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1619 or 1238 or 466. Year 1492 ( MCDXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) 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 ...
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1492 was a year in the Julian calendar, most notable for...
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- 1492 (Disambiguation)
1492 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1492nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 492nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 15th century, and the 3rd year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1492, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which ...
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The Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World.
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- Christopher Columbus and Castilian crew (among others)
Voyage in 1492. Many people in Western Europe wanted to find a shorter way to get to Asia. Columbus thought he could get to Asia by sailing west. He did not know about the Western Hemisphere, so he did not realize it would block him from getting to Asia.
Year 1492 (MCDXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
The World in 1492 is a 1992 children's history book that discusses various aspects of world history up to 1492. Reception [ edit ] Booklist , reviewing The World in 1492 , wrote "Despite flashes of insight and some excellent writing, too much of the book settles back into standard historical accounts of rulers, events, and cultures, sometimes ...
