- Also film, 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
Year 1492 (MCDXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1492
- January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
- January 23 - Pentateuch first printed.
- March 31 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
- July 31 - The Jews are expelled from Spain.
- August 3 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
- Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and freedom fighting rebel (b. 1443), is brutally murdered
- August 11 - Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope, after the 1492 papal conclave.
- Sultan Bayezid 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 İzmir (currently in Turkey).[1]
- October 12 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani. The Italian explorer believes he has reached the East Indies.
- October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
- November 7 - The , 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.
- Russians build a fortress in Ivangorod, on the eastern banks of the Narva river.
- Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man was created in this year.
Columbus' voyage to the Americas is considered one of the most significant journeys in history.
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