Surrender of Granada

Date: January 2, 1492 • Location: Granada, Spain

Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.

The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711. The Reconquista concluded in 1492 with the capture of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, thereby ending the presence of any Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula.