1492


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Year 1492 (MCDXCII) was a (link will display the full calendar) of the.

Events of 1492

 * -, the last King of , surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
 * - first printed.
 * - and  sign the  expelling all s from  unless they convert to.
 * - The s are expelled from.
 * - sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to.
 * , Frisian warlord and freedom fighting rebel (b. ), is brutally murdered
 * - succeeds  as the 214th, after the.
 * Sultan of the, learning about the expulsion of  from , dispatched the  to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly  to the cities of  (currently in ) and  (currently in ).
 * - ' expedition makes landfall in the and lands on . The  explorer believes he has reached the.
 * - Christopher Columbus lands in.
 * - The,  a 127-kg , lands in a wheat field near the village of  in.
 * - Christopher Columbus becomes the first known an to set foot on the island of.
 * - About 100,000 were expelled from.
 * of Royal House ends reign. (-1492).
 * Year 7000 according to the Byzantine and an expected year of
 * The first arboretum to be designed and planted was the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia.
 * build a in, on the eastern banks of the.
 * 's was created in this year.
 * In, the commercial transportation of grain to the northern border in exchange for salt certificates is monetarized.

Births

 * -, Italian composer (died c)
 * -, German mathematician (died )
 * -, German religious reformer (died )
 * -, queen of (died )
 * -, Italian author (died )
 * -, daughter of (died )
 * -, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (died )
 * -, Duke of Urbino (died )
 * , Swiss reformer (died )
 * , Japanese nobleman (died )
 * , Japanese retainer and tutor of (died )
 * , English physician and zoologist (died )
 * probable
 * (died )
 * , Spanish man of letters (died )
 * , Italian painter (died )

Deaths

 * -, ruler of Florence (born )
 * , King of Poland (born )
 * , Queen of (born )
 * - (born )
 * -, Italian artist (born c)
 * -, Irish bishop (born c)
 * -, French composer and poet (born c)
 * -, Persian poet (born )
 * , Frisian warlord and freedomfighting rebel (b. ), is brutally murdered
 * -, earl of (born c)
 * date unknown
 * (born )
 * , Italian architect (born c)
 * , Italian architect (born c)