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1491 - A Premodern timeline
Isabella II of Castile I of Aragon I
Her first marriage was to Prince Afonso, the only son and heir of king John II of Portugal from his marriage with Eleanor of Viseu. The wedding, by proxy, took place in the spring of 1490 in Seville. On 19 November of that year, Isabella arrived in Badajoz, where she was welcomed by Afonso's uncle Manuel, the future King Manuel I of Portugal, whom she would eventually marry six years after her husband's death. Afonso and Isabella were reunited in Elvas on 22 November and, on the following day, Isabella met her mother-in-law, Queen Eleanor, in the Convento do Espinheiro in Evora, where the court had gathered to ratify the marriage that had been celebrated earlier in Seville.
Though the marriage had been arranged by the Treaty of Alcacovas, the marriage quickly became a love match.
Prince Afonso was forbiden to joust and ride for a while in order to ensure that Afonso and Isabella would have a heir and spare.
later on 1493, Isabella would give birth to a boy on December 4, 1193, the labor was very difficult for Isabella but she was able to survive it and the boy was baptized on Lisboa cathedral as John.
Columbus traveled from Portugal to both and , but he received encouragement from neither. He had also dispatched his brother to the court of to inquire whether the English crown might sponsor his expedition, but also without success.
Columbus had sought an audience from the monarchs and , who had united several kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula by marrying and were ruling together. On 1 May 1486, permission having been granted, Columbus presented his plans to Queen Isabella, who, in turn, referred it to a committee. After the passing of much time, the of Spain, like their counterparts in , replied that Columbus had grossly underestimated the distance to Asia. They pronounced the idea impractical and advised their Royal Highnesses to pass on the proposed venture.
However, to keep Columbus from taking his ideas elsewhere, and perhaps to keep their options open, the gave him an annual allowance of 12,000 and, in 1489, furnished him with a letter ordering all cities and towns under their domain to provide him food and lodging at no cost, however those efforts came in an abrupt end in July 1491 because Columbus die due to him contracting pneumonia, the same disease would kill John, Prince of Asturias the only son Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon on the same year, they would transfer their hopes to their grandson to their grandson who had the same name.
On the other side of the world, the Pinatubo mountain in Saludong, a part of Majapahit Empire would collapse and a few earth quakes would shock the island of Saludong, the Pinatubo Mountain would spew ash although the ash would also fade in few days.
The cone of Pinatubo would collapse and form a lake in its Caldera, the Kingdoms of Sapa(Kingdom of Tondo) and Kabolan would recover from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo and the merchants that trade in city states in Saludong such as Faru and Tundun would remain and the rivers would recover fast in a few months restoring the flow of trade to Majapahit from the North in a manner of months.