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1492






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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 15th century
  • 16th century
  • Decades:
  • 1480s
  • 1490s
  • 1500s
  • 1510s
  • Years:
  • 1490
  • 1491
  • 1492
  • 1493
  • 1494
  • 1495
  • 1492 in various calendars
    Gregorian calendar1492
    MCDXCII
    Ab urbe condita2245
    Armenian calendar941
    ԹՎ ՋԽԱ
    Assyrian calendar6242
    Balinese saka calendar1413–1414
    Bengali calendar899
    Berber calendar2442
    English Regnal yearHen. 7 – 8 Hen. 7
    Buddhist calendar2036
    Burmese calendar854
    Byzantine calendar7000–7001
    Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
    4189 or 3982
        — to —
    壬子年 (Water Rat)
    4190 or 3983
    Coptic calendar1208–1209
    Discordian calendar2658
    Ethiopian calendar1484–1485
    Hebrew calendar5252–5253
    Hindu calendars
     - Vikram Samvat1548–1549
     - Shaka Samvat1413–1414
     - Kali Yuga4592–4593
    Holocene calendar11492
    Igbo calendar492–493
    Iranian calendar870–871
    Islamic calendar897–898
    Japanese calendarEntoku 4 / Meiō1
    (明応元年)
    Javanese calendar1409–1410
    Julian calendar1492
    MCDXCII
    Korean calendar3825
    Minguo calendar420 before ROC
    民前420年
    Nanakshahi calendar24
    Thai solar calendar2034–2035
    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.

    1492 is considered to be a significant year in the history of the West, Europe, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Spain, and the New World, among others, because of the number of significant events that took place.

    The events which propelled the year into Western consciousness, listed below, include the completion of the Reconquista of Spain, Europe's (Spain) discovery of the New World, and the expulsion of Jews from Spain.

    Events[edit]

    January 2Muhammad XII, last Moorish Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella.
    October 12Columbus reaches the Americas for Spain.

    Known dates[edit]

    Unknown dates[edit]

    Births[edit]

    Queen Marguerite de Navarre
    Duchess Sabina of Bavaria

    Deaths[edit]

    Lorenzo de' Medici
    King Casimir IV Jagiellon
    Pope Innocent VIII
    Saint Beatrice of Silva

    Exact date unknown[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ Elizabeth Nash (October 13, 2005). Seville, Cordoba, and Granada: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-19-518204-0.
  • ^ "La conquista de Granada por los Reyes Católicos". National Geographic. November 16, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  • ^ Brekelmans, Christianus; Saebo, Magne; Sæbø, Magne; Haran, Menahem; Fishbane, Michael A.; Ska, Jean Louis; Machinist, Peter (1996). Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation: II: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 283. ISBN 9783525539828.
  • ^ "Turkey Virtual Jewish History Tour". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
  • ^ "Probing Question: Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? | Penn State University". www.psu.edu. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  • ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  • ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 189–192. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  • ^ Lawrence M. Greenberg (1987). United States Army Unilateral and Coalition Operations in the 1965 Dominican Republic Intervention. Analysis Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History. p. 1.
  • ^ Puk Wing-kin (November 20, 2015). The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China: The Story of the Ming Salt Certificate. BRILL. p. 48. ISBN 9789004306400. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  • ^ A. J. Krailsheimer (1966). Three Sixteenth-century Conteurs. Oxford University Press. p. 11.
  • ^ "Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, duca di Urbino | Italian ruler". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  • ^ Fryde, E. B (July 1, 1984). "Humanism and Renaissance Historiography". A&C Black. p. 122. ISBN 9780826427502.
  • ^ David Williamson (1986). Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain. Webb & Bower. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-86350-101-2.
  • ^ Kenneth Meyer Setton (1976). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. American Philosophical Society. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-87169-127-9.
  • ^ Pietro Allegretti (2006). Piero Della Francesca. Random House Incorporated. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8478-2810-4.
  • External links[edit]


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