Columbus reaches the Americas
1492 · Event
Christopher Columbus's first voyage lands in the Bahamas; opens the Columbian Exchange and four centuries of European colonisation.
On these timelines: Master, Age of Exploration, Pre-Columbian Americas, Spain, USA
Around 1492
- The Reformation (1517)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Martin Luther (1483)