After the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas was assigned to the lands ; stemming from this, " Sea of the Antilles " is a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

* 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.

After his death in 1492, his heirs were deposed by General Muhammad Ture, a Muslim of Soninke origins.

After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, women became virtually the only source of Jewish ritual and tradition in the Catholic world in a phenomenon known as crypto-Judaism.

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

After the 1492 Alhambra decree, which resulted in the majority of Granada's Jewish population being expelled, the Jewish quarter ( ghetto ) was demolished to make way for new Catholic and Castilian institutions and uses.

After 1492 the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus rendered desirable a delimitation of the Spanish and Portuguese spheres of exploration.

After 1492, this focus shifted to the Atlantic Ocean by routes south around the Cape of Good Hope, and by trans-Atlantic trade.

After the expulsion of Jews and Muslims in 1492 from Spain and Portugal, conversos continued to be suspect in times of social strain.

After Christopher Columbus reached the New World in 1492 and brought the first samples of Capsicum frutescens, the name malagueta was then taken to the new chilli " pepper ".

After arriving at Cuba, which he supposed to be the Asian coast, Columbus sent de Torres and the sailor Rodrigo de Jerez for an expedition inland on November 2, 1492.

After the expulsion of the Islamic rule from Spain during the reconquista which ended by 1492, many prominent rabbis found their way to Safed, among them the Kabbalists Isaac Luria and Moshe Kordovero ; Joseph Caro, the author of the Shulchan Aruch and Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, composer of the Sabbath hymn " Lecha Dodi ".

After the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 and the expulsion of Jews from Spain ( 1492 ) and Portugal ( 1498 ), many Jews made their way to the Holy Land.

After 10 years of many battles the Granada War ended in 1492 when the Emir Boabdil surrendered the keys of the Alhambra Palace in Granada to the Castilian soldiers.

After the 1492 death of Konrad Biały Młodszy, last of the local Piast dynasty, the duchy was sold to the Bohemian Poděbrady dynasty.

After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews settled in Thessaloniki ( known in this period as Salonica or Selanik ), which became the main Jewish centre of the empire.

After the expulsion of the Sephardi Jews from Spain in 1492, the exiles took the leading position in most Arab and Ottoman countries, and the local pronunciation of Hebrew assimilated to Sephardi Hebrew in many respects, in particular the pronunciation of the vowels.

After 1492, when the north Atlantic Ocean began to be routinely sailed, and became more accurately mapped, depictions of Antillia gradually disappeared.

After Lorenzo's death in 1492, Giuliano visited Loreto, and built the dome of the Basilica of the Madonna, in spite of serious difficulties arising from its defective piers, which were already built.

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

After the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337 – 1453 ) and the Treaty of Picquigny ( 1475 ) – its official end date – in 1492 and 1493, Charles VIII of France signed three additional treaties with Henry VII of England, Maximilian I of Habsburg, and Ferdinand II of Aragon respectively at Étaples ( 1492 ), Senlis ( 1493 ) and in Barcelona ( 1493 ).

After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.

After their arrival, the duo took photographs of the wide and deep crater.

After the arrival of missionaries in the late 18th century, many Aleuts became Christian by joining the Russian Orthodox Church.

After Columbus ' arrival, Cuba became a Spanish colony, ruled by a Spanish governor in Havana.

After World War II, with the arrival of electronics for reading chords and looking in tables of " codes ", the postal sorting offices started to research chordic solutions to be able to employ people other than trained and expensive typists.

After closing the briefcase, he dictated his demands: $ 200, 000 in " negotiable American currency "; four parachutes ( two primary and two reserve ); and a fuel truck standing by in Seattle to refuel the aircraft upon arrival.

) After his arrival in China, he preached in the provinces of Xan-si and Fi-Kien.

" After their arrival, Hengist invites Vortigern to see his new buildings and the newly arrived soldiers.

After the Portuguese arrival in the area in the 16th century, the next significant Western contact was the arrival of David Livingstone along the shore of Lake Malawi in 1859.

After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.

After the arrival of the Spanish, coca cultivation increased and its use became more common and widespread.

After Anton's arrival, the family business began to expand rapidly, resulting in the foundation in 1907 of the N. V. Philips ’ Metaalgloeilampfabriek ( the Philips Lightwire-bulb Factory Inc ) in Eindhoven, followed in 1912 by the foundation of the N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken.

After 1800, ships from plague-countries ( or with foul bills ) were enabled to perform their quarantine on arrival in the Medway instead of taking a Mediterranean port on the way for that purpose ; and about the same time an extensive lazaret was built on Chetney Hill near Chatham at an expense of £ 170, 000, which was almost at once condemned owing to its marshy foundations, and the materials sold for £ 15, 000.

After their arrival in the destination country, their illegal status puts them at the mercy of their smugglers, which often force the migrants to work for years in the illegal labor market to pay off the debts incurred as a result of their transportation.

After his arrival in England, where he was to spend the rest of his life, Alma-Tadema's career was one of continued success.

Dali ’ s arrival in New York was one of the catalysts in the development of that city as a world art center in the post-War years. After the move, Dalí returned to the practice of Catholicism.

After November 1942 and the arrival of Italian troops occupying the city, a certain ambivalence remained among the population, many recent immigrants of Italian ancestry.

After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.

After the arrival of the Middle Age newcomers ( see below ), as growing population density necessitated higher crop yields, irrigated rice paddies emerged in Betsileo country by 1600 and were complemented with terraced paddies throughout Imerina a century later.

After these prehistoric Ursids went extinct during the last glacial period 10, 000 years ago, black bears were probably the only bear present in much of North America until the arrival of brown bears to the rest of the continent.

After receiving word of the arrival of the Muslims, Pelayo and his companions hurriedly crossed the Piloña River and headed toward the narrow, easily defended valley of Auseva mountain, and took refuge in one of its caves, Covadonga.

After Bunker Hill, Putnam progressed to temporary command of the American forces in New York, while waiting for the arrival on April 13, 1776 of the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General George Washington.

After working several years as a director of amateur theatrical groups and an entertainment director at summer resorts, he scored his first Broadway hit with Once in a Lifetime ( 1930 ), a farce about the arrival of the sound era in Hollywood.

After the arrival of Europeans, they enabled early exploration and faster communications between southeastern Australia and Europe via the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.