It received federal holiday status in 1934 to celebrate the day that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Historians set that date on October 12, 1492. […] Skip to content.

Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy, moved to Portugal in 1476 to start a mapmaking business. At the time, called the Age of Exploration, Portugal was a leader, having already discovered the ...

It’s Columbus Day – a time when faulty lore about the “discoverer of America” abounds. ... 4. MYTH: Columbus discovered America. Oct. 10, 2011, 2:10 p.m. ET ...

It is commonly said that "Columbus discovered America." It would be more accurate, perhaps, to say that he introduced the Americas to Western Europe during his four voyages to the region between ...

Most of us were taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Yet it is far from clear cut. There are alternative theories about who got here first — some well-documented, others much ...

For decades, Americans have marked the second Monday in October as “Columbus Day.” Why Columbus? Because, as my generation learned in school, Columbus “discovered America.” But, of course ...

Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," Erdogan said. "Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178. Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast." ...

By now, you probably know Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America. He wasn’t even the first European to do it. Somehow, the 15th-century Italian explorer still got his own national holiday.