- 1492
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1492 (disambiguation) "Year 1492 (MCDXCII) was a
leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1492
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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.Christopher Columbus is inAlhambra , and sees the Moorish king come out of the city gates and kiss the hands of the Spanish king, queen and prince.
*January 6 - Ferdinand and Isabella enter intoGranada .
*January 23 - The "Pentateuch " is first printed.
*March 31 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign theAlhambra decree , expelling allJew s fromSpain unless they convert toRoman Catholicism .
*July 31 - TheJew s are expelled fromSpain ; 150,000 flee.
*August 3 -Christopher Columbus "sails the ocean blue" on his first journey across theAtlantic Ocean tothe Americas .
*August 11 -Pope Alexander VI succeedsPope Innocent VIII as the 214thpope , after the 1492 papal conclave.
* SultanBayezid II of theOttoman Empire , learning about the expulsion ofJews fromSpain , dispatches theOttoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities ofThessaloniki (currently inGreece ) andİzmir (currently inTurkey ). [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Turkey.html]
*October 12 -Christopher Columbus ' expedition makes landfall in theCaribbean and lands onGuanahani , but believes he has reached theEast Indies .
*October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands inCuba .
*November 7 - TheEnsisheim meteorite , a 127-kgmeteorite , lands in a wheat field near the village ofEnsisheim inAlsace .
*December 5 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first knownEurope an to set foot on the island ofHispaniola .
*December 31 - About 100,000Jews are expelled fromSicily .
*Casimir IV Jagiello , of the Jagiello Royal House, ends his reign (1427 -1492).
* The firstarboretum to be designed and planted is the Arboretum Trsteno, nearDubrovnik inCroatia .
*Russians build a fortress inIvangorod , on the eastern banks of theNarva river .
*Leonardo da Vinci 'sVitruvian Man is created.
* InMing Dynasty China , the commercial transportation of grain to the northern border in exchange for salt certificates is monetarized.Religion
* Year 7,000, according to the Byzantine Date of Creation, and an expected year of
Apocalypse .Births
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March 4 -Francesco de Layolle , Italian composer (d. c.1540 )
*March 27 -Adam Ries , German mathematician (d.1559 )
*April 4 -Ambrosius Blarer , German religious reformer (d.1564 )
*April 11 -Marguerite of Navarre , queen ofHenry II of Navarre (d.1549 )
*April 20 -Pietro Aretino , Italian author (d.1556 )
*July 2 -Elizabeth Tudor , daughter ofHenry VII of England (d.1495 )
*September 7 -Giacomo Aconcio , Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (d.1566 )
*September 12 -Lorenzo II de' Medici , Duke of Urbino (d.1519 )
**Berthold Haller , Swiss reformer (d.1536 )
**Amago Kunihisa , Japanese nobleman (d.1554 )
**Hirate Masahide , Japanese retainer and tutor ofOda Nobunaga (d.1553 )
**Edward Edward Wotton , English physician and zoologist (d.1552 )
*"probable"
**Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (d.1543 )
**Fernan Perez de Oliva , Spanish man of letters (d.1531 )
**Polidoro da Caravaggio , Italian painter (d.1543 )
**Bernal Diaz del Castillo , Spanish historian (d.1581 )Deaths
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April 9 -Lorenzo de' Medici , ruler of Florence (b.1449 )
*June 7
**Casimir IV Jagiellon , King of Poland (b.1427 )
**Elizabeth Woodville , Queen ofEdward IV of England (b.1437 )
*July 25 -Pope Innocent VIII (b.1432 )
*October 12 -Piero della Francesca , Italian artist (b. c.1412 )
*October 25 -Thaddeus McCarthy , Irish bishop (b. c.1455 )
*November 6 -Antoine Busnois , French composer and poet (b. c.1430 )
*November 19 -Jami , Persian poet (b.1414 )
*Ygo Gales Galama , Frisian warlord and freedom-fighting rebel (murdered) (b.1443 )
*November 24 -Loys of Gruuthuse , Earl ofWinchester (b. c.1427 )
*"date unknown"
**Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (b.1426 )
**Baccio Pontelli , Italian architect (b. c.1450 )
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