# Columbus sails from Palos on 3 August 1492 as a dated Castilian-sponsored departure

Date: 1492

## The fact

On 3 August 1492 [Columbus](/people/christopher-columbus) sailed from Palos as Castilian-sponsored commander. Pinzón brothers shared the ships. Landfall is next. Christopher Columbus's documented role is: He commanded three ships. Pinzón brothers and crews sailed; the crown sponsored.

## Context

Palos and the [Río Tinto](/organizations/rio-tinto) are the departure. Sharing command with the Pinzóns is required. The setting of Columbus sails from Palos on 3 August 1492 as a dated Castilian-sponsored departure is the public file around 1492-08-03. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is industrial-policy-activism. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Columbus, first voyage departure at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Project Gutenberg — Columbus journal later English at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18571 (Project Gutenberg). Official carrier: Britannica — Columbus, first voyage departure (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Project Gutenberg — Columbus journal later English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18571; Project Gutenberg).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Columbus, first voyage departure (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from Columbus sails from Palos on 3 August 1492 as a dated Castilian-sponsored departure on 1492-08-03. A dated ocean departure is an industrial-navigation path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of Columbus sails from Palos on 3 August 1492 as a dated Castilian-sponsored departure. Naming Christopher Columbus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1492-08-03 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Columbus sails from Palos on 3 August 1492 as a dated Castilian-sponsored departure under 1492-08-03 for Christopher Columbus. Established: a sourced public record of Columbus sails from Palos on 3 August 1492 as a dated Castilian-sponsored departure under 1492-08-03.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Landfall is a neighbouring Fact. Do not twin departure and landfall as one. Mixed effects of Columbus sails from Palos on 3 August 1492 as a dated Castilian-sponsored departure are separate paths.

## People

- Christopher Columbus: https://factrail.ai/people/christopher-columbus

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18571
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/col-depart-1492