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| 1491 |
| | The king of France is among those supporting Perkin Warbeck, supposedly a prince from the Tower, in his attempt on the English throne | |
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| 1492 |
| | A French privateer off the west coast of Ghana is the first to plunder a Portuguese vessel carrying home African gold | |
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| 1492 |
| | The army of Ferdinand and Isabella besieges and takes the city of Granada, completing the long reconquest of Spain from the Muslims | |
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| 1492 |
| | Torquemada persuades Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from Spain all Jews (about 160,000) who will not convert to Christianity | |
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| 1492 |
| | Bayazid II, the Turkish sultan, makes a special point of welcoming in Istanbul the Jews expelled from Spain | |
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| 1492 |
| | Rodrigo Borgia, elected pope as Alexander VI, already has four illegitimate children and possibly sires three more while pope | |
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| 1492 |
| | The world's first globe is published by Martin Behaim without showing America, in the very year of Columbus' voyage | |
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| 1492 |
| | Christopher Columbus, together with the brothers Martin and Vicente Pinzón, sails west from Palos in Spain | |
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| 1492 |
| | After sailing for five weeks from the Canaries, Columbus and the Pinzón brothers step ashore in the Bahamas | |
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| 1492 |
| | Columbus and his fellow explorers make landfall on the largest of the Caribbean islands, Cuba | |
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