The Torturer Timeline

Anti-Semitic Riots

1391

riots across spain break out targeting jews, this type of violence is called a pogrom

Torequemada's Birth

1420

Torequemada is born around valladoid

Elected

1452

torquemada becomes head of santa cruz monestary

Isabella tutored

1457

the future queen of spain falls under the tutelage of torquemada

Unity

1469

Ferdinand and isabella marry, signaling a shift in power in spain and the first seeds of a united nation

Crowned

1474

Isabella crowned as queen of castille alongside ferdinand

moving the court

1477

Isabella orders her court to move to seville, and is then the subject of an influence campaign by prominent anti jewish preachers

The Inquisition Arrives

1478

Pope sixtus gives spain it's very own inquistition to have fun with

King

1479

Ferdinand appointed the leader of aragon, further seating the royal couple into power

Inquisition!!!!!

1480

The inquisition begins with torquemada at it's head

Pope Ignored

1482

Due to the pleas of several influential jews, the pope orders the inquisition to rein itself in, it, unsuprisingly, does not

Grand Inquisitor

1483

Torquemada becomes spain's first grand inquisitor, which basically grants him unprecedented control over the entirety of the inquisition in spain

Resistance

1485

Leaders in aragon try to resist the inquisition, but after making a fatal error and martyring an inquisitor, it quickly falls under the boot of the religious establishment

Surrender and Genocide

1492

With the surrender of grenada and the end of muslim rule in spain, the crown no longer needs the financial recources of the jews within it's borders and as such gives in to torquemada's requests to eject them all and do an ethnic cleansing

Death

1498

Torquemada dies and presumably goes to hell