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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.
A service in a Spanish synagogue, from the Sister Haggadah (c. 1350). The Alhambra Decree would bring Spanish Jewish life to a sudden end. The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the ...
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 ...
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
Crusades include the traditional numbered crusades and other conflicts that prominent historians have identified as crusades. The scope of the term "crusade" first referred to military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to the Holy Land.
Avicii was found dead in the afternoon hours of April 20, 2018, according to a statement from his rep. His tragic death came two years after he announced his retirement from touring in March 2016.
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 ...
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 ...