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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
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52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
59: ...rimarily [[United Kingdom|British]], came in such fields as railroads and ports. As in the [[United St...
63: ...ionized workers. In [[1947]], Pernnounced the first 5-year plan based on the growth of industries ...
65: ...is allowed the government to imprison persons indefinitely without charge. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
9: *[[1497]]-[[John Cabot]] is the first European since the [[Viking]]s to reach the No...
13: ...alboa]] crosses isthmus of [[Panama]], sees [[Pacific Ocean]]
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France...
21: ...[[Walter Raleigh]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]], the first English settlement in the New World, in the [[... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
10: ...n his duties would have included representative offices for the court; for instance, he accompanied hi...
13: Urbino was at that time the most refined and elegant among [[Italy|Italian]] courts, a ...
15: ...eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts th...
21: ...[[1521]] Pope Leo X conceded him the ''tonsura'' (first sacerdotal ceremony) and here begins Castiglio...
23: In [[1524]] [[Pope Clement VII]] sent him to [[Spain]] as '... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...dern science itself, (it inaugurated the [[scientific revolution]]). His theory affected many other as...
10: ...versities of [[Bologna]] and [[Padua]]. His uncle financed his education and wished for him to become ...
12: The first observation Copernicus made in [[1497]] togeth...
16: ...Ancients on the movement of the Earth, having the first intuition of his theory. His collection of obs...
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
20: ...e]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Rena...
22: ...o trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking...
24: ...ulation to reach its former levels in the late <b>fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,</b> the combinati...
28: ...impatience among reformers. [[Erasmus]] and later figures like [[Martin Luther|Luther]] and [[Zwingli]...
30: ...sm caught on in the universities, requiring a redefinition of God, who was no longer a rational govern... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
4: ... created by [[fishermen]] who returned to port to find the area surrounding the [[harbor|harbour]] dev...
14: ... earthquakes; as well as collapses of volcanic edifices, may also disturb the overlying water column a...
21: ...lves of water. The leading edge of a tsunami superficially resembles a breaking wave but behaves diffe...
32: ... in the open ocean but the wave would still be difficult to outrun.
36: ...mi that hit Hawaii on [[April 1]], [[1946]] had a fifteen-minute interval between wave fronts. The nat... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
6: ...[[monk|monastic]] vows at about the age of twenty-five, but he never seems to have worked as a priest,...
8: ...[[England]], and [[Basel]]; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of these. His time in England was ...
10: ..., preferring the uncertain, but, as it proved, sufficient, rewards of independent literary activity. F...
14: ...ement of his time. He corresponded with more than five hundred men of the highest importance in the wo...
16: ... [[1516]] and was the basis of most of the scientific study of the Bible during the Reformation period... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ... [[1607]], Hudson set sail on the ''Hopewell'' to find a northeast passage to [[Asia]] through the [[A...
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R...
13: Excitement was high that a ship had finally found the [[Northwest Passage]], and on June... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
23: ...k near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[[Saint Anne]]! I'll becom...
25: ==Luther's struggle to find peace with God==
31: ... most important of these was the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
37: Luther's first public challenge of papal power came in [[1517...
41: ...eter's Basilica]], agreed that Albert could pay a fine for the violation and keep both sees. Albert wo... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...e generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Ame...
6: ...greatly expanded concern for human rights, as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to exp...
14: ...fe and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, first cousin of Pizarro's father. Through his father...
18: ...ng period of training and experience as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would ...
20: ...ixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provinc... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
7: *[[1459]] - The [[Battle of Blore Heath]]. The first major battle of the English [[Wars of the Rose...
9: *[[1642]] - First commencement exercises occur at [[Harvard Univ...
10: ...ard]]'', commanded by [[John Paul Jones]], wins a fight against the British ships of war ''[[Serapis]]...
13: ...Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
14: ...1845]] - The [[Knickerbocker Baseball Club]], the first professional [[baseball]] team, is founded in ...
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