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1492 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1492 MCDXCII
Ab urbe condita	2245
Armenian calendar	941 ԹՎ ՋԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	6242
Bengali calendar	899
Berber calendar	2442
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 7 – 8 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2036
Burmese calendar	854
Byzantine calendar	7000–7001
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4188 or 4128     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4189 or 4129
Coptic calendar	1208–1209
Discordian calendar	2658
Ethiopian calendar	1484–1485
Hebrew calendar	5252–5253
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1548–1549
- Shaka Samvat	1413–1414
- Kali Yuga	4592–4593
Holocene calendar	11492
Igbo calendar	492–493
Iranian calendar	870–871
Islamic calendar	897–898
Japanese calendar	Entoku 4 / Meiō 1 (明応元年)
Javanese calendar	1409–1410
Julian calendar	1492 MCDXCII
Korean calendar	3825
Minguo calendar	420 before ROC 民前420年
Nanakshahi calendar	24
Thai solar calendar	2034–2035

Year 1492 (MCDXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

The year 1492 is considered to be a significant year in the history of the West, Europe, Christianity, Spain, and the New World, among others, because of the number of significant events to have taken place during it. Some of the events which propelled the year into Western consciousness, also listed below, include the completion of the Reconquista of Spain, the discovery of the West Indies, and the Expulsion of Jews from Spain.

Events

January 2 – Muhammad XII, last Moorish Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella.

October 12 – Columbus discovers the Americas for Spain.

January–December

• January 2 – Fall of Granada: Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, after a lengthy siege, ending the 10-year Granada War and the centuries-long Reconquista and bringing an end to 780 years of Muslim control in Al-Andalus.
• January 6 – Ferdinand and Isabella enter into Granada.
• January 15 – Christopher Columbus meets Ferdinand and Isabella at the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos in Córdoba, Andalusia, and persuades them to support his Atlantic voyage intended to find a new route to the East Indies.
• January 23 – The Pentateuch is first printed.
• March 31 – Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra Decree, expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
• April 17 – The Capitulations of Santa Fe are signed between Christopher Columbus and the Crown of Castile agreeing arrangements for his forthcoming voyage.
• July 31 – The Jews are expelled from Spain; 40,000–200,000 leave. Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning of this, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (in modern-day Greece) and İzmir (in modern-day Turkey).^[1]
• August 3 – The Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus sails with three ships from Palos de la Frontera in the service of the Crown of Castile on his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, intending to reach Asia.
• August 11 – Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope, after the 1492 papal conclave, the first held in the Sistine Chapel.
• October – English army besieges Boulogne-sur-Mer.^[2]
• October 11 – Several members of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus witness an unusual light.
• October 12 – Christopher Columbus' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, but he believes he has reached the East Indies.
• October 28 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
• November 3 – Peace of Étaples signed between England and France, ending French support for the pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck. All English-held territory in France with the exception of Calais is returned to France.^[3]
• November 7 – The Ensisheim meteorite, a 127-kg meteorite, lands in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace.
• December 5 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first known European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.
• December 25 – Columbus' ship Santa María runs aground off Cap-Haïtien and is lost.
• December 31 – About 100,000 Jews are expelled from Sicily.

Date unknown

• Antonio de Nebrija publishes Gramática de la lengua castellana, the first grammar text for the language of Castile, in Salamanca, which he introduces to Ferdinand and Isabella as "a tool of empire."
• Martin Behaim constructs the first surviving globe of Earth, the Erdapfel. As Columbus would only return from his voyage in 1493, this globe does not show the New World yet.
• Casimir IV Jagiellon, of the Jagiellon Royal House, ends his reign (1427–1492).
• The first arboretum to be designed and planted is the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia.
• Russians build the Ivangorod Fortress, on the eastern banks of the Narva River.
• In Ming dynasty China, the commercial transportation of grain to the northern border in exchange for salt certificates is monetized.
• Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton, North Yorkshire, founded.
• Marsilio Ficino publishes his translation and commentary of Plotinus.

Births

• January 22 – Beatrix of Baden, Margravine of Baden by birth, by marriage Countess Palatine of Simmern (d. 1535)
• March 4 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
• March 20 – John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Count Palatine of Simmern (1509-1557) (d. 1557)
• March 27 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (d. 1559)
• April 4 – Ambrosius Blarer, influential reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland (d. 1564)
• April 6 – Maud Green, English noble (d. 1531)
• April 11 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
• April 20 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author (d. 1556)
• April 24 – Sabina of Bavaria, Bavarian Duchess (d. 1564)
• May 8 – Andrea Alciato, Italian jurist and writer (d. 1550)
• July 2 – Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1495)
• August 1 – Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1566)
• August 8 – Matteo Tafuri, Italian alchemist (d. 1582)
• September 7 – Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (d. 1566)
• September 12 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
• September 29 – Chamaraja Wodeyar III, King of Mysore (d. 1553)
• October 1 – Georg Rörer, German theologian (d. 1557)
• October 11 – Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, French noble (d. 1495)
• October 30 – Anne d'Alençon, Nobleman (d. 1562)
• November 12 – Johan Rantzau, German general (d. 1565)
• November 27 – Donato Giannotti, Italian writer (d. 1573)
• date unknown
  • Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (d. 1554)
  • Berchtold Haller, Swiss reformer (d. 1536)
  • Amago Kunihisa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1554)
  • Hirate Masahide, Japanese retainer and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (d. 1553)
  • Edward Wotton, English physician and zoologist (d. 1555)
• 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 Díaz del Castillo, Spanish historian (d. 1584)

Deaths

• January 25 – Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and freedom-fighting rebel (murdered) (b. 1443)
• April 9 – Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)
• June 7
  • Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (b. 1427)
  • Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward 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)
• November 24 – Loys of Gruuthuse, Earl of Winchester (b. c. 1427)
• October 31 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (b. 1426)
• Date unknown
  • Ali al-Jabarti, Somali scholar and politician
  • Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect (b. c. 1450)
  • Sonni Ali, Songhai ruler

References

1. Jewish virtual library.org.
2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 189–192. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

External links

• "1492". Timeline. USA: Digital Public Library of America.