition, he discoveredDominica,Jamaica.In the thirdexpeditionreached1 VIII 1498tothe mainlandof South America.IVexpeditioncircumnavigatedthe easterncoast ofthe peninsula.Yucatanand Central America, reaching theIsthmus of Panama.Before theexpeditionColumbuswas grantedthe hereditarytitle of GrandAdmiral andViceroydiscovered countries,as a result ofthe intrigueshe diedin obscurityand neglect, two years afterhis returnfrom the lastexpedition.Columbus wasconvincedby the endof life thatcame toEast Asia.