Columbus's Voyages: Route Map & Timeline

Christopher Columbus: 8 stops from 1492 to 1504, from Palos to Seville.

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Route and timeline

#	Year	Place	What happened
1	1492	Palos	Sails from Palos with three ships to find a western route to Asia.
2	1492	Canary Islands	Resupplies and crosses the Atlantic.
3	1492	Guanahani	Makes his first landfall in the Americas and names the island San Salvador.
4	1492	Hispaniola	The Santa María runs aground; he founds the settlement of La Navidad.
5	1493	Barcelona	Returns to Spain and is received by the Catholic Monarchs.
6	1498	Trinidad	On his third voyage he reaches the coast of South America.
7	1502	Central American coast	On his fourth voyage he searches the coast from Honduras to Panama for a strait.
8	1504	Seville	Returns to Spain; he dies two years later.

Other journeys

Alexander's Conquests · 336 BC — 323 BC
Hannibal's March · 218 BC — 183 BC
Caesar's Campaigns · 58 BC — 44 BC
Charlemagne's Empire · 768 — 814
Luther & the Reformation · 1483 — 1546
Mozart's Travels · 1756 — 1791
Napoleon's Campaigns · 1769 — 1815
Harald Hardrada · 1030 — 1066
Peter the Great · 1682 — 1725
Xuanzang's Journey to India · 629 — 645
Genghis Khan's Campaigns · 1206 — 1227
Marco Polo's Travels · 1271 — 1295
Ibn Battuta's Travels · 1325 — 1354
Zheng He's Voyages · 1405 — 1433
Captain Cook's Voyages · 1768 — 1779

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.