The Dominican Republic celebrates this day as "The Discovery of America". The landing is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, but the name varies internationally. Columbus and his crew's arrival in the New World initiated the colonisation of the Americas by Spain, followed in the ensuing centuries by other European powers, as well as the transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and technology between the New and Old Worlds, an event referred to by some late 20th‐century historians as the Columbian exchange. Columbus's first voyage to the New World on the Spanish ships Santa María, Niña, and La Pinta took about three months. Ĭhristopher Columbus ( Italian: Cristoforo Colombo ) was a Genoese explorer who led a Spanish enterprise to cross the Atlantic Ocean in search of an alternative route to the Far East, only to land in the New World. Columbus went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12, 1492.
October 12 (actual/traditional) second Monday in October (observed in the United States) first Monday in November (observed in Italy)Ĭolumbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Recognize contributions of Americans of Italian descent.
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