Columbus reaches the Bahamas
1492
Columbus lands in the Caribbean, beginning lasting contact between Europe and the Americas.
- Type
- Event
- Date
- 1492
- Place
- The Bahamas
Who was alive during Columbus reaches the Bahamas
- Donato Bramante 1444–1514, architect
- Lorenzo de' Medici 1449–1492, ruler
- Bartolomeu Dias c. 1450–1500, explorer
- Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450–1516, painter
- John Cabot c. 1450–c. 1500, explorer
- Christopher Columbus c. 1451–1506, explorer
- Isabella I of Castile 1451–1504, queen
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, polymath
- Amerigo Vespucci 1454–1512, explorer
- Jakob Fugger 1459–1525, banker
- Erasmus 1466–1536, humanist
- Guru Nanak 1469–1539, religious leader
- Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528, artist
- Juan Ponce de León 1474–1521, explorer
- Cesare Borgia 1475–1507, nobleman
- Francisco Pizarro c. 1478–1541, conquistador
- Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478–1546, admiral
- Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480–1521, explorer
- Lucrezia Borgia 1480–1519, noblewoman
- Hernán Cortés 1485–1547, conquistador
- Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486–1526, explorer
- Henry VIII 1491–1547, king
- Ignatius of Loyola 1491–1556, priest
- Jacques Cartier 1491–1557, explorer