USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador.

Detailed explanation-2: -San Salvador Island, also called Watlings Island, one of the islands of The Bahamas, in the West Indies. San Salvador is believed by many scholars to be the island of Guanahani, where Christopher Columbus made his first landing in the New World on October 12, 1492.

Detailed explanation-3: -Guanahaní was the Taíno name of an island in the Bahamas that was the first land in the New World sighted and visited by Christopher Columbus’ first voyage, on 12 October 1492.

Detailed explanation-4: -Columbus made four transatlantic voyages: 1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04. He traveled primarily to the Caribbean, including the Bahamas, Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Jamaica, and in his latter two voyages traveled to the coasts of eastern Central America and northern South America.

Detailed explanation-5: -He landed on a small island in the Bahamas, which he named San Salvador. He claimed the island for the King and Queen of Spain, although it was already populated. Columbus called all the people he met in the islands ‘Indians’, because he was sure that he had reached the Indies.