* 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 – 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 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.

* 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.

1492 ; that is, after the Reconquista, until established as a national language in the times of Louis XIV, ca.

* 1492: Christopher Columbus lands in the New World, the Reconquista is completed in the Iberian Peninsula

Meanwhile the Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery of the peninsula, a process called the Reconquista, which was concluded in 1492 with the fall of Granada.

When used as a historical period in traditional Spanish and Portuguese historiography, the term Reconquista has often been used to refer to a period extending from 718 ( or 722 according to other sources ) to 1492, when the last remaining Islamic state in Iberia, the Emirate of Granada, was defeated.

Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Reconquista with a war against the Emirate of Granada that started in 1482 and ended with Granada's complete annexation in early 1492.

* 1492: Treaty of Granada completes the Reconquista.

After the Reconquista ( reconquest ) by the Reyes Católicos (" Catholic Monarchs ") in 1492, some portions were used by the Christian rulers.

* 1492: Boabdil's surrender of Granada marks the end of the Spanish Reconquista and Al-Andalus.

The 1492 surrender of the Islamic Emirate of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs is one of the most significant events in Granada's history as it marks the completion of the Reconquista of Al-Andalus.

Neighboring Spain would not complete their Reconquista until 1492 almost 250 years later.

The Spanish crown extended the Reconquista effort, completed in Spain in 1492, to non-Catholic people in new territories.

The early modern period is often considered to have begun with such events as the invention of moveable type printing in the 1450s ; the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 ; the end of the Wars of the Roses in 1485 ; the Voyages of Christopher Columbus and the completion of the Reconquista in 1492 or the start of the Protestant Reformation in 1517.

Saadia Gaon, David ben Merwan al-Mukkamas, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas, to name a few, knew of at least some of the Mutazilite work, particularly Avicennism and Averroism, and the Renaissance and the use of empirical methods were inspired at least in part by Arabic translations of Greek, Jewish, Persian and Egyptian works translated into Latin during the Renaissance of the 12th century, and taken during the Reconquista in 1492.

The name derived from the Reconquista ( completed in 1492 ), the reconquest of the territory of the Iberian Peninsula that had been controlled by various Muslim states ( known through much of that time as Al-Andalus ).

Although primarily meant to commemorate the destruction of the Temples, it is also considered appropriate to commemorate other Jewish tragedies that occurred on this day, most notably the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, one of the concluding events of the Iberian Reconquista.

During the centuries of Reconquista ( 711 – 1492 ), the Christian North of the Iberian Peninsula and the Southern Muslim-ruled Al Andalus battled internally and against each other.

In 16th century Spain, following the end of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, Muslims and Jews were persecuted by the Catholic Monarchs and forced to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.

It begins no earlier than 1492, with the end of the Reconquista ( Reconquest ), the sea voyages of Christopher Columbus to the New World, and the publication of Antonio de Nebrija's Gramática de la lengua castellana ( Grammar of the Castilian Language ).

For the first three centuries of Muslim rule, the peninsula's Christian kingdoms in the north were very much on the defensive, but eventually after the break-up of Muslim unity in the 11th century, the Muslims were driven south in a long process that historians term the Reconquista, which ended with their final capitulation in 1492.

Ultimately, Jews and Muslims either converted to Catholicism or were expelled from Spain in 1492 and 1502, following the completion of the Reconquista.

After the defeat of the Muslims during the Christian Reconquista (" Reconquest ") period between 1000 and 1492, Spain became an almost entirely Roman Catholic country.

The Moroccan Sephardi Jews — many of them living in this part of the Maghreb after being expelled from Spain and Portugal in 1492 and 1497 respectively after the end of the Reconquista process — flourished in commerce, profiting from the similarity of Spanish and Ladino language and benefiting from the tax-exempt area in Tangier and a flourishing trading activity in the area.

By 1236 AD, the Reconquista was essentially completed and Europeans had retaken the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims, but the Emirate of Granada, a small Muslim vassal of the Christian Kingdom of Castile, remained in Spain until 1492 AD.