1492
1492 was a
leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
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January 2 -
Boabdil, the last
Moorish King of
Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
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March 30 -
Ferdinand and
Isabella sign the
Alhambra decree expelling all
Jews from
Spain unless they convert to
Roman Catholicism.
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August 3 -
Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to
the Americas* August 3 - The
Jews are expelled from
Spain.
* Sultan Bayazid II of the
Ottoman Empire, learning about the expulsion of
Jews from
Spain, dispatched the
Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of
Selanik (currently in
Greece) and
Izmir (currently in
Turkey).[
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October 12 -
Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the
Caribbean. The
Italian explorer believes he has reached
East Asia.
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October 21 - Christopher Columbus lands on
San Salvador Island.
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October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands in
Cuba.
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November 7 - The
Ensisheim meteorite, a 127-kg
meteorite, lands in a wheat field near the village of
Ensisheim in
Alsace.
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December 5 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first known
European to set foot on the island of
Hispaniola.
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Casimir IV Jagiello of
Jagiello Royal House ends reign. (
1427-1492).
* Year 7000 according to the Byzantine
Date of Creation and an expected year of
Apocalypse*
March 4 -
Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer
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April 4 -
Ambrosius Blarer, German religious reformer (died
1564)
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April 11 -
Marguerite of Navarre, queen of
Henry II of Navarre (died
1549)
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July 2 -
Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of
Henry VII of England (died
1495)
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September 12 -
Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (died
1519)
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Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (died
1566)
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Pietro Aretino, Italian author (died
1556)
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Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Italian painter (died
1543)
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Berthold Haller, Swiss reformer (died
1536)
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Nguyen Binh Khiem, Vietnamese poet and saint (died
1587)
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Amago Kunihisa, Japanese nobleman (died
1554)
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Hirate Masahide, Japanese retainer and tutor of
Oda Nobunaga (died
1553)
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Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and geographer (died
1577)
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Cristóbal de Olid, Spanish adventurer (died
1542)
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Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (died
1531)
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Adam Ries, German mathematician (died
1559)
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Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (died
1543)
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Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theologian (died
1546)
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Edward Edward Wotton, English physician and zoologist (died
1552)
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April 8 -
Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (born
1449)
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June 7 -
Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of
Edward IV of England (born
1437)
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July 25 -
Pope Innocent VIII (born
1432)
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October 12 -
Piero della Francesca, Italian artist
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October 25 -
Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop
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November 6 -
Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet
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November 19 -
Jami, Persian poet (born
1414)
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November 24 -
Loys of Gruuthuse, earl of
Winchester*
Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born
1426)
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Casimir IV of Poland (born
1427)
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Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect
