12 oct. 1492 - Columbus Lands in the Americas

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Christopher Columbus' intentionally traveled westward to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but instead he stumbled upon the Americas. It is commonly known that Columbus was the first to ¨discover¨ the United States, but that is entirely false. Columbus arrived in the Bahamas where his expeditions marked the beginning of centuries of transatlantic conquests and colonization.