On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella proclaimed that all Jews were to be expelled from Spain.
What set spark to tinder was the abdication of Spain's King Ferdinand VII, after a French invasion in 1808.
In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling all Jews unwilling to convert to Christianity from Spanish soil.
No letters to outsiders bear this mark, and the one letter to Diego in which this was omitted was one meant for King Ferdinand.
Ceuta and Melilla are the remnants of a string of Spanish fortresses built in North Africa after King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella reconquered Andalusia from the Moors.
For all of his proximity to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Abravanel had no idea that they were planning to expel the Jews and so was unable to either cancel the expulsion decree or to make preparations for the community to move to another land.
When Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, fled advancing French troops in 1798 he took with him to Palermo some 20 works from the remarkable Farnese collection, his grandmother Elisabetta having been the last of the Farnese line.
In 1861, Ferdinand I, first king of modern Bulgaria, was born.
England are already missing a host of players, including Paul Robinson, John Terry, Wayne Bridge, Rio Ferdinand, Jamie Carragher, Ledley King, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Kieron Dyer and Wayne Rooney.
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In 1637, Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, archduke of Austria and king of Bohemia and Hungary, died.
Captain Mat Mitchel-King - who works as a model and has body doubled for the likes of Thierry Henry and Rio Ferdinand - admits having two careers can get tiresome.
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