* 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

* 1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.

Bayezid II was born in Dimetoka Palace ( now Didymoteicho ) in Thrace as the son of Mehmed II ( 1432 – 81 ) and Valide Sultan Mükrime Hatun, the daughter of Süleyman Bey, the sixth ruler of Dulkadirids, who died in 1492.

Eventually, the Knights handed Cem over to Pope Innocent VIII ( 1484 – 1492 ).

* Casimir IV Jagiellon ( 1427 – 1492 ), Polish king

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

* 1549 – Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre ( b. 1492 )

* 1492 31 March – After conquering Granada, the Catholic Monarchs sign the Alhambra decree ordering the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, to be take effect from 31 July 1492.

* 1492 Summer – After the death of the former Duke, his son and heir, Juan Alfonso Perez de Guzman, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia saw his lordship over Gibraltar reluctantly renewed by the Catholic Monarchs.

* 1492 – Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.

* 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.

* 1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.

Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492 ) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.

* 1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150, 000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.

At this time, Michelangelo sculpted the reliefs Madonna of the Steps ( 1490 – 1492 ) and Battle of the Centaurs ( 1491 – 1492 ).

Following the breakup of Mali a local leader named Sonni Ali ( 1464 – 1492 ) founded the Songhai Empire in the region of middle Niger and the western Sudan and took control of the trans-Saharan trade.

* 1492 – Jami, Persian poet ( b. 1414 )

* 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

Other confessions had acquired popular, if not legal, legitimacy in the intervening decades and by 1555, the reforms proposed by Luther were no longer the only possibilities of religious expression: Anabaptists, such as the Frisian Menno Simons ( 1492 – 1559 ) and his followers ; the followers of John Calvin, who were particularly strong in the southwest and the northwest ; and the followers of Huldrych Zwingli were excluded from considerations and protections under the Peace of Augsburg.

In 1492 he helped conclude the Peace of Etaples, and in 1493 he was chief commissioner in the negotiations for the famous commercial agreement with the Netherlands which Bacon seems to have been the first to call the Magnus Intercursus.

By 1555, the reforms proposed by Luther were no longer the only possibilities of religious expression: Anabaptists, such as the Frisian Menno Simons ( 1492 – 1559 ) and his followers, the followers of John Calvin, who were particularly strong in the southwest and the northwest, or those followers of Huldrych Zwingli, were excluded from considerations and protections under the Peace of Augsburg.

The Peace of Etaples ( 1492 ) marks, for some, the beginning of the early modern period in France.

The Peace of Etaples was signed in Étaples ( northern France ) between the kings Charles VIII Valois of France and Henry VII Tudor of England on November 3, 1492.

He was first received by Charles VIII of France but in 1492 expelled under the terms of the Treaty of Etaples, in which Charles had agreed not to shelter rebels against the Tudors.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

Rivalry grew over time between him and Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, and on the death of Innocent VIII in 1492 Borgia was elected Pope Alexander VI.

There are reports of contact made before the 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus and the age of discovery between First Nations, Inuit and those from other continents.

The church's tower was built between 1492 and 1531.

The Great Tower was built between 1492 and 1509 by William Orchard, and is an imposing landmark on the eastern approaches to the city centre.

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact hypotheses are those theories that propose interaction between indigenous peoples of the Americas who settled the Americas before 10, 000 BC, and peoples of other continents ( Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania ), which occurred before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean in 1492.

The evolution of this new style of fortification can be seen in transitional forts such as Sarzanello in North West Italy which was built between 1492 and 1502.

* Dalai Lama ( 1492 – 1959, but subordination to Manchu Qing Dynasty between 1720 and 1912 )

Following the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492, and of the Philippines by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, expeditions led by conquistadors in the 16th century established trading routes between these areas under the control of the Crown of Castile ( modern-day Spain ).

Charles of Egmond ( 9 November 1467 in Grave, North Brabant – 30 June 1538 in Arnhem ) was Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen between 1492 and his death.

Having been made Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland in 1492, and having arranged a dispute between the Scots and the Dutch, Elphinstone's later years were mainly spent in the foundation of the University of Aberdeen.

The name more generally describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims ( given the generic name of Moors ), at various times between 711 and 1492, though the boundaries changed constantly in wars with Christian kingdoms.

People who converted to Catholicism were not subject to expulsion, but between 1480 and 1492 hundreds of those who had converted ( conversos and moriscos ) were accused of secretly practising their original religion ( crypto-Judaism or crypto-Islam ) and arrested, imprisoned, interrogated under torture, and in many cases burned to death, in both Castile and Aragon.

A dispute between two leading dynastic families of medieval Ireland, the Butlers, ( Earls of Ormond ) and the FitzGeralds, ( Earls of Kildare ) was resolved in 1492 by a brave act and a magnanimous response.

The three churches were demolished between 1490 and 1492.

On 3 November 1492, the castle was the scene of the signing of the Treaty of Étaples between Charles VIII of France and Henry VII of England.

The chapter did not accept this and elected Nicolaus von Tüngen as bishop, which led to the War of the Priests ( Warmia Stift Feud, 1467 – 1479 ) between King Casimir IV Jagiellon ( 1447 – 1492 ) and Nikolaus von Tüngen ( 1467 – 89 ) who was supported by the Teutonic Order and King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

This classification was not new, except for setting the Middle Ages between 476 and 1492, which he as well as his colleague and rival in Göttingen Johann Christoph Gatterer suggested roughly at the same time.

The Columbian Exchange also known as the Grand Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations ( including slaves ), communicable disease, and ideas between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

She was anointed and crowned Queen of France at Saint-Denis on 8 February 1492 ; she was forbidden by her husband to use the title Duchess of Brittany, which became a bone of contention between the two.

Another migration of Iberian Jews took place between 1391 and 1492, by the Alhambra decree edit of expulsion.

Pedro Arias Dávila served as soldier in wars against Moors at Granada, between 1486 and 1492, in Spain, and in North Africa, under Pedro Navarro intervening in the Conquest of Oran, now in Algeria.

In many Arab countries, older Arabic-speaking Jewish communities distinguished between themselves and the newer arrivals speaking Judeo-Romance languages, that is, Sephardim expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497.

Busnois remained in the employ of the Burgundian court until 1482, but nothing exact is known about his exploits between then and 1492, when he died.