Fall of Granada — the last emirate of al-Andalus surrenders

After a ten-year war of attrition against the combined crowns of Castile and Aragon, the Nasrid emirate of Granada — the last Muslim state in Iberia — capitulated. On 2 Rabīʿ al-Awwal 897, Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad XII (Boabdil to the Castilian chroniclers) surrendered the keys of the Alhambra, and the banners of Ferdinand and Isabella rose over the palace his ancestors had built.

The terms of capitulation promised the Muslims of Granada their religion, law and property. Within a decade the promises had collapsed into forced conversion, and within little more than a century the Moriscos would be expelled altogether.

The chroniclers on both sides fixed the day precisely — a rarity that reflects how deliberately staged the handover was.