# The Capitulaciones de Santa Fe of 17 April 1492 grant Columbus titles and a share as a dated extraction charter

Date: 1492

## The fact

On 17 April 1492 the Capitulaciones de Santa Fe granted [Columbus](/people/christopher-columbus) titles and a share. It is an extraction charter, not a unique discovery statute. Christopher Columbus's documented role is: He bargained admiral, viceroy, governor, and a tenth. Isabella and Ferdinand granted; clerks wrote.

## Context

The Catholic Monarchs signed. Sharing the bargain with that court is required. The setting of The Capitulaciones de Santa Fe of 17 April 1492 grant Columbus titles and a share as a dated extraction charter is the public file around 1492-04-17. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [fiscal-policy-sustainability](/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Columbus, Capitulaciones de Santa Fe at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on Santa Fe capitulations at https://www.cambridge.org/core/ (Cambridge University Press). Official carrier: Britannica — Columbus, Capitulaciones de Santa Fe (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on Santa Fe capitulations (https://www.cambridge.org/core/; Cambridge University Press).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Columbus, Capitulaciones de Santa Fe (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from The Capitulaciones de Santa Fe of 17 April 1492 grant Columbus titles and a share as a dated extraction charter on 1492-04-17. A dated extraction charter is a fiscal path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Capitulaciones de Santa Fe of 17 April 1492 grant Columbus titles and a share as a dated extraction charter under 1492-04-17 for Christopher Columbus. Established: a sourced public record of The Capitulaciones de Santa Fe of 17 April 1492 grant Columbus titles and a share as a dated extraction charter under 1492-04-17.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat later lawsuits as 1492. The paper is this Fact. Mixed effects of The Capitulaciones de Santa Fe of 17 April 1492 grant Columbus titles and a share as a dated extraction charter are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is fiscal-policy-sustainability. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of The Capitulaciones de Santa Fe of 17 April 1492 grant Columbus titles and a share as a dated extraction charter. Naming Christopher Columbus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1492-04-17 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Christopher Columbus: https://factrail.ai/people/christopher-columbus

## Drivers

- Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/col-capitulaciones-1492