1492
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Years: 1489 1490 1491 - 1492 - 1493 1494 1495 |
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Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |
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Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
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Events
- January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
- March 30 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree expelling all Jews and Black ladinos from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
- August 3 - Christopher Columbus first sails to the Americas
- August 3 - The Jews are expelled from Spain.
- October 12 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The Italian explorer believes he has reached East Asia.
- October 21 - Christopher Columbus lands on the San Salvador Islands.
- October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
- Casimir IV Jagiello of Jagiello Royal House ends reign. (1427-1492).
- Year 7000 according to Dating Creation and an expected year of Apocalypse
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Births
- March 4 - Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer
- April 4 - Ambrosius Blarer, German religious reformer (died 1564)
- April 11 - Marguerite of Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (died 1549)
- July 2 - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (died 1495)
- September 12 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (died 1519)
- Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of relgious tolerance (died 1566)
- Pietro Aretino, Italian author (died 1556)
- Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Italian painter (died 1543)
- Berthold Haller, Swiss reformer (died 1536)
- Nguyen Binh Khiem, Vietnamese poet and saint (died 1587)
- Amago Kunihisa, Japanese nobleman (died 1554)
- Hirate Masahide, Japanese retainer and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (died 1553)
- Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and geographer (died 1577)
- Cristóbal de Olid, Spanish adventurer (died 1542)
- Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (died 1531)
- Adam Ries, German mathematician (died 1559)
- Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (died 1543)
- Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theologian (died 1546)
- Edward Edward Wotton, English physician and zoologist (died 1552)
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Deaths
- April 8 - Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (born 1449)
- June 7 - Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV of England (born 1437)
- July 25 - Pope Innocent VIII (born 1432)
- October 12 - Piero della Francesca, Italian artist
- October 25 - Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop
- November 6 - Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet
- November 19 - Jami, Persian poet (born 1414)
- Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born 1426)
- Casimir IV of Poland (born 1427)
- Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect