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3 days ago · The return of Christopher Columbus; his audience before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Just three months after entering Granada, Queen Isabella agreed to sponsor Christopher Columbus on an expedition to reach the East Indies by sailing west (for a distance of 2,000 miles, according to Columbus). [90]
3 days ago · In 1492, after the Reconquista, the Alhambra became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. This is where Christopher Columbus received his endorsement to voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Later, the Alhambra was abandoned and fell into disrepair. It was “rediscovered” in the early 1800’s, when Granada was occupied by Napolean’s army.
5 days ago · In search of fame and fortune, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands.
4 days ago · Had kept Christopher Columbus a long time in his house when he came from Portugal on his way to the King of France, in order to ask assistance in his discoveries. Thought that his enterprise would be advantageous to the King and Queen of Spain.
5 days ago · Voyages of Ferdinand Magellan (1519–22) and Francis Drake (1577–80) across the Atlantic Ocean and around the globe. (more) In 1492 the Italian Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in a Spanish-backed attempt to find a new trading route to Asia .
2 days ago · When he died, his son Ferdinand III, already king of Castile (1217–52) by reason of inheritance from his mother, Berenguela, a daughter of Alfonso VIII, succeeded him as king of León.
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4 days ago · Leif Erikson was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He was the first known European to have discovered continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus (or possibly Saint Brendan).
