* 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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His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

The year before, Nicholas had unchivalrously taken Christopher captive as he bathed before a tournament in Munich.

Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".

* Second Sight ( 1991 ) Released from a Chinese prison, Christopher meets a daughter he did not know he had

Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.

They had three children: the filmmaker and screenwriter Christopher Trumbo, who became an expert on the Hollywood blacklist ; Melissa, known as Mitzi, a photographer ; and Nikola Trumbo, a psychotherapist.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

Biographer Christopher Sandford writes, " Over the years, most British rockers had tried, one way or another, to become black-by-extension.

Christopher Byers had lacerations to various parts of his body, and mutilation of his scrotum and penis.

The three victims, Stevie Edward Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, were in the second grade at Weaver Elementary School ; each had achieved the rank of " Wolf " in the local Cub Scout pack ; and they were best friends.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

The switch from the free software movement to the open source movement has had negative effects on the progression of community, according to Christopher Kelty who dedicates a scholarly chapter to the free software movements in " Theorizing Media and Practice ".

The dish called cassoulet has its roots in the New World discovery of haricot beans, which are central to the dish's creation, but had not existed outside of the New World until its exploration by Christopher Columbus.

One example of this was when Media Watch reported that Dave " Sluggo " Richardson had made a highly misleading report on Christopher Skase for Today Tonight.

They had three children, Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean and Leslie Anne.

At a later period he had sittings with Margrave Christopher of Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their children, and the picture containing these portraits is still in the gallery at Karlsruhe.

In 1984, while promoting the film This Is Spinal Tap, Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean had a performance on Saturday Night Live.

They married in 1956 and had two children, Christopher John Hall ( TV producer ) in 1957 and Jennifer Caron Hall, a writer, painter and actress, in 1958.

He and Ebeling had a son, Christopher ( b. 1952 ), and three daughters: Courtenay ( b. 1954 ), Cynthia ( b. 1956 ) and Claudia ( b. 1958 ).

In 1668, Wilkins proposed using Christopher Wren's suggestion of a pendulum with a half-period of one second to measure a standard length that Christiaan Huygens had observed to be 38 Rhineland or English inches ( 997mm ) in length.

Cambridge historian Christopher Andrews claimed that it was later discovered that the FSLN had, in fact, been actively suppressing right-wing opposition parties while leaving moderate parties alone, with Ortega claiming that the moderates " presented no danger and served as a convenient facade to the outside world ".