Christopher Columbus

1451 – 1506

Exploration

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Contemporaries

Leonardo da Vinci

54 yr overlap

Niccolò Machiavelli

37 yr overlap

Vasco da Gama

37 yr overlap

Nicolaus Copernicus

33 yr overlap

Michelangelo

31 yr overlap

Ferdinand Magellan

26 yr overlap

Raphael

23 yr overlap

Martin Luther

23 yr overlap

Johannes Gutenberg

17 yr overlap

Henry VIII

15 yr overlap

Suleiman the Magnificent

12 yr overlap

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