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1492 - Events

• January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
• March 30 - Ferdinand and 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 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

1492 - 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)

1492 - 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

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