1492 - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

This page relates to the year 1492 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Arrived of Christophe Colomb, party of Palos the August 3rd in company of the brothers Martin and Vincent Pinzón on board the Pinta, of Niña and the Santa María. The October 12th, they reach the island of Guanahani (the Bahamas), baptized San Salvador, then large the the Antilles, Cuba (October 28th) and Haiti which they call Juana and Espanola. In Haiti, they at the height leave a garrison of 39 men of Navidad builds the December 25th with the remains of Santa Maria failed, with for mission of discovering and of storing gold.

With the the Bahamas, Colomb meets the Indians Arawak. They live in village communities and practice the culture of corn, the yam and the manioc. They can slip by and to weave but do not know the horse and do not use animals for the ploughing. They are unaware of steel, but carry small gold jewels to the ears. It calls them the Indiens , because it wanted to go to India. As soon as it arrives, it sends a letter to its king, saying " people from here are good to go in the mines or to go to cut wood, they do not ask anything exchanges some, and do not eat beaucoup."

the discovery of the American continent by Europeans marks for certain authors the beginning of the modern times, which are completed with the French revolution.

Arrived at the the Maghreb of Jewish Séfarades driven out Spain, followed many marranes during the 16th century. They settle with Oran, Tlemcen, Tangier, Fès (which become a true center of reconversion for the exiled marranes), Bône, Constantine, Tunis, Kairouan, and further with Ouargla and in the Mzab, the island of Jerba and in the small island of Kerkennah, where Juifs currently speak Spanish about 1492.

At the XVIe-17th century, the Iberian Juifs of the the Maghreb are known as “Jews with the beret”, different from Jewish autochtones the “ with the turban”. They keep on the Spanish dress a long time and speak the Judeo-Spanish, opposite with judéo-Arabic. The séfarades cultivated, intellectual, rich, hold the top of the trade and the diplomacy. The Arab chiefs employ some in their councils and their offices.

January 2nd: The Arab troops of Grenade are beaten by the Spanish . Ferdinand II of Aragon seizes the city, it is the last episode of the Reconquista which puts an end to the Moslem presence in Spain. The king Boabdil (Abou abd Allah) gives the keys of the city to the Spanish sovereigns, who guarantee to the population the right to practice their religion freely.
March 31st: Decree of Alhambra, carrying the expulsion of the Jewish S of Spain by the Kings Catholiques, Isabelle the Catholic and Ferdinand II of Aragon, which leave them until the July 31st to convert with the Christianisme or to leave the country. 150 000 choose conversion, 150 000 with 200 000 the exile in Navarre, with the Portugal, in Italy, North Africa or the Eastern Mediterranean. This decree remained officially in force until 1967.
April 17th: Signature of the capitulations of Santa Fe allowing Christophe Colomb to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
June 7th: Died of Casimir IV Jagellon. Beginning of the Golden age of the Poland (fine in 1572).

Beginning of the reign of Jean Ier Albert Jagellon (1459-1501), king of Poland.
Beginning of the reign of Alexandre Ier Jagellon, large-prince de Lituanie (fine in 1501).
Ivan III of Moscow benefits from the disorders between Lithuania and Poland with died of Casimir IV of Poland to invade the Lithuania with the assistance of the khan of the Crimea, Mengli Giray.

July 7th, Brittany: Charles VIII of France is committed maintaining the taxes traditional voted by the Breton ones and the right for the Breton ones to be judged by their own judicial bodies.
August 11th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Rodrigo Borgia under the name of Alexandre VI (fine in 1503).
November 3rd: Peace of Etaples between Charles VIII and Henri VII of England. France buys for 745 000 ecus the non-intervention of London in Brittany.
November 7th: One of most formidable the Météorite S falls to Ensisheim in Alsace (Germany at the time of the fact, France currently) (127 kg).
October 12th: Discovery official of America by Christophe Colomb (believing initially that it is about India), at the time of its first voyage (which finishes in 1493).

Rising of Bruges and Ghent (fine in 1495).
the pope Alexandre VI exonerates Pic of Mirandole of any charge of heresy.
Jean de Médicis, second wire of Laurent Splendid the, is named cardinal at the fourteen years age.
Establishment of the Holy Office in Sardinia.
Arrived at London of some driven out Jews of Spain provided with bill of exchanges near the local Spanish merchants (1492-1498).
Sixty thousand Spanish Jews, take refuge with the Portugal: richest on a purely final basis, others while promising to move on the Portuguese places of the Morocco.
the Chief rabbi Moshe Capsali asks for to the sultan Bayezid II of accommodate the Iberian Jewish refugees. They settle with Constantinople and Salonique. They exert initially as merchants detailing, then develop their business and compete with the Venetian Ragusains merchants, Armenians and. They bring in its cities printing works, the silk and woolen manufacturing industries, and certain noise the trade secret of the field artillery mountings.

May 8th: Publication with Naples (Italy), by Josué Solomon Soncino and Joseph Ibn Piso of the first edition of the Mishnah supplements, including/understanding the comment of Maïmonide and its introduction on the development of the oral law.
Peak of Mirandole: “ the man is able all to include/understand, but cannot find happiness on ground. ”
Publication of the first grammar of the Castilian (and the first grammar of a modern European language) by the Latinist Antonio de Nebrija.

With Milan, Bramante carries out the chorus of Holy-Marie-of-Graces, in central plan with cupola (end in 1498).
Construction of the Jesus church to Setubal (Portugal) by Boitac.

the German geographer Martin Behaim builds with Nuremberg the first terrestrial sphere between 1487 and 1492. The Japan is in the place of the Mexico, on the same parallel as the Canary islands. Behaim introduces the Astrolabe aboard ships.
the Jewish astronomer Zacuto, professor at the university of Salamanque, takes refuge with the Portugal. He is the author of perpetual Almanac , treated written in Hebrew, exposing the calculation angular height of the sun.
Flying machine of Léonard de Vinci.
June 26th: Antoine of City, lord of Domjulien, carries out the first forwarding of alpinism known on the Mont Switches and a report leaves some.

Antoine Héroët, French poet.
Michelangelo Anselmi ( lo Scalabrino ), Italian painter mannerist of the school of Parma. († 1556).

April 8th: Laurent de Médicis, known as Splendid the , prince of the republic of Florence
June 7th: Kazimierz Jagellonczyk (Casimir IV Jagellon), king of Poland and Large-Duke of Lithuania (° November 30th 1427)
July 25th: the Innocent Pope VIII
October 12th: the painter Italy N Piero della Francesca in Arezzo.
November 1st: Rene d' Alençon, duke of Alençon.
Cristoforo Landino, humanistic and poet Florentin (born in 1424), author of the Disputations camalduléennes .

Be-X-old: 1492 Map-bms: 1492 Simple: 1492

Random links: