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1492 Columbus sails from Spain, reaches the West Indies Luis de Torres, an interpreter, accompanies Christopher Columbus on his first voyage for Ferdinand and Isabella Jews are expelled from Catholic Spain
1519 Hernando Cortez begins conquest of Mexico    
1542     Martin Luther reviles Jews in his tract On the Jews and Their Lies
1565     Joseph Caro codifies Jewish law in his Shulhan Arukh
1585   Joachim Gans, a Central European minerals expert on Sir Walter Raleigh's expeditions, surveys the Carolina coast  
1596   Luis de Carvajal is burned at the stake by the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Mexico  
1598     Jacob Tirado builds a synagogue in Amsterdam

    
 
 
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