1492

This article is about the year 1492. For the number, see 1492 (number). For other uses, see 1492 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1489 1490 1491 – 1492 – 1493 1494 1495

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1492 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1492 MCDXCII
Ab urbe condita	2245
Armenian calendar	941 ԹՎ ՋԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	6242
Bahá'í calendar	-352–-351
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	辛亥年十二月初二日 (4128/4188-12-2) — to — 壬子年十二月十三日 (4129/4189-12-13)
Coptic calendar	1208–1209
Ethiopian calendar	1484–1485
Hebrew calendar	5252–5253
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1548–1549
- Shaka Samvat	1414–1415
- Kali Yuga	4593–4594
Holocene calendar	11492
Iranian calendar	870–871
Islamic calendar	897–898
Japanese calendar	Entoku 4Meiō 1 (明応元年)
Korean calendar	3825
Minguo calendar	420 before ROC 民前420年
Thai solar calendar	2035

October 12 1492 – Columbus discovers The Americas for Spain. Beginning of the Modern Age.

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

Events

January–December

• January 2 – Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege, ending the 10-year Granada War and the Reconquista which lasted almost 800 years. Christopher Columbus is in Alhambra, and sees the Moorish king come out of the city gates and kiss the hands of the Spanish king, queen and prince.
• January 6 – Ferdinand and Isabella enter into Granada.
• 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 were signed.
• July 31 – The Jews are expelled from Spain; 40,000-200,000 leave. Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning about the expulsion of Jews from Spain, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (currently in Greece) and İzmir (currently in Turkey).
• August 3 – Christopher Columbus "sails the ocean blue" 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.
• 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 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 31 – About 100,000 Jews are expelled from Sicily.

Date unknown

• Antonio de Nebrija publishes 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 Jagiello, of the Jagiello 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 a fortress in Ivangorod, 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

• March 4 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
• March 27 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (d. 1559)
• April 4 – Ambrosius Blarer, German religious reformer (d. 1564)
• April 11 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
• April 20 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author (d. 1556)
• July 2 – Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1495)
• September 7 – Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (d. 1566)
• September 12 – Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
• date unknown
  • Berthold 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 Diaz del Castillo, Spanish historian (d. 1581)

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 – Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect (b. c. 1450)