Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids: With 21 Activities
Time Line Early Years 1451 Columbus is born in Genoa Italy By the age of 14 he takes to the sea 1476 Columbus swims ashore after his ship is sunk in a battle with a Franco Portuguese war fleet off Portugal 1480 Eldest son Diego is born 1484 Columbus conceives of the Enterprise of the Indies fails to get backing from King João I of Portugal 1488 Second son Fernando is born 1490 The king and queen of Spain refuse to spon sor the Enterprise of the Indies 1492 Moors driven from Spain in January First Voyage to the Americas 1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agree to sponsor Columbus Columbus departs from Palos Spain on August 3 arrives in the West Indies on October
flagship Santa Maria sinks of Hispaniola on December 24 Columbus founds La Navidad on December 26 1493 Columbus departs Hispaniola for Spain on January 1 arrives at Lisbon Portugal on March 3 Second Voyage to the Americas 1493 Grand fleet of 17 ships departs Cadiz on Sep tember 25 Columbus returns to La Navidad on November 28 to find the settlement destroyed and all Spaniards dead 1494 Columbus arrives at Cuba on April 30 reaches Jamaica on May 5 open warfare breaks out between Spaniards and Indians 1495 In March Columbus wins battle on the broad fertile valley known as the Vega Real 1496 Columbus departs from Hispaniola for Spain reaches the coast of Portugal on June 8 Christopher Columbus sighting the New World Library of Congress LC USZ62 5339
Third Voyage to the Americas 1498 Columbus departs from Sanlúcar Spain with six ships on May 30 reaches Trinidad on July 31 arrives at new city of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola on August 19 Columbus resumes his role as governor 1499 Vasco da Gama sailing on behalf of Portugal rounds the southern tip of Africa and reaches India 1500 Columbus arrested in Santo Domingo and sent back to Spain in chains in early October received unchained by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on December 17 Fourth Voyage to the Americas 1502 Columbus leaves from Cadiz Spain with four ships on May 11 West Indies hurricane on June 30 Columbus arrives at the Mos quito Coast Nicaragua on July 30 1503 Sinking ships beached and abandoned at Jamaica on June 25 Diego Méndez and Bar tolomeo Fieschi leave for Hispaniola in native canoes on July 17 1504 On June 29 crew rescued from Jamaica after more than a year on the island Columbus returns to Spain on November 11 1506 Columbus dies at Valladolid Spain on May
20 Christopher Columbus Admiral of the Ocean Sea Thinkstock 134100738 collection iStockphoto Later Explorations 1507 Waldseemüller Map published showing a Western Hemisphere and the name Ameri Ca 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida thus becoming the first European to set foot on what is now the United States Vasco Nunez de Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean by cross ing the Isthmus of Panama 1519 Ferdinand Magellan's expedition to voyage around the world begins 1521 Hernando Cortés subdues Aztec Empire HK LONG E BEST
