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1492. The year 1492 was an important year in the history of the world. It was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar. The most important events centred around Spain. Muslim forces were finally expelled (sent away) from Spain. This ended 780 years of Muslim control in Al-Andalus.
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were intended to reconquer Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after it had been taken by force centuries earlier.
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Feb 26, 2024 · 2000- Timeline. American Pop Culture. 1492-1524. 1492 Columbus lands at San Salvador (Bahamas) Columbus in the Americas by William Least Heat-Moon; Lois Wallace. ISBN: 9780471211891. Publication Date: 2002. The Conquest of Paradise by Kirkpatrick Sale. Call Number: E112.SA32 1990.
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Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were a period of about 1000 years in European history that started around the year 476 CE, when the Western Roman Empire ended, [1] and continued until around the time that Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492. Sometimes, 1453 is used instead for the end since the Byzantine Empire fell that year.
Sep 2, 2011 · The year 1492 has always been a significant year in his understanding of world history, forever associated with Columbus’s discovery of a sea route to America, which united civilisations by transforming the Atlantic from an insuperable barrier into a highway of trade and ideas. But in 1492 the author gives the year added global significance.
