Anvika rao biography of christopher columbus

c. 1451-1506

Who Was Christopher Columbus?

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator.

In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña ships alongside, hoping to find a new route to Asia. Instead, he and his crew landed on an island in present-day Bahamas—claiming it for Spain and mistakenly “discovering” the Americas.

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Christopher Columbus, the explorer who changed the course of the world, said, 'You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to leave the shore.

I, Benedict Paul C, son of Thiru Christopher Columbus, born on 7th January (District of Birth: Madurai), residing at No. F3, A, Block.

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Although he was born in the Low Countries (Mons, in modern Belgium), we know for sure that when he was just twelve years old, Orlando di Lasso.

Between 1493 and 1504, he made three more voyages to the Caribbean and South America, believing until his death that he had found a shorter route to Asia. Columbus has been credited—and blamed—for opening up the Americas to European colonization.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Cristoforo Colombo
BORN: c.

1451
DIED: May 20, 1506
BIRTHPLACE: Genoa, Italy
SPOUSE: Filipa Perestrelo (c. 1479-1484)
CHILDREN: Diego and Fernando

Where Was Columbus Born?

Christopher Columbus, whose real name was Cristoforo Colombo, was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, part of what is now