Amerigo Vespucci Day 2022
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However, I never really thought much about other than America was named for him. I was always under the impression that his purview was derived from the military and not commerce.
I was always interested in him because the topic of "America" and "American" have always been dear to my heart.
Amerigo Vespucci as it turns out was an Italian navigator, explorer, and merchant from the Republic of Florence in what is now italy.
The name "America" is derived from his name and it has been stated that he was the first European to set eyes upon the new world.
In 1497 he made his first voyage of the Age of Discovery in the name of Spain.
In 1504 he participated in a second voyage of the Age of Discovery, first on behalf of and then for Portugal
He is known for proving those in Europe that the New World was not Asia as was widely believed — but a fourth previously undiscovered continent.
He was born March 9, 1454 in Florence, Italy. He died February 22, 1512, Seville, Spain. He was married from 1505 through 1512 to one Maria Cerezo. They had no children.
In the world while the left would attempt to revise the facts of the past; some must remain fast in our memory and that is the ones of Amerigo Vespucci.
On March 2, 1959 Governor Nelson A Rockefeller of New York declared the holdiay called Amerigo Vespucci Day. His reputation came to suffer at some of his radical ideas whereby he thought the common citizen to be "expendible" and could just "be killed" for wanting to know too much in the way of technology and private deals made by the government.