Alhambra Decree
March 31, 1492
Ferdinand and Isabella signed an edict giving Spain's Jews four months to convert or leave. Between eighty and two hundred thousand left, carrying the language of medieval Castile into Ottoman Salonika, Amsterdam, and Fez, where their descendants would still speak it five hundred years later. Spain lost its oldest international community in a single season.
In context
Also in 1492 (6 other events on record)
- Fall of Granada · Europe · War
- Columbus Makes Landfall · North America · Exploration
- Columbus Sails from Palos · Europe · Exploration
- Lorenzo de Medici Dies · Europe · Politics
- Rodrigo Borgia Elected Alexander VI · Europe · Religion
- Nebrija's Castilian Grammar Published · Europe · Culture
Before and after in Europe
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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