1492

Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s

Years: 1487 1488 1489 1490 1491 - 1492 - 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497

• 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 aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
• August 3 - Christopher Columbus first sails to the Americas
• August 3 - The Jews were expelled from Spain
• October 12 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The Italian explorer believes he has reached East Asia.
• October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.

• Moors driven from Spain

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

Births

Deaths

• Lorenzo de Medici ruler of Florence
• Pope Innocent VIII

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