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- 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 [... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...in the 17th century would be "[[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]": Puritanism was a movement rather th...
16: ...e absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter became the...
20: ... of the Church he saw Puritanism as a potentially dangerous movement; he authorized the [[King James B...
32: ...idual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. [http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/w...
36: ... [[United Church of Christ]]) is the direct descendant of New England Puritan congregations, although ... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
38: *[[Johann Adam Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Adam]] (1780-1853)
43: ...Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775)
59: *[[Uriel Acosta|Acosta, Uriel]], (1585-1640), philosopher - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
4: She was born in [[Valladolid]], [[Spain]], as the daughter of [[Hapsburg]] parents, [[Philip III of Sp...
6: ...638]] and [[Philip I, Duke of Orl顮s]] born in [[1640]]. The marriage was not a happy one, filled with ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
8: ...s''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 years old. They are engraved a...
97: *[[Salvador Dal흝, ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
106: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
107: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...1974]] and the subsequent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made...
20: ... Consolidation of the Monarchy in Portugal|Consolidation of the kingdom]]'''''
23: ...set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandals]] ([[Silingi]] and [[Hasdingi]]) and the sarmat...
31: ...ing with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, married King [[John I of Castile]] who wou...
40: ...s had their own objective, searching for the legendary Christian Kingdom of [[Prester John]]. - Spain (36498 bytes)
39: established_dates = [[1492]] |
58: ...-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a separate [[ethnic group]]. The most importa...
62: ...olony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin name of modern day [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]]).
77: By [[1512]], most of the kingdoms of present-day Spain were politically unified, although not as ...
83: In [[1640]], under [[Felipe IV of Spain|Felipe IV]], the ce... - Biography (6028 bytes)
8: ...ographies only detailed accomplishments. The [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[holy scripture]] is an [[anthology]...
14: == Dark and Middle Ages ==
16: ... Ages]] (AD [[400]] to [[1450]]) began with the [[Dark Ages]], a period of mass loss of information an...
22: ... the complex style of biographical writing used today. In [[1683]], the first [[English language]] bi...
26: ...utting out much shorter—and less expensive—"brief lives" of famous people... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
7: ...was surrendered by Bradford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
45: *[[David Allan]] ([[1744]]-[[1796]]) - Macau (16856 bytes)
25: |'''Establishment<br> - Date'''
40: ...peak [[Cantonese Chinese|Cantonese]] natively; Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and English are also spok...
44: ...Kong and Macau is available 24 hours a day, every day.
50: ...島; Liandao; "Lotus Island"), as well as "Soda port" (疏打埠).
59: ...40]], Macau was granted the official title of ''Cidade do (Santo) Nome de Deus de Macau, N㯠hᠯutra ... - 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]]. - March 17 (9666 bytes)
1: ...alendar]] (77th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 289 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
6: ...mpeius|Pompey the Younger]] in the [[Battle of Munda]].
9: *[[1756]] - [[St. Patrick's Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for the fir...
19: *[[1931]] - [[Nevada]] legalizes [[gambling]]. - 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]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[Englis...
10: ...l (see [[Hertford College]]). The principal of Magdalen was the aggressive [[Puritan]] [[John Wilkinso...
20: ...n. Despite his interest in this phenomenon, he disdained experimental work as in [[physics]]. He went ...
24: When in November 1640 the [[Long Parliament]] succeeded to the Short, H...
30: ...rbiere]] through the [[Elzevir press]] at [[Amsterdam]] with a new preface and some new notes in reply... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
1: ...closely studied from his time down to the present day. Descartes was one of the key thinkers of the S...
6: ...n Locke|Locke]], [[George Berkeley|Berkeley]] & [[David Hume|Hume]]. Leibniz, Spinoza, and Descartes w...
16: ...ivotal point in young Descartes' life and the foundation on which he develops analytical geometry. He...
22: ...d on [[August 7]] of the same year. She died in [[1640]].
35: ...irst Philosophy]]'' he attempts to arrive at a fundamental set of principles that one can know as true... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}} - Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordata]]}}
9: ...xobox_authority | author = [[Lorenz Oken|Oken]] | date = [[1816]]}}
17: ...the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. The boundary between the two species is formed by the [[Cong...
26: ... but is generally lighter in younger individuals, darkening as maturity is reached. Bonobos have long...
32: ... Prince of [[House of Orange-Nassau|Orange]] in [[1640]] and was followed by a few of its brethren over ... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
45: ...sition as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empire was also commonly referred t...
47: ...ised an area of over [[1 E13 m?|19.9m km²]]—though much of this was under indirect control ...
66: ...ng the [[Turkish War of Independence]] ([[1918]]–[[1923]]), and the [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]...
83: ...50) and the Ottoman Penal code (1858).” (Haddad, Y.Y., Byron H. and Ellison F., Eds.) - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
5: ...dolf Hitler]] referred to [[Nazi Germany]] (1933–1945) as the Third Reich.
15: ...g Forest]]. Germany as far as the Rhine and the [[Danube]] remained outside the [[Roman Empire]].
17: ...e Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier.
32: ...ce-elector]]s of the Holy Roman Empire. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Paul Kn? (18...
43: ...n Emperor|Henry V]] and the Pope with the [[Concordat of Worms]]. The consequences of the investiture ...
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