What is the year 1492 so important in history?

Answer 1

Many think the only importance of 1492 was Columbus's first voyage. But actually there were two other VERY important events in Spain that same year, involving the Jewish and Muslim (Moor) population of Spain.

1) Conquest of Granada (January 2) the last Muslim stronghold in Spain, completing the reconquest of Spain from Muslim/Moor rule. (This set the stage for a process that ended with the expulsion of Muslims from Spain by the early 17th century. Actually, the laws were not rigorously enforced at first, and expulsion was not earnestly pursued till after a 1568 rebellion of a group of "Moriscos" [Moorish converts], appealing to the Ottoman Empire for help.)

2) Edict of Expulsion (issued by Ferdinand and Isabella from Granada, March 31) - gave the Jews four months to convert to Christianity or leave Spain (Note that this effort had been underway for some years, and that the "Spanish Inquisition" BEGAN as an investigation of the reality of Jewish "conversions".)

It was only after these events that the monarchs of Spain turned their attention to Columbus's journey of exploration. It is claimed (in the article below, for instance) that his voyage was actually financed by booty from the fall of Granada, and from loans made by Jewish converts [real or not] to Christianity, so it depended on these other two events (though they had other very large consequences as well). I'm not so sure about the first part though-- I believe the financing was basically done through foreign bankers.... though not having the high costs of fighting the Moors may have helped.

For a start, check the following article
"The Significance of 1492 to the Jews and Muslims of Spain" by David Fintz Altabe
in Hispania (September 1992 pp. 728-731)
http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/ALTABE01.ART

compare:
http://countrystudies.us/spain/7.htm

Answer 2

What Happened In 1492

Answer 3

Year 1492

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Margaret of Burgundy and the French and Scottish Kings recognize Perkin Warbeck as Richard IV

The treary of Etaples concludes war with France

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Christopher Columbus took a wrong turn off the Canary Isles (lol)

Answer 7

1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, hit a rock and discovered America.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Timeline - 1492

- Portugal King Manuel I, bedazzled by the Moorish tiles at the Alhambra in Spain, brought home enough to decorate his palace in Sintra.
- Russia + under Ivan III + the Great invades Lithuania.
- Profession of publisher emerges, consisting of typefounder, printer, and bookseller.
- Lorenzo de Medici dies
- Nuremberg geographer Behaim constructs first terrestrial globe.
- Leonardo da Vinci draws a flying machine.
- Jews began arriving in Morocco after their expulsion from Spain.
- Sephardic Jews were welcomed by the Ottoman Empire after their expulsion from Spain.
- Some 11 million African people were brought to the New World as slaves during this period. u.1870
Jan 02 - Sultan Muhammad XI in Granada surrenders to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I ending Muslim rule in Spain.
Mar 31 - King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, except those willing to convert to Christianity. Jews numbered about 80,000 and it was estimated that about half chose to convert.
Apr 17 - A contract was signed by Christopher Columbus + and a representative of Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, giving Columbus a commission to seek a westward ocean passage to find the Indies.
Aug 03 - Christopher Columbus departed Palos, Spain, with the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina on a voyage that would take him to the present-day Americas. The Santa Maria was formally listed as La Gallicia and the Nina as Santa Clara. He sailed across the Ocean Sea, as the Atlantic was then called, and headed for Cipangu, i.e. Japan.
Aug 11 - Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia Lanzol + a.61 becomes Pope Alexander VId.1503.He siphoned off untold riches from Church funds.
Oct 12 - Columbus' + expedition sites land, an island of the Bahamas which he named San Salvador, called Guanahani by the local Taino people. Pinta's lookout, Rodrigo de Triana, saw a white cliff in the moonlight on the morning.
Dec 05 - Columbus discovered Haiti. His flagship Santa Maria was wrecked off the coast and he established the settlement of La Navidad where he left 40 crew members with instructions to obtain gold and find its source. When he returned on his 2nd voyage he found the town burned and all the Spaniards dead.
Dec 06 - Columbus lands on the island of Santo Domingo in search of gold. It was a Sunday and named the island Dominica.

Answer 10

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue