March 31 » Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
April 17 » Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
August 3 » Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
August 12 » Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
September 6 » Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
December 5 » Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
January 21 » Following the Affair of the Placards, the French king leads an anti-Protestant procession through Paris.
April 20 » The sun dog phenomenon is observed over Stockholm, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
May 19 » French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
June 1 » Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
June 24 » The Dominion of Münster, a radical communal Anabaptist state in the independent German city of Münster, is conquered by Franz von Waldeck, the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Münster in a night attack.
October 2 » Jacques Cartier discovers the present site of Montreal.
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