Spanish Inquisition Established
November 1, 1478
A papal bull at Isabella and Ferdinand's urging authorized a new ecclesiastical court under royal control to investigate conversos suspected of Judaizing. The first tribunal opened in Seville a year later. Its bonfires would light Spain for three centuries, and its techniques would define, in every language, the word inquisition.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.