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Christopher Columbus First voyage (aug 3, 1492 – jan 3, 1493)

Description:

The ships for the first voyage—the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María—were fitted out at Palos, on the Tinto River in Spain. Consortia put together by a royal treasury official and composed mainly of Genoese and Florentine bankers in Sevilla (Seville) provided at least 1,140,000 maravedis to outfit the expedition, and Columbus supplied more than a third of the sum contributed by the king and queen.

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Date:

aug 3, 1492
jan 3, 1493
~ 5 months and 2 days