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- 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: ...04]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]] in [[1599]]. - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
4: ...[Catherine de' Medici]]. Three of her brothers became kings of France: [[Francis II of France|Fran篩...
6: ...eunite family ties and create harmony between the Catholics and [[Huguenot]]s. Although Henri's mother...
8: ...ight ahead, never looking at each other. When the Cardinal asked Marguerite if she willingly took Henr...
10: ...e de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Bartholom...
12: ...ld take seven years, but they were concluded in [[1599]] with an agreement that allowed her to maintain ... - 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... - 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]]) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
1: ...ngst av Carl Larsson 1897.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Carl Larsson]], ''Crayfishing'', watercolor, 1897]]
3: ...[plastic]]s, [[leather]], [[fabric]], wood, and [[canvas]].
6: ...[Spain]] and the technology spread to [[Italy]] decades later. Some of the oldest paper manufactures i...
12: ...nti]] ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), who painted full-scale cartoons as precursors for tapestry designs.
16: ...ork with [[oil paint]], including [[van Dyck]] ([[1599]]-[[1641]]), [[Thomas Gainsborough]] ([[1727]]-[[... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...ory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientif...
4: ...ler was an assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei...
9: ...fortunes were in decline. His father earned a precarious living as a [[mercenary]], and abandoned the...
11: ...ied, and was plagued by a belief that he was physically repulsive, thoroughly unlikable and, compared ...
13: ... of [[1580]], recording that he remembered being "called outdoors" to see it and that the moon "appear... - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
9: ...ean since the [[Viking]]s to reach the North American mainland, which he claims for [[England]]
15: *[[1519]]-[[HernᮠCort鳝] defeats [[Tlaxcala]], a small state neighboring the [[Aztec]] empi...
18: ...ce]], explores coastline from present-day [[North Carolina]] to [[Maine]]
19: ...ning Spanish claims to the interior of North America
28: <td align="center"><B>Beginnings to 1599</B><BR>[[History of the United States]]</td> - August (4611 bytes)
1: {{AugustCalendar}}
2: ...eighth]] month of the [[year]] in the [[Gregorian Calendar]] and one of seven Gregorian months with th...
4: ...peaking, the sun begins in the constellation of [[Cancer]] and ends in the constellation of [[Leo]].
6: ...in]], since it was the sixth month in the [[Roman calendar]] which started in [[March]].
10: ...[Lugh]] and [[August 1]], (L᠌?) in the [[Irish Calendar]] is still regarded as the first day of [[A... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
3: ...ing an [[volcanic eruption|eruption]] of the [[volcano]] [[Mount Vesuvius]] in 79 CE. The eruption was...
9: ...ites]] conquered it (and all the other towns of [[Campania]]); the new rulers imposed their architectu...
11: ...s (goddess)|Veneria]] Pompeianorum'''. The town became an important passage for goods that arrived by ...
13: ... severely damaged Pompeii and many other towns of Campania. In the time between 62 and 79 (the eruptio...
18: ...on. Coincidentally, the date was that of the [[Vulcanalia]], the festival of the Roman god of fire. - 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... - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...an]] ''Venezia''), the city of [[canal]]s, is the capital of the region of [[Veneto]], population 271,...
6: ...tate]] (an Italian [[thalassocracy]] or ''Repubblica Marinara'', the other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pi...
10: ...gean]], including [[Cyprus]] and [[Crete]], and became a major power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By t...
12: Venice became an imperial power following the [[Fourth Crusad...
14: ...[[knight tenure]] within the city itself. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[c... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
1: ...number)|81]]st day of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (82nd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 284 ...
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
8: ...sachusetts Bay Colony]] outlaws the possession of cards, [[dice]], and gaming tables.
10: ...st direct tax levied from [[England]] on the American colonies.
12: *[[1871]] - In [[North Carolina]], [[William Woods Holden]] becomes the fir... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}} - Dust Bowl (5196 bytes)
2: ...or [[wheat]] farming and the vast herds of [[American Bison|buffalo]] were no longer fertilizing the r...
6: ...ld the soil when the rains dried up and the winds came in the [[1930s]].
8: ...gh-end estimates for the number of displaced Americans are as high as 2.5 million, but the lower value...
11: ...st Bowl. The dust clouds blew all the way to [[Chicago]] where filth fell like snow, dumping the equiv...
13: ...lack Blizzards" occurred throughout the dustbowl, causing extensive damage, turning the day to night. ...
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