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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: ...Image:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' Medici]]
3: ..., and later lived in [[France]] under the name '''Catherine de M餩cis''', was Queen of France as the ...
5: ...rly age, Catherine was sent to a convent to be educated; she was only fourteen when she was married (1...
7: ...royal house, would listen to such a proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived lo...
9: ...hen her maternal aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County of Auvergne]]. - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ...married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this political marriage was annulled four years later.
8: ... II of Navarre died, and Jeanne and her husband became rulers of Navarre.
10: ...Huguenot]] ministers which led to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her kingdom.
12: .... Jeanne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] now became "first prince of the blood."
28: * [[Catherine de Bourbon]] ([[1559]]-[[1604]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ... courts of several [[France|French]] kings, and became notorious as the mistress of King [[Henry II of...
5: ...filled his duty by marrying the noble foreigner [[Catherine de' Medici]], Diane de Poitiers would rema...
9: ...ch that when [[Pope Paul III]] sent the new Queen Catherine the "[[Golden Rose]]", he did not forget t...
11: ...[[Chⴥau de Chenonceau|Chⴥau Chenonceau]] that Catherine had wanted for herself.
13: ...t invited to the funeral. Immediately thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane from Chenonceau ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...he best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
14: ...ons, who were listed in that parliamentary act, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first m...
15: ...emi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had go...
17: ...e birth and prophesied, "The devil go with it! It came with a lass, it will gang with a lass!" The Ste...
19: ...riage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], where preparations were made for Mary's co... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...ce by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henr...
13: ...]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]...
16: ..., along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated in the line of...
18: ...st Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth became queen in [[1558]].
20: ...lerant. Elizabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. L... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
17: ...span="2" style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationLebanon.png]]
25: | '''[[Capital]]'''
62: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
66: ...''laban'' which means "white" and refers to snow-capped mountains. An Arabic cognate of the word ''l...
75: ...rawn up in [[1926]], specified a balance of political power among the major religious groups. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
13: *[[Pablo Picasso]], ([[1881]]-[[1973]]), Spanish [[Cubism|cubis...
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
57: *[[Carl Andre]] ([[1935]]-)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...w Year's Day'', and was, with [[Christmas]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]]...
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: ...[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...lti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]]]]
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Siricius]...
6: ...Apostles]], [[Supreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [...
7: ... has been [[Sovereign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]). - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... "[[research institute]]". For purposes of [[publication]], he owned a [[printing press]] and [[paper ...
8: ...ng's court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's mother, also came from an important family which had produced lea...
10: ...hich they moved, and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ...ut also studied a variety of other subjects and became interested in [[astronomy]]. It was, however, t...
14: ... of mapping the heavens conducted from a single location over a period of several years.'' -Tycho Brah... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...f [[Bree]], called Breda in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started sign...
7: ...unger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as they were still infants when t...
9: Bruegel specialised in landscapes populated by [[peasant]]s, painted in a simple...
11: ...drop to a religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the seve...
14: ...umb|300px|Bruegel's ''Netherlandish Proverbs'', [[1559]], with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 [[pr... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...d to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
4: * Anti-hierarchical movements: [[Cathar]]ism, [[Waldensian]]ism, and others
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Sc...
13: * [[John Calvin]] and [[Geneva]]
15: * Radical Reformers -- [[Thomas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1: ...w World]] and is remembered as a protoanthropological author.
3: ...lating his shipwreck and wanderings in North America, he refers to his forefather's service to the Kin...
5: ...ermed ''Malhado'', or Island of Doom) but later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]].
7: ...ed [[Pánfilo de Narváez]] (whose ineptitude had caused the deaths of most of the party) as governor ...
9: ...rated and wrote an extensive report on South America, which bound with his earlier ''La Relación'' an... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
1: ...number)|82]]nd day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (83rd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 283 ...
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
7: ...[[Second War of Religion]] in [[France]]. Again [[Catherine de Medici]] and [[Charles IX of France]] m...
9: *[[1775]] - [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Patrick Henry]] delivers ...
13: ...)|John Wickliffe]]'' arrives at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...elow in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
12: ... Abraham|Ralph H. Abraham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
37: *[[Cahit Arf]] (Turkey, [[1910]] - [[1997]])
99: *[[Carlo Emilio Bonferroni]] (Italy [[1892]] - [[1960]]...
106: *[[Jonathan Borwein]] (Scotland/Canada, [[1951]]-) - Lent (7959 bytes)
3: ... holy day of [[Easter]]. [[Eastern Christianity]] calls this period [[Great Lent]], to distinguish it...
7: ...common Dutch word for the spring season, which is called Lente.
9: ...Holy Week]] (also known as Passion Week), which recalls the events leading up to and including Jesus' ...
13: ...roper, constituting a "Lenten Prelude" instead. Because Lent is a season of grief that necessarily end...
15: In the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] Mass, the [[Gloria in Excelsis Deo]] is n... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...urgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and his succes...
3: ...hed a book of [[anatomy]] entitled ''De re anatomica'' in which he corrected some of the omissions and...
14: See also: [[Timeline of medicine and medical technology]].
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