1492 was important

[keldoll532]

what are three reasons that 1492 was an important year in the history of Spain and America?

[shaneystar2]

Christopher Columbus reached America.
The last Muslim kingdom in Spain,Granada, was conquered .
Also the expulsion of the Jews from Spain forcing them either to convert or emigrate.
This date also symbolically marks the close of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Eraly Modern Era.
Also the first grammar of any vernacular language, Castilian, is produced.

[wendilla]

never forgot this date IN 1492 COLUMBUS SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE

[Octavius]

Easily found with a little research.

January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
March 30 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree expelling all Jews and Black ladinos from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
August 3 - Christopher Columbus first sails to the Americas (did he know which way to go though?)
August 3 - The Jews are expelled from Spain.
October 12 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The Italian explorer believes he has reached East Asia (silly sod).
October 21 - Christopher Columbus lands on the San Salvador Islands (how did he know it was them?).
October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba (first Easyjet flight I think).
December 5 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first known European to set (his) foot (alight) on the island of Hispaniola.