* In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in The Bahamas.

* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

* 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

* 1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.

Christopher Columbus, as a hero and symbol, is an important figure in the pantheon of American myth.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.

Christopher Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands on May 10, 1503 and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

The known history of Cuba predates Christopher Columbus ' landing on the island during his first voyage of discovery on 28 October 1492.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

Christopher Columbus ( Italian: Cristoforo Colombo ; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón ; before 31 October 145120 May 1506 ) was an explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.

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The first Europeans arrived in the expeditions of Christopher Columbus, shortly before 1500.

On April 30, 1494, Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, arrived and spent the night.

Honduras was first sighted by Europeans when Christopher Columbus arrived at the Bay Islands on 30 July 1502 on his fourth voyage.

When Christopher Columbus arrived in the region, hunting was already an established trade, although this is less common today.

Nicaragua was first discovered by Europeans when Christopher Columbus arrived from Honduras and explored the eastern coast on his fourth voyage in 1502.

The first contact with Europeans, occurred when Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage of exploration, arrived with his fleet of three small ships – the 100-ton Santa María and two caravels, El Correo and La Vaquenos – on 31 July 1498.

" It is by no means clear, in any case ," writes Christopher Green, " to what extent these other Cubists depended on Picasso and Braque for their development of such techniques as faceting, ‘ passage ’ and multiple perspective ; they could well have arrived at such practices with little knowledge of ‘ true ’ Cubism in its early stages, guided above all by their own understanding of Cézanne.

A few days later Wren's mother-in-law, Lady Coghill, arrived to take the infant Christopher back with her to Oxfordshire to raise.

They were the natives whom Christopher Columbus encountered when he first arrived in the Americas in 1492.

It is now believed that the first tribe encountered by Christopher Columbus, when he arrived on the island he called Santa María de la Concepción ( known as Mamana by the Lucayan Indians and now called Rum Cay off the Bahamas ), were Lucayan-Arawak Indians.

Cole and Campbell receive a tip that leads them to Christopher Maynard ( Stephen Tobolowsky ), who admits that he committed the Family Man murders that happened before Cole arrived in Los Angeles.

In September 927 Peter arrived before Constantinople and married Maria ( renamed Eirene, " Peace "), the daughter of his eldest son and co-emperor Christopher, and thus Romanos ' granddaughter.

The Ottawa tribe of Native Americans were the prevalent occupants of the region before Europeans arrived in North America following the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus.

Scholars such as Christopher Snyder believe that during the 5th and 6th centuries — approximately from 410 AD when Roman legions withdrew, to 597 AD when St. Augustine of Canterbury arrived — southern Britain preserved a sub-Roman society that was able to survive the attacks from the Anglo-Saxons and even use a vernacular Latin for an active culture.

According to legend the gay aura of the town arose when Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden arrived dressed as Dionysus and Ganymede, carried aloft on a gilded litter by a group of singing followers.

Accompanied by Christopher Gist, Washington arrived at the Forks of the Ohio on November 25, 1753.

Christopher Columbus arrived to the island in November 1493, but the indelible mark of Spanish culture wasn't felt until Juan Ponce de León invaded the island in 1508 and established a colony near the current capital of San Juan.

On November 2, the Iranian parliament finally set forth formal conditions for the hostages ' release and eight days later Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Algiers with the first U. S. reply setting off a slow motion diplomatic shuffle between Washington, Algiers and Tehran.

They arrived in Rome by year ’ s end where he met brother-in-law Frederik Christopher Krohn, sculptor and medallionist, and many other Danish artists.

In the 19th century, a few people used such anecdotes to speculate that the Mandan were, in part, descended from lost European settlers who had arrived at North America before 1492, or the voyage of Christopher Columbus.

Her father, Charles Christopher St. Hill, was born in British Guiana and arrived in the United States via Antilla, Cuba, on April 10, 1923, aboard the S. S. Munamar in New York City.

Until written accounts were found, Cat Island was thought to be Guanahani or San Salvador, the first island Christopher Columbus arrived at in the Americas.

Christopher Columbus is said to have moored his ship in the river when he first arrived in Santo Domingo.