Saturday, March 15, 2025

Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World (1493)


 

On March 15, 1493, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus arrived back in the Spanish harbour of Palos de la Frontera, two months after concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

On his arrival back in Spain, Christopher Columbus immediately wrote a letter announcing his discoveries to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who had helped finance his trip. The letter was written in Spanish and sent to Rome, where it was printed in Latin by Stephan Plannck. Plannck mistakenly left Queen Isabella’s name out of the pamphlet’s introduction but quickly realized his error and reprinted the pamphlet a few days later.

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