Christopher Columbus, 1451-1506
From Round About the North Pole (published 1907) by W. J. Gordon with woodcuts and other illustrations by Edward Whymper (1840-1911). Despite generations of children being taught Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, he didn't set foot in America just various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas and the island later called Hispaniola. Nor would he have been the first anyway as evidence has been found of Norse viking settlements in North America, probably settled by Leif Erikson 500 years before Columbus. Columbus never admitted he had found the new world insisting he had discovered the East Indies. It was left to Amerigo Vespucci in 1512 to conclude the New World was actually a new continent. Hence why they are called the Americas.
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