Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: 1451 births, 1451 deaths, 1451 establishments, 1451 in politics, Christopher Columbus, Murad II, Isabella I of Castile, Machico, Guru Jambheshwar, Barbara of Cilli, Giles Daubeny, 1st Baron Daubeny, René II, Duke of Lorraine, William Boleyn, John Lydgate, Antipope Felix V, Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, Isabella of Viseu, Trịnh Khả, Mykolas Kęsgaila, Franchinus Gaffurius, Irene of Lesvos, Raffaello Maffei, William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, Nerio II Acciaioli, Anna of Ryazan, List of state leaders in 1451, Engelbert II of Nassau, John Wessington, Thomas Long of Draycot, Niccolò di Piero Lamberti, Máireg Béan Ó Conchubhair Fáilghe, John More, Elisabeth, Duchess of Luxembourg, 'Abdullah, George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Micheletto Attendolo, Treaty of Gaeta, Hippolytus de Marsiliis, Al-Mustakfi II, Gojčin Crnojević, Sultan Muhammad, Stefan Lochner, William Byngham, William van Brederode, Murcadh Ó Madadhan, Caterina Appiani, Bogdan II of Moldavia. Excerpt: Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 - 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which foreshadowed the general European colonization of the "New World." In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth though the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's far-fetched proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing westward received the support of the...
