Arnold K. I am sure that [God] inspired a little boy, Christopher Columbus, to stand on the quays of Genoa, Italy, and yearn for the sea. Such has been my interest for more than forty years.
Other than this, Columbus wrote very little about his youth in his personal writings; consequently he left to his biographers the task of piecing together the events of his early years. Fortunately, several historians have done admirable work. When was Columbus born? However, there are two documents which narrow the possible date of his birth to sometime between 25 August and 31 October, probably in the year The first document was a deposition dated 31 October wherein Christopher stated that he was over nineteen years of age.
The second is called the Asserto Document of 25 August , in which he declared that he was twenty-seven years old or thereabouts. If he was older than nineteen and not yet twenty on 31 October , and about twenty-seven on 25 August , Columbus was most likely born between 25 August and the end of October, Morison, Admiral, ,23nl7; hereafter noted by author and volume: page.
Inasmuch as Columbus became such a famous world figure, writers from many nations have tried to claim him as a native son. Even though all of the reputable historians of his day maintained that he was born in the Italian Republic of Genoa, several authors in the past two centuries have challenged that fact.
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Motivated primarily by fanatic nationalism, various historians have claimed he was born in such diverse places as Castile, Portugal, France, Germany, England, and even Greece.
