12 October 1492
Discovery of Watling Island
Land is sighted, thought to be Watling Island, now San Salvador Island
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Watling Island in Spain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Land is sighted, thought to be Watling Island, now San Salvador Island
Provenance
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