1492

Events of the year 1492 AD:

Events

 * January 2: Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. Thus, Spain is united as one kingdom.
 * January 23: Pentateuch first printed.
 * March 26: Giovanni de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) becomes a Cardinal.
 * March 31: Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree ordering all Jews and Muslims from Spain by July 31 unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
 * August 1: The remaining Jews and Muslims of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon
 * August 3:: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
 * August 11: Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII.
 * Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning about the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain, dispatched the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (currently in Greece) and İzmir (currently in Turkey).
 * October 12: Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani. The Italian explorer believes he has reached the East Indies.
 * December 31: About 100,000 Jews were expelled from Sicily.

Births

 * April 4]: Ambrosius Blarer, German religious reformer (died 1564)
 * September 12: Berthold Haller, Swiss reformer (died 1536)

Deaths

 * July 25: Pope Innocent VIII (born 1432)
 * October 25: Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (born c 1455)