Colombus Day

Arrival of Christopher Columbus to America.

Columbus Day is the name that was originally called in most Latin American countries the festival on October 12 to commemorate the landfall for the sailor Rodrigo de Triana in 1492 , after having sailed more than two months in charge Christopher Columbus to what would later be called America.

This memorial feast remains generally in Latin America, although many countries have given other names such as Columbus Day in Spain , or Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity in Argentina , or Day of Indigenous Resistance in Venezuela .The date marks the birth of a new identity and fusion product of the meeting of the native peoples of the Americas and the Spanish colonizers .

In 1914 he celebrated the October 12 first as party of the Race. In 1915 renamed Columbus Day : Is aspiration encouraged by the Ibero - American Union , and proposed to be undertaken to make active propaganda in 1913 , the commemoration of the date of discovery of America in a way that both tribute to the memory of the immortal Christopher Columbus serve to externalize spiritual intimacy between the discoverer and civilizing nation and those formed on American soil , now prosperous states.

The Union first celebrated the " Feast of the Spanish Race " in 1914 , in 1915 was celebrated as " Columbus Day " at Casa Argentina de Málaga , and since 1917 the city of Madrid took the celebration of the "Feast of Race "in the capital of Spain . It becomes a national holiday by the law of Alfonso XIII of June 15, 1918 .

The name Columbus Day - and Hispanic - word itself was proposed in the late 20's by Bishop Zacharias de Vizcarra ( Spanish priest , who lives in Buenos Aires ) Maeztu journalist (then Ambassador of Spain in Buenos Aires ) , because he considered 'less happy and something improper " the name Columbus Day . The new name was gradually replacing the old in Spain ( not in America) , until January 10, 1958 is official by decree of the Prime Minister.

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