by Andrew Rowen | | Portugal, Spain
Columbus, crew, and the ten Taínos aboard the Niña departed Portugal on March 13 and anchored two days later at Palos, Spain, the small port from which the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María had departed on August 3, 1492. Coincidentally, the Pinta returned to Palos the...
by Andrew Rowen | | Spain
Columbus’s Journal provides a European historical record of daily events over a seven-month period (August 3, 1492 through March 15, 1493) which is unusual for the 15th century and far exceeds in detail and specificity the related historical record preceding or...
by Andrew Rowen | | Spain
On March 31, 1493, then Palm Sunday, Columbus and the ten Taínos arrived at Seville, shown below c. 1588 (Civitates Orbis Terrarum). They would have entered by the bridge over the Guadalquivir in the lower left (a predecessor to the present Puente de Isabel II),...
by Andrew Rowen | | Spain
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...
by Andrew Rowen | | Spain
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...
by Andrew Rowen | | Spain
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...
