Death of Columbus
1506 · Event
Columbus dies at Valladolid at about 54, comfortably off but embittered over his lost titles — and still insisting, against the mounting evidence and his own third-voyage letters, that what he found was the edge of Asia. The continents he stumbled into are named the following year, for a man who realised what they were: Amerigo Vespucci.
On these timelines: The Voyages of Columbus, Age of Exploration, Spain, Master
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