Christopher Columbus
1451–1506 · Person
Genoese navigator whose 1492 Atlantic crossing for Castile opened the Americas to European conquest, colonisation and exchange.
On these timelines: Age of Exploration, People, Spain, Master, Italy (post-476 CE)
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- Columbian Exchange (1492)
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- Columbian Exchange begins (1492)
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- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Columbian Exchange ends (1700)
Around 1451
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- The Last Supper (1495)
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)
- Mehmed II (1432)