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Comments[edit]

interesting to read a commentary on spain and 1492...they didn't seem to like / want anybody at that time did they?

According to the Alhambra Decree the Jews were to leave Spain by the end of July, so what is the basis for the date of their expulsion here as 3rd August? what is going on???

3 August is just after July. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.48.143 (talk) 00:35, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Leap Year[edit]

Was this really a leap year since leap years did not exist before 1582? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.155.87.222 (talk) 11:28, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Leap years have existed since the introduction of the Julian calendar in 45 BC. You're confusing it with the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced in 1582. It's true that the leap year rules differ slightly between the Julian and Gregorian calendars, but leap years are much older than 1582. /Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 12:04, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gregorian Calendar[edit]

At the top it tells you what day the year started on in the Gregorian Calendar, but that calendar wasn't even invented in 1492!

But as we all know, that calendar was started in 1492. so who are we to judge what happend there. We as people off all nations and language should be more understanding, because we didn't realy know what happend, we can speculate all we want but even if we can find evidance that it started there or not. I for one have done so in the last few mothns and found nothing that i don't know now, that is why I will stick with everything i know of that year. Some reaserch told me that my family on both my parents side were jews, but i am not a jew, i am a christian. My family are proud of our heratige and so am i. --Protea ben 17:09, 16 June 2007 (UTC)19:08[reply]

Nationality of Cristopher Columbus[edit]

Cristopher Columbus wasn't italian. Nobody knows his birthplace.

Interestingly the very day that he set sail, so did a whole bunch of Jews as they were expelled from Spain. Perhaps history has omitted details of his story to make it sound more glorious, but perhaps he was a Jew who set sail on the day of the mass expulsion and instead of going to Portugal, he kept going. Obviously if it was a Jew that hit the New World first, Spain would try and downplay that detail but make this person of mysterious parentage as a national hero of Spain. Valley2city 19:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could be, but this belongs in his own page. -80.160.159.174 20:53, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

End of middle-age[edit]

It's considered the end of middle-age, although it's somewhat disputed with 1453.
And.. doesn't the Renaissance Period come after Middle Age? Or is it considered as a "sub-category" of the Modern Age? Which states on it's article:

The term Modern era, Modern period, or Modern Times is used by historians to loosely describe the period of time immediately following what is known as the early modern period.

Either of the two pages should be cleared up... -Rey

Nearly Headless Nick?????[edit]

I thought this was an article on the actual events from 1492. Why are we including fictional material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.251.48.154 (talk) 22:32, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discovering[edit]

Europe discovered the New wordl? I think spaniards and columbus did Zento1987 (talk) 17:33, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removing Unnecessary Detail in Lead Section[edit]

The first paragraph of the lead section is cluttered with arcane details that most year articles don't have. In the rare circumstance that someone needs them, they can be easily determined without cluttering this page. The additional text is:

the 1492nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 492nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 15th century, and the 3rd year of the 1490s decade.

The revision that added this was made at 2020-03-08T01:16:14 and appears to be have made in good faith. But this increases the size of the first paragraph by about 250% with no value.

This ends up burying the main point of the article in the second paragraph of the lead:

1492 is considered to be a significant year in the history of (a lot of stuff...)

I will be removing this text for both clarity and making the importance of the year more obvious.

Please discuss here if these changes are deemed inappropriate.

Nebrija's Gramática castellana[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia correctly places the publication date as 18 August:

18 de agosto: se publica la primera edición de la Gramática castellana de Antonio de Nebrija.

The "tool of empire" needs attribution or should be removed. The Family Idiot (talk) 18:08, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]