Year (MCDXCII) was a Leap Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
- January 2 - Boabdil , the last Moorish King of Granada , surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
- January 23 - Pentateuch first printed.
- March 31 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra Decree expelling all Jew s from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism .
- July 31 - The Jew s are expelled from Spain .
- August 3 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to The Americas .
- Ygo Gales Galama , Frisian warlord and freedom fighting rebel (b. 1443 ), is brutally murdered
- August 11 - Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th Pope , after the 1492 Papal Conclave .
- Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire , learning about the expulsion of Jews from Spain , dispatched the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Thessaloniki (currently in Greece ) and İzmir (currently in Turkey ). {Link without Title}
- October 12 - Christopher Columbus 's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani . The Italian explorer believes he has reached the East Indies .
- October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba .
- November 7 - The Ensisheim Meteorite , a 127-kg Meteorite , lands in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace .
- December 5 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first known Europe an to set foot on the island of Hispaniola .
- December 31 - About 100,000 Jews were expelled from Sicily.
- Casimir IV Jagiello of Jagiello Royal House ends reign. ( 1427 -1492).
- Year 7000 according to the Byzantine Date Of Creation and an expected year of Apocalypse
- The first arboretum to be designed and planted was the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia.
- Russians build a Fortress in Ivangorod , on the eastern banks of Narva River .
- March 4 - Francesco De Layolle , Italian composer (died c 1540 )
- March 27 - Adam Ries , German mathematician (died 1559 )
- April 4 - Ambrosius Blarer , German religious reformer (died 1564 )
- April 11 - Marguerite Of Navarre , queen of Henry II Of Navarre (died 1549 )
- April 20 - Pietro Aretino , Italian author (died 1556 )
- July 2 - Elizabeth Tudor , daughter of Henry VII Of England (died 1495 )
- September 7 - Giacomo Aconcio , Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (died 1566 )
- September 12 - Lorenzo II De' Medici , Duke of Urbino (died 1519 )
- --- Berthold Haller , Swiss reformer (died 1536 )
- --- Amago Kunihisa , Japanese nobleman (died 1554 )
- --- Hirate Masahide , Japanese retainer and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (died 1553 )
- --- Edward Edward Wotton , English physician and zoologist (died 1552 )
- ''probable''
- --- Thomas Manners, 1st Earl Of Rutland (died 1543 )
- --- Fernan Perez De Oliva , Spanish man of letters (died 1531 )
- --- Polidoro Da Caravaggio , Italian painter (died 1543 )
- April 8 - Lorenzo De' Medici , ruler of Florence (born 1449 )
- June 7
- --- Casimir IV Jagiellon , King of Poland (born 1427 )
- --- Elizabeth Woodville , Queen of Edward IV Of England (born 1437 )
- July 25 - Pope Innocent VIII (born 1432 )
- October 12 - Piero Della Francesca , Italian artist (born c 1420 )
- October 25 - Thaddeus McCarthy , Irish bishop (born c 1455 )
- November 6 - Antoine Busnois , French composer and poet (born c 1430 )
- November 19 - Jami , Persian poet (born 1414 )
- Ygo Gales Galama , Frisian warlord and freedomfighting rebel (b. 1443 ), is brutally murdered
- November 24 - Loys Of Gruuthuse , earl of Winchester (born c 1427 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Anne Neville, Countess Of Warwick (born 1426 )
- --- Baccio Pontelli , Italian architect (born c 1450 )
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