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Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
1492 – Christopher Columbus' first voyage. [1] 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the New World between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal. 1496 – Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled. 1497 – First voyage of John Cabot, searching for the Northwest Passage. [1]
Year 1492 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. 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.
1492. Lorenzo de' Medici King Casimir IV Jagiellon Pope Innocent VIII Saint Beatrice of Silva. January 25 – Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian warlord and freedom-fighting rebel (murdered) (b. 1443) April 8 – Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449) [57] March 19 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1429–1492) (b. 1418)
On October 11 in 1492: Christopher Columbus reached new land across the Atlantic Ocean in the Bahamas. He claimed the land on behalf of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain. Other Events on October 11: ...
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Timeline of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact (47,000 BCE–1492 CE); Timeline of environmental history (15,000 BCE – present); Timeline of country and capital changes (3850 BCE – present)