1492 > Friday: while the last Jewish exiles leave Spain, Christopher Columbus leaves Palos with 3 ships and 120 persons, including a crew of 90; no woman, no hidalgo, no priest => 12 oct

1523 > Guilielmus Rosseus, pen name of More, signs the introductory letter of "Responsio ad Lutherum" (CW5, pp. 14-24)