Isabella pledging her jewels to finance the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Isabella I, 1451 – 1504. Queen of Castile. Christopher Columbus, c. 1451 – 1506. Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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