Columbus: The Adventure Begins (TRIH eps 306-309)
1451–1506 · Resource
A four-part series on Christopher Columbus: his Genoese origins and the ideas behind a westward route to Asia, the 1492 voyage, the second voyage to the Caribbean, and his later voyages, governorship of Hispaniola and contested reputation.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1451
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- The Last Supper (1495)
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)