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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...t forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
15: The city wasn't founded until March 1st, 1565 by Portuguese knight Estᣩo de Sᬠwho called it...
17: ...estwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
19: ... transport out the wealth than farther [[Salvador da Bahia|Salvador]]. In [[1763]], the colonial admin...
21: ...s no physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: *[[Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
6: *[[Saint Aidan|Aidan, Saint]], (died 651)
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, ... - 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...
44: The Queen found a dangerous rival in her cousin, the Catholic Mary Stu...
53: ... a Catholic, [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]]. Lord Darnley was murdered in [[1567]] after the couple ha... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
43: ...ed States]], behind [[St. Augustine, Florida]] ([[1565]]). Santa Fe was the capital of [[Santa Fe de Nu... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politici...
6: *[[Genrikh Yagoda|Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich]] (1891-1938)
42: *[[Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori, Mitsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video ga...
73: ...Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
121: *[[Paramahansa Yogananda|Yogananda, Paramahansa]], ([[1893]]-[[1952]]) - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]])
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]]) - 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...
18: ...rrelled with Parsbjerg. A subsequent duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nos...
22: ...r father, uncle Jorgen Brahe, had already died in 1565 of pneumonia after rescuing [[Frederick II of Den... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...el's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...e [[Belgium|Belgian]] town of [[Bree]], called Breda in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' ...
5: ...Pieter van Aelst|Pieter Coecke van Aelst]], whose daughter Mayke he later married, and was in [[1551]]...
11: ... religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of win...
31: ...el'' c. 1563, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam <br> - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
1: [[Image:Giordano_Bruno.jpg|thumb|Giordano Bruno]]
3: '''Giordano Bruno''' ([[1548]] – [[February 17]] [[1600]]), a.k.a. '''Bruno Nol...
7: ...nt Domenico near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...ys of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from about [[300]] A.D. and to be associ...
10: ...umb|left|200px|Woodcut illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are ... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...quem de Montaigne''' ([[February 28]], [[1533]] – [[September 13]], [[1592]]) was an influential...
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived childhood. In 1568 ...
33: ...ithout truly getting emotionally involved, his disdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his atte... - History of India (31279 bytes)
5: At [[Bhimbetka]] in the present-day state of [[Madhya Pradesh]] are found the earlie...
11: ... in the edicts of the Mauryan Emperor [[Ashoka]], dating to the [[500 BC|5th century BC]], of the [[Ch...
20: ...ntury. By the year 1818, virtually all of present-day India was under the sway of the [[British East I...
30: ...uthern India. A tradition of Indian [[rock art]] dates to 40 or 50,000 years ago.
32: ...|7th Millennium BCE]], in northwest India. Recent data, substantiated by satellite imagery and oceanog... - 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]]) - Malta (18511 bytes)
27: |[[Edward Fenech Adami | Edward (Eddie) Fenech Adami]]
41: |'''[[Independence]]'''<br> - Date
69: ...to [[1090]]. 32 noble titles remain in use today, of which the oldest is ''Barons of Djar il Bnie...
71: ...of Malta (1565)|siege]] by the Ottoman Turks in [[1565]], who, at that time, were considered to be the g...
77: ...t time in history, an event celebrated as Freedom Day. Malta joined the [[European Union]] on [[May 1]... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
3: == Foundation and early history ==
25: ...], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicily, who acted as the Kin...
27: ... [[1565]] invaded, starting the [[Siege_of_Malta_(1565)|Great Siege of Malta]]. At first the battle look...
29: ...d, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the day almost the entirety of their fleet was destroyed...
50: ...Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues until today, gaining increasing independence from its Roman ... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
5: At [[Bhimbetka]] in the present-day state of [[Madhya Pradesh]] are found the earlie...
11: ... in the edicts of the Mauryan Emperor [[Ashoka]], dating to the [[500 BC|5th century BC]], of the [[Ch...
20: ...ntury. By the year 1818, virtually all of present-day India was under the sway of the [[British East I...
30: ...uthern India. A tradition of Indian [[rock art]] dates to 40 or 50,000 years ago.
32: ...|7th Millennium BCE]], in northwest India. Recent data, substantiated by satellite imagery and oceanog... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molec...
9: ...wiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of lif...
11: ...]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702).
13: [[John Ray]] (1627–1705) was an English naturalist who published i...
17: ...fter John Ray's death [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1707–1778) was born. His great work, the ''[[Systema... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
1: ... year in the [[Gregorian calendar]]. There are 22 days remaining.
3: {{DecemberCalendar}}
6: ...]] - [[New York, New York|New York City]]'s first daily [[newspaper]], the ''American Minerva'', is es...
14: ...leading [[suffragette]], founded the [[feminist]] daily [[newspaper]], ''[[La Fronde]]''.
20: ...le crash in occupied [[Germany]]. He died twelve days later.
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