What Day did Christopher Columbus discover America?

oct. 12, 1492

According to "To America and Around the World -- Columbus/Magellan The Logs of Christopher Columbus" it's still in debate. However, it says August 1, 1498. And Amerigo Vespuci landed a year before that. But I'm going with what I learned in History class in grade school - October 12, 1492. On the Gregorian Calendar - it was a Wednesday, on the Global Calendar, it was a Monday.

Christopher Columbus first arrived in the Caribbean Islands on October 12, 1492, as convential history tells us (this was the first of four trips for Columbus). But he did not "discover" this part of the world, as about 4 million original inhabitants were living on the islands at the time Columbus arrived.

Leif Eriksson is believed to be the first European to arrive on the North American continent with a contigent of other Greenlanders in about 985 or 986, but the Norsemen stayed for only two years at most (in L'Anse-aux-Meadows in current Newfoundland).

The first people who "discovered" the Americas were tribes from Asia who crossed over the Bering land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, about 40,000 years ago.

he didnt "discover" America. Quite a few other explorers like Magellan ran into America before Christopher Columbus did. He just got all the credit. And I dont understand why everyone seems to thik that. But he "discovered" it within the year of 1492. I dont believe there is an actual date. He just claimed Latin America for the Spainish.

Christopher Columbus never discovered America the first Spanish person was Juan Ponce DE Leon who landed in Florida in 1513

October 12, 1492

As has been said, Columbus did not discover America. He landed at islands in the Carribean.

The first people to land in North America were Vikings (Leif Erikson).....it is even surmised that the ancient Phoenicians landed somewhere in the western hemisphere, though I think there is very little to no actual evidence of that.

October 12, 1492. He left Spain on August 3, 1492--also a Friday.

12 October 1492

The Vikings "discovered" America (well, it didn`t have a name then...duh) long before Columbus set foot on it

If we believe October 12, 1492, it was a Friday