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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of...
9: ...y College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
16: ...r as he married his succession of wives. Henry's last wife [[Catherine Parr]] helped reconcile the King...
27: ...en wished to put a member of the popular Tudor dynasty to death. Mary attempted to remove Elizabeth fro...
33: ...Catholic rites. Elizabeth I's coronation was the last one during which the Latin service was used; futu... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
44: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] ([[1595]]-[[1654]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...e has been referred to as the "father of modern [[astronomy]]," as the "father of modern [[physics]]," ...
7: ...culty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explo...
16: ==Astronomy==
18: ...g businesses. He published his initial telescopic astronomical [[observation]]s in March [[1610]] in a ...
22: ...dditional observations of them in [[1620]]. Later astronomers overruled Galileo's naming of these objec... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...gan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
4: ...ian to [[Rudolf II|Emperor Rudolf II]], and court astrologer to [[Albrecht von Wallenstein|General Wall...
13: ...o look at it." At age nine, he observed another astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]]...
15: ...for the vacant post of teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. ...
33: ...t circles. Using that knowledge, he was the first astronomer to successfully predict a [[transit of Ven... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
25: ...; in fashion, Bacon failed to become solicitor in 1595. To console him for these disappointments Essex ...
29: ...a Queen's Counsel, but missed the appointment of Master of the Rolls. During the next few years, his f...
37: ...B. showed a failure of character in striking contrast with the majesty of his intellect. He was corrupt...
40: ...was the justest judge, that was in England these last fifty years. When the book of all hearts is opene...
56: ... Bacon's Personal Life Story" and Mark Twain's last book , "Is Shakespeare Dead" are good starting po... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...gia|Georgia]] each came to the new continent for vastly different reasons, and they created colonies wi...
4: ... four regions in the lands that later became the eastern United States. Listed from north to south, th...
11: ...rst nation to find a direct trade route to the [[East Indies|"Indies"]] would benefit immensely. It wa...
22: ...y of Roanoke]], established in [[1586]] off the coast of today's [[North Carolina]] by Sir [[Walter Ral...
31: ...nd year. This state of economic affairs did not last, but tobacco continued to be the mainstay of the ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
14: ...87]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: ...e]] in [[1588]], further maps were published in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]....
22: ...rld and its Form) by Gerardus Mercator, Duisburg, 1595; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Cong... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
11: *[[Alessandro Algardi]] (1595 - 1654)
57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822) - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...he captain for whom he was sailing, becoming the master of his own bark. At age 23 Drake took his first...
12: ...ke took an immediate dislike to the Spanish, at least in part due to his mistrust of non-Spaniards and ...
16: ...wo of the ships had to be abandoned on the east coast of South America. During the course of the voyage...
22: ...e final ship sailed northward along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports like [[...
28: Drake's voyage to the west coast of [[North America]] is important for a number of... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author
167: ...[Thomas Digges]] ([[England]], [[1546]] – [[1595]]) - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...ure of [[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] (such as the [[caste system]] and [[purdah]], respectively). Sikhism ...
4: ...eys (north to [[Tibet]], south to [[Sri Lanka]], east to [[Bengal]] and west to [[Mecca]] and [[Baghdad...
6: ... This procedure was continued, and the tenth and last Guru, Guru Gobind (AD [[1666]]–[[1708]]) in...
16: ...ak said, does not mean entering paradise after a last judgment, but a union and absorption into God, th...
22: ...ndu background and he belonged to the mercantile caste. Even as a boy, Nanak was fascinated by religion... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
45: ...that permeated the world. ''Teixiptla'', by contrast, denoted the physical representations ("idols", s...
51: ...he ancient [[Toltec]] whom they seem to have at least partially confused with the more ancient civiliza...
61: ... number of skulls reported by [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]] would have occupied several orders of magni...
66: ... the time of the Spanish Conquest, show that at least some of them considered it an honor to be sacrifi...
79: ... they had children with or were married to their masters. - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
23: | [[Sultan]]s of the [[Osmanli|Osmanli Dynasty]]
29: ...m km² (1902); 19.9m km² maximum extent (1595)
45: ...[[Anatolia]] and ruled by the [[Osmanlı]] dynasty. In diplomatic circles it was often referred to ...
53: ...-century history with both the [[Eastern culture|East]] and the [[Western Culture|West]].
65: ...rt to keep power in their hands by regaining at least some of the lost territories, the triumvirate led... - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
7: ...lon in [[1595 BC]], installing the [[Kassite]] dynasty. Its cities continued for 100 years under differ...
11: ... finally changed in 627 BC with the death of the last strong Assyrian ruler, [[Ashurbanipal]], and Baby...
15: ...ges]], "king of the Manda" or Medes, at Ecbatana. Astyages' army betrayed him to his enemy, and Cyrus e...
17: ...n of Nabonidus died. A public mourning followed, lasting six days, and Cambyses accompanied the corpse ...
19: ...party despised him on account of his antiquarian tastes. He seems to have left the defence of his kingd... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
14: ...ist]] contains a traditional list of the early dynasties, much of it probably mythical. The first name...
16: The dynasty of Lagash is well known through important monume...
18: ...he Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. He is the last ethnically Sumerian king before the arrival of th...
21: ...e of [[Mitanni]] in northern Mesopotamia around [[1595 BC]], while the Babylonians controlled the south....
24: ...d [[pig]]s. They used [[ox]]en as their primary beasts of burden and [[donkey]]s as their primary trans... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...he hospice, which was built on the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christi...
7: The monastic hospitaller order was founded following the [[F...
15: ... well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]].
17: ...Auvergne]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Aragon]], [[Castile]], [[Germany]] and [[England]]). The English p...
19: ..., and the walls of the city. The resulting siege lasted six months, at the end of which the survivors w... - Atlas (cartography) (4308 bytes)
15: ...escription of the Universe) (Duisburg, [[1585]]-[[1595]]).
27: ...s Atlas was a wise philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, who supposedly made the first celestial g...
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