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- Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
6: ...y II]] Jeanne was married to Antoine de Bourbon, "first prince of the blood," who would become heir to...
10: ...rs which led to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her kingdom.
12: ...ne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] now became "first prince of the blood."
14: ...e conducted peace negotiations, and in [[1570]] official talks began to marry Henry to the king's sist...
28: ...04]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]] in [[1599]]. - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
12: ...ld take seven years, but they were concluded in [[1599]] with an agreement that allowed her to maintain ...
18: ==Marguerite de Valois in fiction==
20: ...vel was famously adapted into a [[1994]] [[French film]], ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 movie)|La Reine Ma... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
372: *[[Anthony van Dyck|Sir Anthony van Dyck]] ([[1599]]-[[1641]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-) - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
1: ...97.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Carl Larsson]], ''Crayfishing'', watercolor, 1897]]
14: ... painted watercolors in the [[15th century]]. The first school of watercolor painting in Europe was le...
16: ...ork with [[oil paint]], including [[van Dyck]] ([[1599]]-[[1641]]), [[Thomas Gainsborough]] ([[1727]]-[[...
25: ...the colorant to the painting surface. Unpigmented filler is added to gouache to lend opacity to the pa...
31: ...t and is reflected back to the viewer through the film. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...arl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
15: ... of the T?n faculty. However, before he took his final exams he was recommended for the vacant post o...
19: In December [[1599]], [[Tycho Brahe]] wrote to Kepler, inviting Kepl...
23: ...ograph on the origins of [[snow|snowflakes]], the first known work on the subject. He correctly theori...
25: ...ed. He initially rejected this idea, but later confirmed it on [[May 15]] of the same year. - 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]]
21: ...[[Walter Raleigh]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]], the first English settlement in the New World, in the [[...
28: <td align="center"><B>Beginnings to 1599</B><BR>[[History of the United States]]</td> - August (4611 bytes)
10: ...till regarded as the first day of [[Autumn]]. The first Monday in August is one of the [[public holida...
14: In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''elokuu'', meaning "...
18: ...rd]] (1596); the First [[Battle of Curlew Pass]] (1599); the [[Battle of Dungans Hill]] (1647); the [[Ba...
22: ...shima and [[August 9]] bombing of Nagasaki in the first and only use of nuclear weapons against people...
38: ...brate the National Week of the [[Tagalog language|Filipino]] Language. - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
9: ...for a while, but these theories have not been verified.
18: ... [[Vulcanalia]], the festival of the Roman god of fire.
30: ...us campaign was started to unearth them. Giuseppe Fiorelli took charge of the excavations in 1860. It ...
36: ... are used to seeing in Roman towns, due to the difficult terrain. But its streets are straight and lai...
43: An important current field of research concerns structures that were bein... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ... Tycho's father, a [[nobleman]], was an important figure in the [[Denmark|Danish]] King's court. [[Bea...
33: ...ntained since [[antiquity]] that the world of the fixed stars was eternal and unchangeable (a fundamen...
38: ... of the [[solar system]]. Tycho believed in a modified [[geocentric model]] known as the [[Tychonian s...
43: ...rway]], impressed with Tycho's 1572 observations, financed the construction of two observatories for T...
45: ... king of his country, he moved to [[Prague]] in [[1599]]. Sponsored by [[Rudolf II|Rudolf II]], the [[Ho... - Venice (22017 bytes)
6: ... other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriati...
10: ...r west as the [[Adda River]], were known as "Terrafirma", and were acquired partly as a buffer against...
12: ...]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the men, supplies, and (especial...
16: ... [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resign the office and retire into [[monastery|monastic]] seclusio...
24: ...that Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly influencing [[art]... - March 22 (9294 bytes)
10: ...nt]] passes the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], the first direct tax levied from [[England]] on the Amer...
12: ...governor of a [[U.S. state]] to be removed from office by [[impeachment]].
14: *[[1894]] - The first playoff game for the [[Stanley Cup]] starts.
15: *[[1895]] - First display (a private screening) of [[motion pict...
23: ...onard Schawlow]] & [[Charles Townes]] receive the first [[patent]] for a [[laser]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}} - Dust Bowl (5196 bytes)
6: ...ed unsuitable for use was developed to capture profits from the war. After the land had been stripped...
11: ...dust clouds blew all the way to [[Chicago]] where filth fell like snow, dumping the equivalent of four...
13: ...night. Witnesses reported that they could not see five feet in front of them at certain points.
15: ...ed States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s first 100 days, governmental programs to restore the...
28: ...st Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression'', , Paul Bonnifield, [[University of New Mexico]] Press, [[Albuque...
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