January 2 » Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
January 16 » The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
April 17 » Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
October 12 » Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas.
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 5 » Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Pam Schaeffer Massung, "Schaeffer-Massung Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/schaeffer-massung-family-tree/I280140570980.php : accessed April 30, 2025), "Elizabeth TUDOR (1492-1495)".
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.