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1492
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Year 1492 (MCDXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

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October 12 Christopher Columbus arrives in the Americas from Spain.
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1492 is considered to be a significant year in the history of the West, Europe, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Spain, and the New World, among others, because of the number of significant events that took place.

The events which propelled the year into Western consciousness, listed below, include the completion of the Reconquista of Spain, Europe's (Spain) discovery of the New World, and the expulsion of Jews from Spain.

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January 2 Muhammad XII, last Moorish Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella.

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Births

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Queen Marguerite de Navarre
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Duchess Sabina of Bavaria
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Deaths

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Lorenzo de' Medici
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King Casimir IV Jagiellon
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Pope Innocent VIII
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Saint Beatrice of Silva

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