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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugue...
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
27: ... [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visit home, spent a year in Khios. It ...
31: ...on. At times, the brothers worked together as [[draftsmen]] and book collectors.
33: ...] to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the P...
39: ...ing posts and later colonies along the coast of [[Africa]]. Columbus had another idea. By the [[1480s]...
43: ... landmass (for Europeans of the time, Eurasia and Africa) occupied 180 degrees of the terrestrial sphe... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...ge of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Na...
2: ...fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is...
7: ...e infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
16: ...ged city of Orl顮s]] on [[April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from...
24: ... with Burgundian diplomats began at Reims shortly after the coronation, resulting in a 15-day truce wh... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
29: ...s]] and [[Phaistos]]. The civilization was named after King [[Minos]] and reached its peak in the sec...
31: ...he shape of a bull was found in Knossos from 1500-1450 BC. In addition, there are many double-bladed ax...
42: ...ngelo's David|David]]'' being the most famous. [[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]] also sculpted a statue call... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
59: ...ad dissipated by the 13th century A.D. In about [[1450]], the [[Quechua]]-speaking [[Incas]] entered the...
79: ...otorious for human rights abuses, [[narcotics]] trafficking, and economic mismanagement. Later convict...
81: ... executive. In October [[1982]], twenty-two years after the end of his first term of office (1956-60),...
89: ...until about the third year of its term in office. After that, regional, global and domestic factors co...
93: ...August 6]], [[2001]], Banzer resigned from office after being diagnosed with [[cancer]]. He died less ... - Biography (6028 bytes)
16: The [[Middle Ages]] (AD [[400]] to [[1450]]) began with the [[Dark Ages]], a period of mass...
18: ...Arthur]] and his [[Knights of the Round Table]]. After Malory's work, the [[Renaissance]] period conc... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
124: *[[Kamaleddin Behzad]] ([[1450]]-)
318: *[[Gerard David]] (ca.[[1450]]-[[1523]])
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
437: *[[Nicolas Froment]] (ca.[[1450]]-ca.[[1490]]) - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...g of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
21: ...mannus Contractus]], [[Johannes Cotto]] (Johannes Afflighemensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]...
27: ...ire liturgy. In Milan, [[Ambrosian chant]], named after St. Ambrose, was the standard. Celtic chant w...
46: ...mes known as the [[school of St. Martial]] (named after a monastery in south-central France, which con...
55: ...spel, the Passion, and the lives of the saints--grafted on. Every part of Europe had some sort of tra... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...n European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregorian calendar as promulgated i...
73: ...bile phone call is made by [[Ernie Wise]] to [[Vodafone]].
96: *[[2004]] - [[Pervez Musharraf]] receives a vote of confidence to continue as th...
146: *[[1942]] - [[Gennadi Sarafanov]], [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
188: |[[Sears Tower]]||1974||Present||1450 ft||442 m||1730 ft||527 m||11... - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...of "Joseph"; latinized Josquinus Pratensis) (c. [[1450]] – [[August 27]], [[1521]]) was a [[Dutch ...
6: ... Weerbeke]] and [[Loyset Comp貥]]. In [[1476]], after the murder of Duke Sforza, he left this positi...
14: ...es on composition; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]]... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
7: ...date and which we find in use within thirty years after his death, but was not properly [[beatificatio...
21: ...tment was made at the suggestion of Angelico only after the archbishopric had been offered to him, and...
23: ...of San Marco and later Archbishop of Florence. He afterwards returned to Rome to paint the chapel of N...
37: ... resolute, he produces little genuine impression. After allowing for this, Angelico should nevertheles... - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: ...eronymus Bosch''', also '''Jeroen Bosch''', (c. [[1450]] – [[August]], [[1516]]) was a prolific [[...
16: ...ip II of Spain]] bought many of Bosch's paintings after the painter's death; as a result, the [[Prado ... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
9: ...about [[1435]]. He was in [[Italy]] in [[1440]]-[[1450]], but his visit shows no result on his style, wh...
13: ...hilip.jpg|thumb|250px|Philip the Good, painted c. 1450 by Roger van der Weyden]]
21: * ''Madonna with Saints'' ([[1450]]), [[Stadel Institute]], [[Frankfurt]]
37: [[Image:Weyden Ivo.jpg|thumb|250px|''St Ivo'' (c.1450) Oil on oak panel, 45 x 35 cm National Gallery, L...
39: There was a younger Roger van der Weyden (c. [[1450]]-[[1529]]), to whom a brilliant ''Mary Magdalen'... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
1: ...px|From the ''Cycle of Famous Men and Women.'' c. 1450. Detached fresco. 247 x 153 cm. Galleria degli Uf...
8: ... their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral herita...
12: ...ecutor of Petrarch's testament). In 1362, shortly after the birth of a daughter, Eletta, they joined P...
19: ...led constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled wit...
24: ... twelve pastoral poems; and the unfinished epic ''Africa''. Petrarch also published many volumes of h... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
13: ... had ruled for over 320 years, with one male heir after the next taking the throne (the oldest continu...
17: ... month of bombardment from the French cannons and after being promised reinforcements which never arri...
29: ...r England, and David was forced to flee to France after being defeated by King Edward and [[Edward Bal...
38: ... completely destroyed in the [[Battle of Sluys]]. After this, England was able to dominate the [[Engli...
50: After the Black Death had passed and England was abl... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...during the [[Palaeolithic]] period. This occurred after a long period of [[human evolution|evolution]]...
7: ...odern humans spread rapidly over the globe from [[Africa]] and the frost-free zones of [[Europe]] and ...
12: ... of [[Australia]] and the [[Bushmen]] of southern Africa, did not use agriculture until relatively mod...
21: ...al poor [[Inca]] had metal tipped plows, at least after the conquest of [[Chimor]]. However, very litt...
23: ...hese collapses inaugurated a period of confusion, after which two competing civilisations emerged in t... - Venice (22017 bytes)
10: ...ar west as the [[Adda River]], were known as "Terrafirma", and were acquired partly as a buffer agains...
24: After 1070 years, the Republic lost its independence...
26: ...ed 'unredeemed' until the end of the Great War.] After 1797, the city fell into a serious decline, wi...
28: ==Naval and military affairs==
29: By [[1450]], more than 3,000 Venetian merchant ships were i... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
3: ...nexplained hundred-year gap from 1500 to 1400 BC. After 1200 BC the Hittite polity disintegrated into ...
14: ...uld read it, no one could understand it. Shortly after this, [[Archibald Sayce]] proposed that the An...
43: ...of near-anarchy. Mursili was assassinated shortly after his return home, and the Hittite Empire was pl...
46: ...ned sometime between [[1300 BC]] and [[1286 BC]], after endless and unsuccessful fights against Egypti...
49: ... famine and concomitant economic disasters (which affected Europe as far away as Britain as well as th... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
9: Eventually, the Olmec culture faded after spreading its influence into the [[Yucatan]] p...
82: ...960s]] and [[1970s]] and accelerated rapidly thereafter, so that now the majority of Maya texts can be...
84: ...are the tantalzing remains of what had been books after all the organic material decayed.
90: ...ottery (which mostly deals with beliefs about the afterlife).
102: ...cessarily widespread beyond the elite classes. Graffiti uncovered in various contexts, including on f...
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