Fall of Granada
The Reconquista ends; that same year Spain expels its Jews
After a ten-year war, the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella accepted the surrender of Granada, the last Muslim state in Iberia. Its fall completed the Reconquista; the same year Spain expelled its Jews.
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1492: Granada fell in January, Columbus reached the Americas in October, and in November the Ensisheim meteorite fell in Alsace — one of Europe's oldest witnessed falls.
Rus threw off the Horde in 1480 and Spain completed the Reconquista in 1492: two centuries-long struggles ended almost together.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 14 years earlier
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 12 years earlier
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 9 years later
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 4 years earlier
Asia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 6 years later
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 19 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — same year
Alive at the time
- Christopher Columbus (aged 41)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 40)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 19)
- Michelangelo (aged 17)
- Martin Luther (aged 9)
- Ivan III (aged 52)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 41)
- Henry VII (aged 35)
- Maximilian I (aged 33)
- Moctezuma II (aged 26)