Christopher Columbus
Between August and October of the year of 1451 a man named Christopher Columbus was born. He was the oldest son of a Domenico Columbus, a wool-worker and a small sales merchant. Little did anyone know that this child would grow to become one of the most important historical figures of the world. Columbus was not one of school he received very little formal education and therefore was a self-taught man. So he began working at sea very early in his life. His first voyage was to Aegean Island of Chios, in 1475. One year later he moved to Lisbon, Portugal to live with his brother as a chart maker. Chart making wasn’t Columbus’s destiny as he se off again for sea in 1477.
In 1479 Columbus and his wife Perestrello were wed. They had a son on 1480 and they named him Diego. Five years later Columbus became a widower and soon after began a relationship with beatriz Enriwue de Harana of Corodoba, who provided him a second son, Ferdinand. Columbus and beatrize were never married.
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