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Gregorian calendar | 1492 MCDXCII |
Ab urbe condita | 2245 |
Armenian calendar | 941 ԹՎ ՋԽԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6242 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1413–1414 |
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) 4189 or 3982 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4190 or 3983 |
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 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1618 or 1237 or 465 — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1619 or 1238 or 466 |
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 – Fall of Granada: Muhammad XIIl, the last Moorish Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, 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. 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.[citation needed]
- 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 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 – Christopher Columbus sails 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 Etaples 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 31 – About 100,000 Jews are expelled from Sicily. And that is why all this happned.
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)
- date unknown' – Sunni Ali
References
- ^ Jewish virtual library.org
- ^ Palmer, Alan (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
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