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1492 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

    1492
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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 the Alhambra decree expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.

August 3 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

August 3 - The Jews are expelled from Spain.

August 11 - Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 212th pope.

Sultan Bayazid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning about the expulsion of Jews from Spain, dispatched the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (currently in Greece) and Izmir (currently in Turkey).*

October 12 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The Italian explorer believes he has reached the East Indies.

October 21 - Christopher Columbus lands on San Salvador Island.

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 were expelled from Sicily.

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

Year 7000 according to the Byzantine Date of Creation and an expected year of Apocalypse

The first arboretum to be designed and planted was the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia

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Births

March 4 - Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (died c1540)

April 4 - Ambrosiush 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 religious 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)

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)

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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 (born c1420)

October 25 - Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (born c1455)

November 6 - Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (born c1430)

November 19 - Jami, Persian poet (born 1414)

November 24 - Loys of Gruuthuse, earl of Winchester (born c1427)

Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born 1426)

Casimir IV of Poland (born 1427)

Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect (born c1450)

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