Crucial Year

The crucial Année is a term employed of the Spanish Historiographie to indicate the famous Year of grace 1492 .

A collusion of events

It is the year of the taken Grenade in Andalusia.

  • This year sees, in Spain, the end of a process of reconquest which lasted seven centuries, which seals its Moyen-âge . This same country inaugurates the same year the discovery of a continent, crowning the meeting of the Humanité on a world level. 1492 thus project the Royaume of Castille and its allies, " Espagnes " , in the modern times , with the European apron.

  • to affirm its political program and demographic (Limpieza of sangre), the seizure of the Catholic church through the mission of the Sainte Enquiry gives him strong capacities, at the same time temporal and spiritual: the consequences will be important for Spain in the European competition of the concert of the nations .

    • expulsion of the Sépharade S of Spain, some will contribute to the financial rise of the Netherlands, then under Spanish domination, others will go in the Maghreb;
    • expulsion of the Morisque S and not converted (the later consequence: 1502 or 1525 according to their localization).
    • Auto-da-fe S of the books in Arab accumulated in Grenade, not focal of Reconquista, by the bishop lately named: these are eight centuries of Islamic culture which leave in smoke, including retranscribed volumes of the Greek old and coming from the texts of the thinkers of the Greek Antiquité.

  • It is also the year of discovered America by Christophe Colomb in the name of the Christian kings and of the kingdom of Spain, although at the time, he thought only of having discovered a new road towards the India S.

Coexistence of the Three monotheisms until the crucial year

Spain exemplairement Christian, guarantor of the Occident and rampart vis-a-vis the Africa, were to promote strong personalities, after large the " Arab " the Caliph S builders of Cordoue of the 10th century or the thinker of Cordoue of 12th century, Averroès. The peninsula missionary thus gives to the world medieval great names, holy Dominique de Guzmán, the founder of the Ordre of the Preachers, holy Raimond Lull, the evangelist of the the Maghreb, also philosophical and erudite, and then still holy Raimond de Peñafort, the organizer of the " Arguments " with the Jewish theologists. Because this Spain of the Three Religions of course had its Juifs, without which it could not have been so complete, against which it wanted to also fight and that it decides to drive out or assimilate, one day of 1492.

Posterity

500 years commemoration

The 500 years commemoration of the crucial year: 1992 was marked in Spain by many celebrations and events:
  • the World Fair of Seville.
  • the inauguration of the line of train at high speed Madrid - Seville (the first in Spain)
  • Olympic Games of Barcelona.
  • European cultural capitality with Madrid.

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