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West Indies timeline
c. 1000
Man-eating Caribs move into the islands around the sea named after them - the Caribbean
1492
The world's first globe is published by Martin Behaim without showing America, in the very year of Columbus' voyage
1492
After sailing for five weeks from the Canaries, Columbus and the Pinzón brothers step ashore in the Bahamas
1492
Columbus and his fellow explorers make landfall on the largest of the Caribbean islands, Cuba
1496
Diego Columbus, brother of the explorer, establishes the first secure Spanish colony at Santo Domingo
1515
The Spanish complete the conquest of Cuba and establish the town of Havana
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