Annual Greater Cleveland Chapter Columbus Day Dinner

Columbus Day was established as a national holiday by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to commemorate Christopher Columbus, who discovered the New World on Oct. 12, 1492, when he made landfall on what is now known as San Salvador in the Bahama Islands.

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a faster route to the New World. His first voyage to the New World on the Spanish ships the Santa María, Niña, and La Pinta took approximately three months. Columbus and his crew’s arrival to the New World initiated the Columbian Exchange which introduced the transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and technology between the new world and the old.

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day a national holiday, largely as a result of intense lobbying by the Knights of Columbus, an influential Catholic fraternal organization. This event also recognizes the Greater Cleveland Chapter Knight of the Year.

(Please Note added benefit: Greater Cleveland Chapter Council Members also get a $5.00 per person discount when attending this event.)