Fall of Granada
January 2, 1492
After a ten-year siege, the last Muslim ruler of al-Andalus, Muhammad XII Boabdil, handed the keys of the Alhambra to Ferdinand and Isabella and rode weeping out of the city. Eight hundred years of Iberian Islam ended in a handshake in a courtyard of fountains and carved plaster. Europe's southwest changed civilization overnight.
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Also in 1492 (6 other events on record)
- Columbus Makes Landfall · North America · Exploration
- Columbus Sails from Palos · Europe · Exploration
- Alhambra Decree · Europe · Religion
- Lorenzo de Medici Dies · Europe · Politics
- Rodrigo Borgia Elected Alexander VI · Europe · Religion
- Nebrija's Castilian Grammar Published · Europe · Culture
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.