• 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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  • 1492 Pictures is an American film production company founded by Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan in 1994. The name is a play on Columbus's...
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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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  • ships at sea that survived the tempests. Observation data for years before 1492 is completely unavailable because Indigenous cultures in North America typically...
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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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    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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  • The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 is a 1972 book by Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian exchange, coining that term and...
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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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    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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    age. However, their fortunes declined with the Christian Reconquista. In 1492, the Alhambra Decree by the Catholic Monarchs expelled Jews from Spain, and...
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    called Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1481–1492, was a series of military campaigns between 1481 and 1492 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella...
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  • 1490s in music (redirect from 1492 in music)
    1570) 1499 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Spanish composer (died 1571) November 6, 1492 – Antoine Busnois, composer and poet of the Burgundian School (b. c. 1430)...
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  • #27 Early American hurricanes 1492-1870, David Ludlum, pg 191 Boston News Letter Nov 7 1723 Early American hurricanes 1492-1870, David Ludlum, pg 21 Reassessment...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Fernandez-Partagas & Jack Beven (1997). "The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1492-1996: Cyclones that may have caused 25+ deaths". NOAA. Archived from the...
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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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    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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    Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency (c. 1493 – 12 November 1567) was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid...
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    Al-Andalus (category States and territories disestablished in 1492)
    states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most of the peninsula as...
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    the Catholic Monarchs (1492–1504/6) Coat of Arms of the Catholic Monarchs (1492–1504) Pennant of the Catholic Monarchs (1492–1504) Isabella succeeded...
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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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    hurricanes, 1492–1870. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, 198 pp. Millas, Dr. José Carlos, 1968: Hurricanes of the Caribbean and adjacent regions, 1492–1800. Academy...
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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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    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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