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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
"Christopher Columbus" is the English version of Columbus's name. His real name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo. He was the son of a weaver named Domenico Colombo and a seamstress named Susanna Fontanarossa. In 1492 Columbus landed on an island of the Bahamas, the first European to do so. His initial goal was to find a quicker route to Asia ...
1492: Conquest of Paradise é um filme de aventura/drama épico europeu de 1992 dirigido por Ridley Scott e escrito por Roselyne Bosch, que conta a história da descoberta do Novo Mundo pelo explorador genovês Cristóvão Colombo (Gérard Depardieu) e o efeito que isso teve sobre os povos ameríndios.
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 ...
The Granada War (Spanish: Guerra de Granada), also called Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1481–1492, [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] was a series of military campaigns ...
1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic adventure movie. This movie tells a fictionalized tale of Christopher Columbus and the New World. Christopher Columbus is played by Gérard Depardieu. The movie opened in theaters in October 1992 under a PG-13 rating in the United States. It got mixed reviews.
Using an estimate of approximately 37 million people in Mexico, Central and South America in 1492 (including 6 million in the Aztec Empire, 5–10 million in the Mayan States, 11 million in what is now Brazil, and 12 million in the Inca Empire), the lowest estimates give a population decrease from all causes of 80% by the end of the 17th ...
