Person1451 – 1504

Isabella I of Castile

Queen of Castile who, ruling Spain with Ferdinand II of Aragon, conquered Granada and sponsored Columbus’s voyage

Where they went

1
1479Union of Castile and Aragonmonarch
Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon married in 1469, and when Ferdinand became king of Aragon in 1479 the two crowns were joined, creating the Kingdom of Spain.
2
1492Fall of Granada and the End of the Reconquistamonarch
On 2 January 1492 the Catholic Monarchs of Spain conquered Granada, the last Muslim kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula, ending the Reconquista that had lasted some 800 years.
3
1494Treaty of Tordesillasmonarch
Spain and Portugal agreed to divide newly discovered lands along a meridian in the Atlantic — the west to Spain, the east to Portugal.

Ferdinand II of Aragon1452 – 1516
King of Aragon who, married to Isabella I of Castile, united Spain and completed the Reconquista by conquering Granada
Christopher Columbus1451 – 1506
Genoese navigator who, sponsored by Spain, crossed the Atlantic and reached the Americas in 1492

Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing
The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea