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1492-12-21

Columbus enters the bay of L’Acul

Haitian

History. Christopher Columbus entered the bay of the Acul on 21 December 1492, which caused it to be given the name of Port of Saint-Thomas. Time has not respected this name.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Acul du Nord (l’).

Source  ·  p. t. I, p. 6 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. I) (1892), p. t. I, p. 6