January 6 » The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War.
January 16 » The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
April 30 » Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
October 28 » Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
November 7 » The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
December 25 » The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Robin Lortz, "Lortz Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/lortz-family-tree/P6729.php : accessed May 13, 2024), "Joan Lady of Powderham Devon Tremayne (1449-1492)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.