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- 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... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...s''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[Franc...
5: She stayed at court after becoming a widow and, at age 35, became the mi...
13: ...also not invited to the funeral. Immediately thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane from Chen... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
14: ...able. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
19: ...gent until her own death in [[1560]]). Six months after her birth, in July [[1543]], the [[Treaties of...
26: ... it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heavy shaft. Then the Sword of State was presented by the [[...
31: The Treaties of Greenwich fell apart soon after Mary's coronation. The betrothal did not sit w...
44: ... Mary was also next in line to the English throne after her cousin, Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Eli... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
13: ...ards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ...ragon]], was reinstated in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under t...
18: ...uld become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
27: ...of succession, but Parliament would not allow it. After two months in the Tower, Elizabeth was put und...
33: ...n Catholic holder of the office, had died shortly after Mary I. Since the senior bishops declined to p... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: ... "beauty" + γραφος ''graphos'' "writing") is the art of decorative ...
4: ...d [[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and p...
14: ...epresent the syllables of Japanese, and are named after the eighth century poetry collection [[Manyosh...
54: ..., the development of Chinese characters have been affected by seal carving, since simplification of ch...
106: ...ire text; they are known as the [[Hafiz|Huffaz]]. After witnessing the unreliability of such a form of... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
255: | <small>Africa</small>
696: ...Vatican's official list of popes. Died three days after his election, prior to his consecration as bis...
1683: | <small>Giovanni Pietro Carafa</small>
1694: | <small>[[7 January]] [[1566]] to [[1 May]] [[1572]]</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
16: ...nly by systematic and rigorous observation, night after night, and by using instruments of the highest...
18: ...occurred in the [[Christmas]] season of [[1566]], after a fair amount of drinking, while the just turn...
22: ...rgen Brahe, had already died in 1565 of pneumonia after rescuing [[Frederick II of Denmark]] from drow...
23: ...dstrup]], where his father died in May 1571. Soon after, his other uncle Steen Bille helped him build ...
27: ...alliance became a binding [[morganatic]] marriage after three years. - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
5: ...ld of [[Antwerp]]. He travelled to [[Italy]] soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling ...
44: * ''Preaching Of John The Baptist'' 1566, Beaux Arts Museum, Budapest
45: * ''Census at Bethlehem'' 1566, Mus饠des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
46: * ''The Wedding Dance'' c. 1566, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
150: *[[Pafnuty Chebyshev|Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev]], ([[Russia]], [[May 16]],...
184: *[[Francois d'Aguillon]] (Belgium, [[1566]] - [[1617]])
411: *[[Laurent Lafforgue]] (France, [[1966]] - )
640: *[[Peter Sarnak]] (South Africa, [[1955]] - ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
324: *[[Rafe Champion]]
965: *[[Pierre Laffitte]], (1823-1903){{fn|C}} - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tug...
45: ...[Anatolia]], the [[Middle East]], part of [[North Africa]], and south-eastern [[Europe]]. It was estab...
47: ...he [[Caliphate]], the Islamic State. In [[1453]], after the Ottomans [[Fall of Constantinople|captured...
57: ...pean development went into overdrive. Eventually, after a defeat at the [[Battle of Vienna]], in [[168...
66: ...resulting in Ottoman victory on this front. [[Mustafa Kemal Pasha]], who had made his reputation earli... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...for his successes instead of punished for mutiny. After he overthrew the Aztec empire, Cortés was awa...
18: After two years, Cortés, tired of schooling, return...
31: ...led him to a building plot and land to farm. Soon afterwards, [[Nicolás de Ovando]], still the govern...
40: ... belief that Cortés was trifling with Catalina's affections. Cortés was temporarily distracted by on...
42: ...s as mayor of the capital of Cuba and as a man of affairs in the thriving colony. He missed the first ... - Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
17: | [[1566 Icarus]] || [[June 27]], [[1949]]
32: ...d the [[Apollo asteroid|Apollo-class asteroid]] [[1566 Icarus]] (whose perihelion is closer than that of...
36: The [[asteroid]] [[1501 Baade]] is named after him, as is [[Baade (crater)|Baade crater]], a ...
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