1492 Calendar
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Historical Event(s)
January 2, 1492
– Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders
January 6, 1492
– Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
March 31, 1492
– Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
April 17, 1492
– Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
July 31, 1492
– The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
September 6, 1492
– Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
October 12, 1492
– Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached India
November 7, 1492
– The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
November 9, 1492
– Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
December 5, 1492
– Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Who Were Born On ?
March 4, 1492
– Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
April 4, 1492
– Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)
April 11, 1492
– Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
July 2, 1492
– Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
September 12, 1492
– Duke Lorenzo II de' Medici of Urbino (d. 1519)