1 Jan 1493 Jahr - Columbus 1493-1506

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1493 Christopher Columbus returns from the Caribbean, and later in the year he sails back to the Caribbean.

1494 Kings were doing what kings had been doing for ages: pursuing wealth, territorial expansion and control over people. This year Christopher Columbus – an agent for Ferdinand and Isabella – begins using people of the Caribbean as slaves.

1498 Columbus sails from Spain with six ships on his third voyage to the Americas.

1502 Christopher Columbus begins his fourth and last journey to the Caribbean. He still believes that the islands he has found lay off the coast of India.

1506 May 20: Columbus dies in Spain.

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