2006-06-30 17:34:44 · 16 answers · asked by Ultimate Trip 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
oct. 12, 1492
2006-06-30 17:39:23 · answer #1 · answered by askandanswer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to "To America and Around the World -- Columbus/Magellan The Logs of Christopher Columbus" it's still in debate. However, it says August 1, 1498. And Amerigo Vespuci landed a year before that. But I'm going with what I learned in History class in grade school - October 12, 1492. On the Gregorian Calendar - it was a Wednesday, on the Global Calendar, it was a Monday.
2006-07-01 00:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by akroncke71 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Columbus first arrived in the Caribbean Islands on October 12, 1492, as convential history tells us (this was the first of four trips for Columbus). But he did not "discover" this part of the world, as about 4 million original inhabitants were living on the islands at the time Columbus arrived.
Leif Eriksson is believed to be the first European to arrive on the North American continent with a contigent of other Greenlanders in about 985 or 986, but the Norsemen stayed for only two years at most (in L'Anse-aux-Meadows in current Newfoundland).
The first people who "discovered" the Americas were tribes from Asia who crossed over the Bering land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, about 40,000 years ago.
2006-07-01 11:05:26 · answer #3 · answered by Nirvanagurl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he didnt "discover" America. Quite a few other explorers like Magellan ran into America before Christopher Columbus did. He just got all the credit. And I dont understand why everyone seems to thik that. But he "discovered" it within the year of 1492. I dont believe there is an actual date. He just claimed Latin America for the Spainish.
2006-07-01 02:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by Becca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Columbus never discovered America the first Spanish person was Juan Ponce DE Leon who landed in Florida in 1513
2006-07-01 01:14:58 · answer #5 · answered by ryan s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
October 12, 1492
2006-07-03 11:56:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As has been said, Columbus did not discover America. He landed at islands in the Carribean.
The first people to land in North America were Vikings (Leif Erikson).....it is even surmised that the ancient Phoenicians landed somewhere in the western hemisphere, though I think there is very little to no actual evidence of that.
2006-07-01 02:40:58 · answer #7 · answered by NateTrain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
October 12, 1492. He left Spain on August 3, 1492--also a Friday.
2006-07-01 00:42:37 · answer #8 · answered by Nobody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 October 1492
2006-07-01 14:23:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Vikings "discovered" America (well, it didn`t have a name then...duh) long before Columbus set foot on it
2006-07-02 01:24:46 · answer #10 · answered by Roxie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we believe October 12, 1492, it was a Friday
2006-07-01 00:42:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋