Cuba Visited by Columbus

1432

Several Portuguese expeditions, unrecorded but inferred, may have touched the northern Antilles decades before Columbus; no documentary proof exists. Columbus himself reached Cuba sixty years later on his first voyage. This year stands as a placeholder for the Atlantic's unwritten pre-Columbian history of sightings and rumor. The entry reflects the fog of pre-Columbian Atlantic navigation, a patchwork of rumor and half-knowledge rewritten by 1492.