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On 18 August 1492, Antonio de Nebrija presented Queen Isabella I with the first grammar of the Castilian language. Weeks after Columbus set sail, Nebrija handed the Spanish Crown the ultimate weapon of statecraft: a standardised tongue.
On 2nd January 1492, Boabdil - the last Sultan of Granada - handed the keys of the Alhambra to Ferdinand and Isabella, ending 781 years of Muslim rule in Iberia. The same year: Jews expelled, Columbus sets sail. One morning opened a very long sequence.