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1391
Anti Jewish riots break out!
Cordoba, Toledo, Valencia, and Barcelona start having riots. Ferrant Martinez traveled through spain shouting lies about Jewish people being dangerous -
1420
The gruesome child is born
Tomas de Torquemada is born -
1452
Torquemada gains power
Torquemada becomes the head of the monastery of Santa Cruz in Segovia after working as a Dominican Friar -
1467
The Princess gets educated
The Queen required Princess Isabella to get a Catholic education. Torquemada became her teacher and later started hearing her confessions. -
1469
Wedding bells chime
After Isabella's half brother tried to arrange a marriage for her the year prior, Isabella made her own choice on who to marry and she marries Ferdinand of Aragon -
1473
Riots grow worse
Christians begin to attack conversos in Cordoba (conversos are Christians who converted from Judaism) -
1474
Isabella becomes Queen
Henry IV died and Isabella declared herself queen -
1475
The War
After Henry IVs death some powerful nobles refused to support Isabella's reign -
1477
A court moved
Isabella moved her court to Seville, which had one of the highest Jewish and Conversos population. -
1478
The Pope orders it!
Pope Sixtus IV granted permission for Spain to begin an inquisition. inquisitors had no power over jewish people but were tasked to find heritics -
1479
theres a new king
Ferdinand becomes the king of Aragon -
1480
The Inquisition Starts
Torquemada gets name to her royal council. 10 days after Torquemada sets the first 2 targets to be Domincan Friars -
Dec 27, 1480
Inquisitors are not enough
Isabella issues an ordeer to make City officials help find Jewish people -
Feb 6, 1481
proof found
the inquisition takes its first victims 6 prisoners were burned at the stake -
1482
the pope is displeased
The pope objects to tactics the inquisitors use but Ferdinand ignores him -
1483
Torquemada gets more power pt. 2
Torquemada is declared Spains first Grand Inquisitor -
1484
the inquisition is resisted
Leaders in Aragon try to resist the Inquisition by murdering Pedro de Arbues which causes support for the Inquisition -
1492
Granada Surrenders
Muslim leaders in Granada surrendered to spain. Spain orders all jewish people to convert or leave spain -
1498
Torquemada
Tomas de Torquemada dies of Gout complications