If you had to pick one year that changed Spain, it’d have to be 1492.
The year started with the Fall of Granada. On January 2, the last Emir of Granada surrendered to the King of Aragon and the Queen of Castile, establishing Christian rule over the entire Iberic Peninsula after 780 years of Muslim control. The couple, once they had control over the peninsula, didn’t lose time expelling the other significant non-Christian minority. During the summer, up to 100,000 Jews were forced to leave Spain. The year ended with Christopher Columbus, sent by the same Spanish monarchs, discovering America and changing the history of the Iberic peninsula and the entire world in ways that no-one at the time would’ve been able to predict.
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