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1492-12-05

1492-12-05: (Columbus Claims Ayiti for Spain, the Moment That Begins the European Colonization of the Island and the Destruction of Its Indigenous Taíno Civi…

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1492-12-05: (Columbus Claims Ayiti for Spain, the Moment That Begins the European Colonization of the Island and the Destruction of Its Indigenous Taíno Civilization): On December 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived off the coast of Ayiti and claimed the island for the Spanish crown. It was an act performed with flags and declarations that carried no meaning for the hundreds of thousands of Taíno already living there. What Columbus understood as discovery, the Taíno would soon experience as invasion, dispossession, and annihilation.