Official Chronology of Giovanni Griego alias Christopher Columbus

Columbus the pirate supplanted John Cabot.

DATE
EVENT
About 1436
 The future pirate Giovanni Griego, alias Christopher Columbus, is born on the island of Sicily. His ancestors were probably VIKINGS....The Vikings were the terror of the seas for centuries. The Vikings (Normans) conquered Sicily and ruled that island until the Aragonese supplanted them around the 12th century. That is why he could call himself Italian even though he did not speak a word of Italian.
1485
Giovanni Griego of the family of Colombo Junior is a free lance pirate employed by the king of Portugal. On August 22, he takes part in a piratical attack on Venetian ships off the coast of Portugal. He narrowly escapes death by grabbing an oar and swimming to shore. With the stolen loot he marries a Portuguese lady of royal birth and moves to the island of Madeira near the Canary Islands.
1486
After surviving a horrific hurricane that blew their ship all the way to the island of Santo Domingo in the New World, Alonso Sánchez the pilot and 4 Spanish sailors are shipwrecked on the island of Madeira . . . and they all die in the house of Columbus....He steals the maps and charts showing the location of the New World....Columbus approaches the king of Portugal in order to finance his voyage of "discovery" but the king refuses to meet his demands.
1487
Columbus arrives in Spain and changes his name to Christopher or "Christ bearer." He presents his great idea for the "discovery" of new islands to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. They also refuse to meet his demands.
1492
After receiving minute details of the voyages of John Cabot, the Catholic Sovereigns decide to give Columbus all the titles and money that he demanded....Using the dead pilot's maps to guide him, he sets sail on August 3 with 3 ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa María. Martin Pinzón, captain of the Niña, is first to land on Santo Domingo!!
1493
In March, only the Niña and the Pinta return to Spain because Columbus shipwrecks his ship the Santa María. Before going to Barcelon to meet the King and Queen, Martin Pinzón invites Columbus to stay at his house . . . and he dies a few days later....Pope Borgia—a Spanish Pope—issues a Papal Bull (official Vatican document) giving the entire New World to Spain and warning every other nation not to even think about going there!!
1498
 On his 3rd voyage, Columbus finally reaches the coast of Venezuela and sees the New World mainland for the first time— 4 years after John Cabot. By this time, the news of the shipwrecked Spanish sailors is everywhere so Columbus decides to get revenge by killing and enslaving the New World natives....The Spanish Inquisition was also very anxious to occupy and set up forts on the islands and mainland in order to attack any English ships that appeared.
1506
 Columbus dies of old age in Valladolid, Spain, on May 20, 1506. No portrait of Columbus is painted because no artist or sculptor wanted to retain an image of the pirate for posterity!!

Editor's Note

All the biographers of Columbus say that he was born in Genoa, Italy, around 1451. That was the time and place of the birth of Giovanni Caboto — the real discoverer of the New World. Columbus supplanted John Cabot!!

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