Granada

On 9 April 1609, Philip III signed the decree expelling the Moriscos from Spain - the descendants of Muslims whose families had lived on the Iberian peninsula since 711. The Treaty of Granada had promised them peace. It took 117 years to break that promise.

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.