Editing 1492 (section)

=== Known dates ===
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Fall of Granada]]: [[Muhammad XII of Granada|Muhammad XII]], the last [[Emirate of Granada|Emir of Granada]], surrenders his city to the army of the [[Catholic Monarchs]] ([[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and [[Isabella I of Castile]]) after a lengthy siege, ending the ten-year [[Granada War]] and the centuries-long [[Reconquista]], and bringing an end to 780 years of [[Islam|Muslim]] control in [[Al-Andalus]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Nash|title=Seville, Cordoba, and Granada: A Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVA1reAI7w0C&pg=PA219|date=13 October 2005|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-518204-0|pages=219}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] &ndash; Ferdinand and Isabella enter [[Granada]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/historia/grandes-reportajes/los-reyes-catolicos-conquistan-granada_6778 |title=La conquista de Granada por los Reyes Católicos |date=16 November 2012 |access-date=26 October 2018 |journal=[[National Geographic]]}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] meets Ferdinand and Isabella at the [[Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos]] in [[Córdoba, Andalusia]], and persuades them to support his Atlantic voyage intended to find a new route to the [[East Indies]].
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Antonio de Nebrija]] publishes ''[[Gramática de la lengua castellana]]'', the first grammar text for the Castilian [[Spanish language]], in [[Salamanca]], which he introduces to the [[Catholic Monarchs]], [[Isabella I of Castile]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]], newly restored to power in [[Andalusia]], as "a tool of empire".
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The ''[[Pentateuch]]'' is first printed.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMlT-FViF40C&pg=PA283|title=Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation: II: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment|first1=Christianus|last1=Brekelmans|first2=Magne|last2=Saebo|first3=Magne|last3=Sæbø|first4=Menahem|last4=Haran|first5=Michael A.|last5=Fishbane|first6=Jean Louis|last6=Ska|first7=Peter|last7=Machinist|publisher=[[Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht]]|year=1996|page=283|isbn=9783525539828}}</ref>
* February 1 &ndash; Discovery of the [[Titulus Crucis]] relic during renovation of [[Santa Croce in Gerusalemme]] Church in Rome.
* [[March 31]] &ndash; Ferdinand and Isabella sign the [[Alhambra Decree]], expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to [[Roman Catholicism]].
* [[April 17]] &ndash; The [[Capitulations of Santa Fe]] are signed between [[Christopher Columbus]] and the [[Crown of Castile]], agreeing on arrangements for his forthcoming voyage.
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Casimir IV Jagiellon]], of the [[Jagiellonian dynasty|Jagiellon]] Royal House, dies, ending his reign over Poland and Lithuania.
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Woodville]], the last living [[Yorkist]] queen consort, dies in England.
* [[August 2]]
** [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|The Jews are expelled from Spain]]; 40,000–200,000 leave. Sultan [[Bayezid II]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], learning of this, dispatches the [[Ottoman Navy]] to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly  to the cities of [[Thessaloniki]] (in modern-day Greece) and [[İzmir]] (in modern-day [[Turkey]]);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Turkey.html|title=Turkey Virtual Jewish History Tour|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref> others settle in [[Sarajevo]].
** The [[Genoa|Genoese]] navigator [[Christopher Columbus]] sails with three ships from [[Palos de la Frontera]], in the service of the [[Crown of Castile]], on his [[Voyages of Christopher Columbus#First voyage (1492–1493)|first voyage]] across the Atlantic Ocean, intending to reach Asia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Probing Question: Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? |publisher=Penn State University |url=https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/probing-question-was-christopher-columbus-jewish/ |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=www.psu.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander VI]] succeeds [[Pope Innocent VIII]] as the 214th pope, after the [[Papal conclave, 1492|1492 papal conclave]], the first held in the [[Sistine Chapel]].
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] sails from [[La Gomera]] in the [[Canary Islands]], his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of England|English]] army [[Siege of Boulogne (1492)|besieges Boulogne]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=135–138|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]]' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on [[Guanahani]], which he calls San Salvador, believing he has reached the [[East Indies]].
* [[October 28]] &ndash; Christopher Columbus lands in [[Holguín_Province|Holguín]], [[Cuba]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Étaples]] is signed between England and France, ending French support for [[Perkin Warbeck]], the pretender to the [[English throne]]. All English-held territory in France (with the exception of [[Calais]]) is returned to France.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/189 189]–192}}</ref>
* [[November 7]] &ndash; The [[Ensisheim (meteorite)|Ensisheim meteorite]], a {{convert|127|kg|lb|abbr=on}} [[meteorite]], lands in a wheat field near the village of [[Ensisheim]] in [[Alsace]].
* [[December 5]] &ndash; Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of [[Hispaniola]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Lawrence M. Greenberg|title=United States Army Unilateral and Coalition Operations in the 1965 Dominican Republic Intervention|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QQQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1987|publisher=Analysis Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; Columbus' ship ''[[Santa María (ship)|Santa María]]'' runs aground off [[Cap-Haïtien]], and is lost.