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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...dici family|Medici]]''' ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''...
5: Born in [[Florence, Italy]], she was a daughter of [[Lorenzo II de' Medici]], Duke of Urbin...
11: During the reign of her husband (1547–1559), Catherine lived a quiet and passive life but ob...
13: ... she enforced a ban on thick waists at court attendance during the 1550s. For nearly 350 years, women'...
19: ...nd, after that failed, by the [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre]]. However, although Catherine is blam... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
2: '''Jeanne d'Albret''' ([[January 7]] [[1528]] – [[June 9]] [[1572]]) was Queen of [[Navarre]] ...
4: Jeanne was born in [[Pau]] in [[1528]], the daughter of [[Henry II of Navarre]] and [[Marguerite...
28: * [[Catherine de Bourbon]] ([[1559]]-[[1604]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
5: ...would remain his lifelong true love. They had one daughter born in 1538 Diane, Duchess d'Angoulꭥ (15...
13: In [[1559]], when Henri was critically wounded in a [[joust...
15: ...shes, and to provide a resting place for her, her daughter completed the funeral chapel built near the... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best...
9: ... lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and whose reign coincided with that...
17: ... during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
19: The six-day-old Mary became Queen of [[Scotland]], with [[Ja...
24: On the day of the coronation Mary was dressed in heavy rega... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British m...
16: ...abeth, and she, along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated ...
18: ...rticularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her de...
33: Elizabeth was crowned on [[15 January]] [[1559]]. There was no [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] at t...
35: ...be the head of the Church. The [[Act of Supremacy 1559]] required public officials to take an oath ackno... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
51: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +2 ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST +3]])
57: | [[Lebanon Cedar]]
71: Lebanon is one of the fifteen present-day countries that comprise what is considered to be...
73: ...andated]] the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]].
99: ... [[UN Security Council Resolution 1559|Resolution 1559]], sponsored by the [[United States]] and [[Fran... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]])
110: *[[David Bates (painter)|David Bates]] ([[1952]]-) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
3: {{JanuaryCalendar}}
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: ...0]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
24: | rowspan="2" | <small>Betsaida, [[Galilee|Galilea]]</small>
29: ...<small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair of P...
36: ...small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
43: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[26 April]]</small>
50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...hemia]] (now [[Czech Republic]])) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer...
8: ...leman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Beate Bille]], Tycho's moth...
10: ...ter wrote that when he was around two, his uncle, Danish nobleman [[J? Brahe]], ''... without the know...
12: On [[April 19]], [[1559]] Tycho began his studies at the [[University of ...
18: ...rrelled with Parsbjerg. A subsequent duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nos... - 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...
5: ...Pieter van Aelst|Pieter Coecke van Aelst]], whose daughter Mayke he later married, and was in [[1551]]...
14: ...umb|300px|Bruegel's ''Netherlandish Proverbs'', [[1559]], with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 [[pr...
22: * ''Netherlandish Proverbs'' 1559, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Gemaldegalerie, Be...
23: * ''The Fight Between Carnival and Lent'' 1559, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
6: * [[Jan Hus]], [[John Wycliffe]], [[William Tyndale]]
20: ...tural debate about religious reforms and later fundamental religious values. Historians would generall...
24: ...enturies,</b> the combination of both a newly abundant labor supply as well as improved productivity, ...
28: ...breakdown of the [[philosophy|philosophical]] foundations of [[scholasticism]], the new [[nominalism]]...
30: ... to reason. The European Renaissance laid the foundation for the Northern humanists in its reinforceme... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1:
7: ...eaths of most of the party) as governor of [[Florida]] and return there, but [[Charles V, Holy Roman E...
24: ...t/index.html Cabeza de Vaca's ''La Relación''] – contains hi-res photography of the 1555 editio...
25: ...uñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536''], hosted by the Porta... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
1: ...lendar]] (83rd in [[Leap year]]s). There are 283 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
24: ...esolution]] (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General C...
25: ...ian Ocean]], [[Japan]]ese forces capture the [[Anadaman Islands]].
27: ...ng Contest]] for [[Denmark]] singing "Dansevise" (Dancing tune). - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]...
88: *[[Danilo Blanusa]], ([[Croatia]], [[1903]] - [[1987]]) - Lent (7959 bytes)
3: ...iod preceding the [[Christianity|Christian]] holy day of [[Easter]]. [[Eastern Christianity]] calls th...
5: ...etermines that of Lent, is discussed [[Easter#The_date_of_Easter|elsewhere]]. Roughly speaking, Lent s...
7: ... [[Latin]] term ''quadragesima'' or the "fortieth day" before Easter, which is preserved in the [[Roma...
13: ...ing part of Lent. [[Ash Wednesday]] and the three days following it would not be part of Lent proper, ...
15: ...ng the Lenten season, disappearing on [[Ash Wednesday]] and not returning until the moment of the [[Re... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...urgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and his succes...
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