page_title: 1492
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1492 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Marguerite d'Angoulême (1492-1549)
context_page_description: Year 1492 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1492nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 492nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 15th century, and the 3rd year of the 1490s decade.
  1492 is considered to be a significant year in the history of the West, Europe, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Spain, and the New World, among others, because of the number of significant events to have taken place during it. Some of the events which propelled the year into Western consciousness, also listed below, include the completion of the Reconquista of Spain, Europe's discovery of the New World, and the expulsion of Jews from Spain.
context_section_description: January 22 – Beatrix of Baden, Margravine of Baden, Countess Palatine consort of Simmern (d. 1535)
  March 4 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
  March 21 – John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Count Palatine of Simmern (1509-1557) (d. 1557)
  March 27 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (d. 1559)
  April 4 – Ambrosius Blarer, influential reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland (d. 1564)
  April 6 – Maud Green, English noble (d. 1531)
  April 11 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
  April 20 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author (d. 1556)
  April 24 – Duchess Sabina of Bavaria (d. 1564)
  May 8 – Andrea Alciato, Italian jurist and writer (d. 1550)
  July 2 – Elizabeth Tudor, English princess, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1495)
  August 1 – Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (d. 1566)
  August 8 – Matteo Tafuri, Italian alchemist (d. 1582)
  September 12 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
  September 29 – Chamaraja Wodeyar III, King of Mysore (d. 1553)
  October 1 – Georg Rörer, German theologian (d. 1557)
  October 11 – Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, French noble (d. 1495)
  October 30 – Anne d'Alençon, French noblewoman (d. 1562)
  November 12 – Johan Rantzau, German general (d. 1565)
  November 27 – Donato Giannotti, Italian writer (d. 1573)
  date unknown
  Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (d. 1554)
  Berchtold Haller, Swiss reformer (d. 1536)
  Amago Kunihisa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1554)
  Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance (d. 1566)
  Hirate Masahide, Japanese retainer and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (d. 1553)
  Edward Wotton, English physician and zoologist (d. 1555)
  probable
  Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (d. 1543)
  Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (d. 1531)
  Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter (d. 1543)
  Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish historian (d. 1584)
caption: Queen Marguerite de Navarre
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