• Year 1492 (MCDXCII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. 1492 is considered to be a significant...
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  • 1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, written by Roselyne Bosch and starring Gérard Depardieu...
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  • his 1492 landing in the Americas. In addition, the fanfare for 1492 Pictures was composed by Hans Zimmer. In addition to various Columbus films, 1492 Pictures...
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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...
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    1492 – 14 September 1495) was the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth was born on 2 July 1492 at...
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    Aeroflot Flight 1492 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Moscow–Sheremetyevo to Murmansk, Russia. On 5 May 2019, the Sukhoi...
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    Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic...
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    Events from the year 1492 in Spain. Monarch(s): the Catholic Monarchs: King Ferdinand II, Queen Isabella I John III of Navarre, Catherine of Navarre The...
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    head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death in 1503. Born into the prominent Borgia family in Xàtiva...
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  • 1490s BC (redirect from 1492 BC)
    BC to December 31, 1490 BC. Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC–1492 BC). 1500 BC: Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated...
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  • The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 is a 1972 book on the Columbian exchange by Alfred W. Crosby. Various academic authorities...
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    (Spanish: Guerra de Granada) was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand...
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  • States: 1492–present. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. ISBN 0-06-083865-5. Zinn, Howard (2003). A People's History of the United States: 1492–present...
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    1570) 1499 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Spanish composer (died 1571) November 6, 1492 – Antoine Busnois, composer and poet of the Burgundian School January 28...
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    began to decline with the Christian Reconquista campaign to retake Spain. In 1492, the Alhambra Decree by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain called for the expulsion...
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  • "1492" is the first song on Counting Crows' 2008 album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings. Adam Duritz announced in a voicemail message to his fans on January...
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    Christopher Columbus (category 1492 in North America)
    Ferdinand II, agreed to sponsor a journey west. Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships and made landfall in the Americas on 12 October, ending...
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  • World in 1492 is a 1992 children's history book that discusses various aspects of world history up to 1492. Booklist, reviewing The World in 1492, wrote...
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    Michelangelo sculpted the reliefs Madonna of the Stairs (1490–1492) and Battle of the Centaurs (1491–1492), the latter based on a theme suggested by Poliziano...
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    Carlo di Cosimo de' Medici (1428 or 1430 – 29 May 1492) was an Italian priest. A member of the powerful Medici family, he became a senior clergyman and...
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    culminated with the Christian seizure of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in 1492. The dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479...
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    The 1492 papal conclave (6–11 August) was convened after the death of Pope Innocent VIII (25 July 1492). It was the first papal conclave to be held in...
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    compensation of individual claims. As eventually codified in 28 U.S.C. § 1492, either House of Congress may refer a bill to the Chief Judge of the court...
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    the site of one of the first European forts in the Americas, La Navidad (1492–1493), as well as the first settlement and proper town, La Isabela (1493–1500)...
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    Americans and Chamorros. The European colonization of the Americas that began in 1492 resulted in a precipitous decline in the size of the Native American population...
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    12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus commanded his three ships: La Pinta, La Niña and the Santa María, discovering Cuba on 27 October 1492, and landing...
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    Nazarí) was an Arab dynasty that ruled the Emirate of Granada from 1232 to 1492. It was the last Muslim dynasty in the Iberian Peninsula. Twenty-three sultans...
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    Iberian Peninsula, the Reconquista concluded with the fall of Granada in 1492, ending over seven centuries of Islamic rule in the south-western peninsula...
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    Conductor 1492 is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros...
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  • 1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 music score to the film of the same name by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis. The film, a recount of...
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