Late Middle Ages · South America · Exploration
1498
Columbus's Third Voyage Sights South America
May 30, 1498
Columbus's fleet reached the coast of what is now Venezuela and entered the Orinoco delta. The volume of fresh water pouring into the Gulf of Paria convinced him he had found a continent, or possibly the earthly Paradise. He wrote as much to the Spanish court. It was South America, and it was inhabited.
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Also in 1498 (5 other events on record)
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- Savonarola Executed in Florence · Europe · Religion
- Louis XII Becomes King of France · Europe · Politics
- Cabot's Second Voyage Lost · North America · Exploration
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.