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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ... at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who would b...
7: ...talian peninsula, while Clement, ever needful of help against his too powerful protector, was equally ...
11: ...April 1]], [[1560]] she named as chancellor [[Michel de l'H?al]], who advocated a policy of conciliati...
15: ...oderate counsels of l'H?al to avoid siding definitely with either party, but her character and the hab...
17: ... her favourite son, the duke of Anjou, to Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]], but that did not come abou... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
10: ... led to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her kingdom.
12: ...hole led to the outbreak of the [[French Wars of Religion]] in [[1562]]. Antoine de Bourbon chose to s...
14: ... and Jeanne fled to the Huguenot city of [[La Rochelle]]. From here she conducted peace negotiations, ...
27: * Madeleine ([[1556]])
28: * [[Catherine de Bourbon]] ([[1559]]-[[1604]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
5: ...' Medici]], Diane de Poitiers would remain his lifelong true love. They had one daughter born in 1538 ...
9: ...l into her fifties, Diane possessed an extreme intellect and a political astuteness to the point that ...
11: ...au Chenonceau]] that Catherine had wanted for herself.
13: ... she was also not invited to the funeral. Immediately thereafter, Catherine de' Medici banished Diane ...
15: ...e for her, her daughter completed the funeral chapel built near the chⴥau. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and w...
17: ... Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and...
22: Mary was crowned as Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[154...
24: ...y Lord Livingston in solemn procession to the Chapel Royal. Inside, Lord Livingston brought Mary forwa...
26: ...rd of State was presented by the [[Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll|Earl of Argyll]], and the Ca... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...'Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...d|Mary I]]. She reigned during a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... last quality, viewed with impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital m...
11: ... reduced the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to ...
13: ... member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ...red by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Israel]] on the south.
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32: | [[Najib Mikati]] (resigned after parliamentary elections)
59: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...as]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. ...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
18: ...f [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
22: *[[1818]] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Pr...
25: ...laim under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]]. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...d of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roma...
6: ...Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (religion)|Primate]] of [[Italy]], [[Archbishop]] and ...
74: | '''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
75: | '''Telesphorus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
109: | '''[[Pope Eleuterus]]'''<br><small>Saint Eleutherus</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...ublic]])) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the t...
12: ...at he began to make his own studies of astronomy helped by some of the professors. He purchased an [[e...
16: ...arge the existing instruments, and construct entirely new ones. Tycho's naked eye measurements of plan...
18: ...his nose. A consequence of this was that Tycho developed an interest in [[medicine]] and [[alchemy]]. ...
22: ... to Augsburg, where he built a great quadrant, Basel, and Freiburg. He was informed about his father's... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...e Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...name and started signing his paintings as '''Bruegel'''.
5: ...hen returned to Antwerp before settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. He died there on [...
7: ...ter Brueghel the Younger]] and [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] who both became painters, but as they were s...
9: ...when the context does not make clear which "Brueghel" is being referred to. - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
10: ... [[Martin Luther]], [[Johann Tetzel]], [[Philipp Melanchthon]], [[Indulgences]], ''[[95 Theses]]'', [...
20: ...g disaffection with the wealth and power of the [[elite]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to th...
22: ...trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking f...
24: ...herlands]] and new textile industries began to develop.
28: ...and God. New thinking favored the notion that no religious [[doctrine]] can be supported by philosophi... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1:
3: ...s head there. In the prologue to his great story relating his shipwreck and wanderings in North Americ...
5: ...ve [[Estevanico]], Andres de Dorantes and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado were the only survivors of the...
7: ...ight prepare them for the hardships they would surely face.
9: ...South America, which bound with his earlier ''La Relación'' and published under the title ''Comentari... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...[[Peace of Longjumeau]] ends the [[Second War of Religion]] in [[France]]. Again [[Catherine de Medici...
9: ...[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Patrick Henry]] delivers his famous speech - "[[give me liberty or gi...
10: ...ally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
11: *[[1806]] - After traveling through the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and reachin...
14: *[[1857]] - [[Elisha Otis]]'s first [[elevator]] is installed at 488 Broadway, [[New York ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ica...
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
19: *[[Selman Akbulut]] (Turkey) - Lent (7959 bytes)
5: ...of Lent, is discussed [[Easter#The_date_of_Easter|elsewhere]]. Roughly speaking, Lent starts near the ...
7: ...manic]] origin of the word ''Lent'' originally merely signified the spring renewal. It specifically si...
9: Whereas Easter celebrates the [[resurrection of Jesus]] after his de...
13: ...ason of grief that necessarily ends with a great celebration of Easter, it is known in Eastern Orthodo...
15: ...he Lenten season; it is replaced before the [[Gospel]] reading by a Lenten acclamation. - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...urgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and his succes...
14: See also: [[Timeline of medicine and medical technology]].
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