Renaissance · North America · Exploration
1502
Columbus Sets Out a Fourth Time
May 11, 1502
Sixty years old, gout-ridden and half-disgraced, Columbus left Cadiz with four battered caravels on a last search for a westward passage to the Indies. Forbidden to land at Hispaniola, he would spend the voyage marooned on Jamaica and never find the strait he was chasing. His exploration of the Central American coast, though it failed to find a strait, provided the first European knowledge of the isthmus Balboa would cross.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.