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1490s in Spain

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Reconquista
thumb|250px|Detail of the Cantigas de Santa Maria|Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and [[Almanzor]] The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ) or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had previously been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711. The Reconquista concluded in 1492 with the capture of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, thereby ending the presence of
Treaty of Tordesillas
treaty dividing territory between Portugal and Spain
Alhambra Decree
1492 decree expelling Jews from Spain
Spanish Golden Age
16th- and 17th-century period of cultural and literary flourishing coinciding with the rise of the Spanish Empire
Granada War
1482–1492 war
Inter caetera
papal bull by Alexander VI (4 May 1493) which granted to the Catholic Kings Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile all lands to the "west and south" of a line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or of Cape Verde
expulsion of the Jews from the territories of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon
Expulsion of Jews from the territories of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1492
Treaty of Granada
treaty that ended the Granada War
voyages by Christopher Columbus
1492–1504 voyages to the Americas; beginning of the Columbian exchange
Capitulations of Santa Fe
signed document between Christopher Columbus and the rulers of Spain
Gramática de la lengua castellana
book by Antonio de Nebrija
Rebellion of the Alpujarras
1499–1501 series of uprisings
Conquest of Melilla
1497 conquest
Battle of Aguere
1494 battle
Catalan constitutions
Laws of the Principality of Catalonia until 1716
Treaty of Barcelona
1493 treaty between France and Aragon
First Battle of Acentejo
1494 Spanish defeat
Second Battle of Acentejo
1495 conflict