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1492-10-12

Columbus reaches Guanahaní, a small island of the Lucayos

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The first land Columbus reached, on 12 October 1492: a small bean-shaped island of the Lucayos its people called Guanahaní, which the chart painters of Las Casas’s day called Triango.

Source  ·  p. t. V, p. 242 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Apologética historia (chapters printed in Historia de las Indias, t. V) (1876), p. t. V, p. 242