1492 from a Bicultural Perspective
Encounters Unforeseen was published in 2017, during the 525th anniversary of the first
encounters between Columbus and Native Americans. Andrew’s blogs posted in 2017 and 2018
to recount what happened on the same dates in 1492 and 1493 are archived below, reordered
chronologically. The archive also includes the sketches of the book’s protagonists and some
additional photos and commentary that Andrew concurrently posted on Facebook. Dates are
based on the Julian calendar used by Europeans in 1492.
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Chronology
Mid-April, 1493
By April 11, Columbus and six Taínos departed Seville for Barcelona, traveling by mule on a route through Córdoba, Murcia, and Valencia, as shown in red superimposed on the map contained in Encounters Unforeseen: Crowds gathered as Columbus passed through to observe...
April 1493
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand didn’t wait for Columbus to arrive in Barcelona to proclaim the triumph of their sponsorship of Columbus’s voyage or assert dominion over the Taíno territory he had explored. On April 1, 1493, after some editing, they published...
May 3, 1493
On May 3, Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo de Borja) published the papal bull Inter Caetera recognizing Castile’s right to the islands and mainlands Columbus had “discovered and to be discovered” thereafter (i.e., the Taíno homeland). He later prepared two additional...
Spring-Summer 1493
The garrison of sailors Columbus left with Chief Guacanagarí in January 1493 (see January 1) left no written account, and its history is known principally through reports of Columbus and other Europeans chronicling Columbus’s second voyage. These reports conclude the...
May 29, 1493
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand spent May organizing the effort to dispatch Columbus’s second voyage promptly. They appointed Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, archdeacon of Seville, to administer the enterprise with Columbus, granting the two men broad authority to...
Late May or Early June, 1493
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand had required the six Taínos’ instruction in Christianity and, prior to dispatching Columbus with them on the second voyage, ordered their baptism. Columbus’s most utilized captive—one of Encounters Unforeseen’s protagonists (see...
June 1493
After baptism of the six Taínos, Columbus and five Taínos departed Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand’s court in Barcelona for Seville, where Columbus would organize the second voyage. The captive baptized Juan—as Prince Juan—was adopted by the prince and required to...
Summer 1493
By early July, Columbus and his entourage arrived in Seville, where he began commissioning ships and enlisting men for his second voyage and the colonization of “Española.” The five Taínos baptized in Barcelona (see Late May or Early June) reunited with the four...
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