1492

Events

January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moors|Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.

March 30 - Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile|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 Italy|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.

December 5 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first known European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.

Casimir IV Jagiello of Jagiello Royal House ends reign. (1427-1492).

Year 7000 according to Dating Creation and an expected year of Apocalypse

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)

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)

November 24 - Loys of Gruuthuse, earl of Winchester

Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born 1426)

Casimir IV of Poland (born 1427)

Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect