Michael Fishbane

Year 1492 (MCDXCII) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The year 1492 marked a significant milestone in world history, with the beginning of the invasion and conquest of the "New World" of the Americas, and the "Old World" in Europe, as well as the unification of Spain, the end of Islamic rule in continental Europe, and the expulsion of the Jewish people from Spain.