1492 Event
1492
The fall of Granada, the decree expelling the Jews, Columbus’s departure: three ruptures in a single year.
What leads to what
Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.Upstream
- echoes Fall of Constantinople 1453 La route de l’Orient se ferme ; on en cherche une autre.
Meanwhile, elsewhere
Within twenty-five years of 1492 — the context national timelines leave out.- 6 years later Vasco da Gama reaches India Portugal
- 25 years later Luther’s 95 Theses Germany
- 14 years later Building of St Peter’s Vatican City
- 24 years later Erasmus edits the Greek New Testament Netherlands
- 24 years later Ecclesiastical principality Montenegro
- 25 years later Skaryna’s Bible Belarus
- 7 years later Swabian War Switzerland
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