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 12 » Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
October 12 » Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas.
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.
March 22 » Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
December 10 » The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
December 29 » Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
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.
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.
October 4 » The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
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