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Position:Home>History> Besides Columbus' voyage, name another important event that occurred in 1492Question: Besides Columbus' voyage, name another important event that occurred in 1492!? First to name the event I'm thinking of will get Best Answer, so please don't bother copying and pasting wikipedia articles or anything of the sort!.
I've almost reached 1,492 answers given on Y!A, so I thought I'd have some fun and do a little trivia with the dates that correspond with my number of answers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: In Spain the last Moorish city, Grenada, fell-it was the end of the Reconquista or the expulsion/conquest of the Moorish states in the Iberian peninsular!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Leonardo Da Vinci creates the Vitruvian Man!.Www@QuestionHome@Com January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege!. Christopher Columbus is in Alhambra, and sees the Moorish king come out of the city gates and kiss the hands of the Spanish king, queen and prince!. January 6 - Ferdinand and Isabella enter into Granada!. January 23 - The Pentateuch is 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; 150,000 flee!. August 3 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas!. 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, dispatches the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (currently in Greece) and ?zmir (currently in Turkey)!.[1] October 12 - Christopher Columbus' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, but believes he has reached the East Indies!. 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 are expelled from Sicily!. Casimir IV Jagiello, of the Jagiello Royal House, ends his reign (1427-1492)!. The first arboretum to be designed and planted is 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 is created!. In Ming Dynasty China, the commercial transportation of grain to the northern border in exchange for salt certificates is monetarized!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |