On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" id="mwNw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> becomes the first European to discover the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad" id="mwOA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a>.