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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.
Business and economy The United States Commerce Department reports the country's 2018 trade deficit was $621 billion (£472.5 bn), the highest since 2008. (BBC News) Economy of the United States Production ends at General Motors' Lordstown Assembly complex in Lordstown, Ohio, United States. (CNN) Dollar Tree announces it will close 390 Family Dollar stores, and rebrand a further 200 Family ...
The Surrender of Granada by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, 1882: Muhammad XII surrenders to Ferdinand and Isabella Gergio Deluci, Christopher Columbus arrives in the Americas in 1492, 1893 painting. The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian calendar dates from 1 January 1401 (represented by the Roman numerals MCDI) to 31 December 1500 ...
6 March – Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (year of birth unknown) c. 21 May – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (born 1442) 1492 7 June – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV of England (born 1437) 20 September – Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick (born 1426) 1493 James Blount, soldier (year of birth unknown) 1495
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
March 6: 35,000 gather on International Unemployment Day and clash with police. August 6: New York Supreme Court associate justice Joseph Force Crater disappears, last seen entering a taxicab. He was declared legally dead in 1939. His mistress Sally Lou Ritz (22) disappeared a few weeks later. Chrysler Building constructed. Carlyle Hotel in ...
March 13, 2020, could be considered the first official day of the pandemic in the US. Masks were seemingly everywhere in just a few short days. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images
Traditionally, Friday the 13th is considered a "cursed" date, but it doesn't have to be. President Johnson signed an executive order preventing gender discrimination on October 13, 1967. The first ...