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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.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who led four trans-Atlantic voyages—1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502—from Spain. [6] In his 1492 voyage, which was an attempt to find a direct ship route from Europe to Asia, Columbus stumbled across the Bahamas and became the first European explorer to find the Americas. [6]
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.
In the eighty-year Dutch War of Independence, Philip's troops conquered the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent. Antwerp, then the most important port in the world, fell in 1585. [citation needed] The Protestant population was given two years to settle affairs before leaving the city. [166] Many settled in Amsterdam.
The craft was a full-size replica of the Santa María, one of three ships Christopher Columbus used in 1492 during his first voyage to the Americas. The ship was displayed in Columbus from 1991 to 2014, when it had to be relocated due to the Scioto Mile project reshaping the riverbanks.
The Ohio State Library is headquartered in Columbus. [3] 1824: The seat of Franklin County moves from Franklinton to Columbus. [1] 1826: The first public schools are opened in Columbus and Franklinton. [1] 1831: Columbus is connected to the Ohio and Erie Canal through the Columbus Feeder Canal. [2] [1] [4] 1832: The Ohio School for the Deaf is ...
1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, written by Roselyne Bosch and starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver. It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on Indigenous peoples .
1492 was a year in the Julian calendar, most notable for being the year that Christopher Columbus sailed for America. 1492 may also refer to: 1492: Conquest of Paradise, a 1992 movie telling of Columbus's discovery of the new world; 1492 epopea lirica d'America, an opera by Antonio Braga "1492" (song), a 2008 song by the band Counting Crows