1492 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1492?
- 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.
- January 16, 1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
- 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.
- April 30, 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
- July 31, 1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
- August 3, 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
- 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.
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