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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly tho...
5: ... His good name in Saint-Malo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfat...
13: ... he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[...
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536==
17: ...Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has been confi... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
1: ...e:Seal of Margaret I of Denmark 1381 and 1403.png|frame|[[Seal (device)|Seal]] of Margaret I of Denmar...
4: ...und in [[Schleswig-Holstein]], and Margaret, free from all fear of domestic sedition, could now give h...
6: ...ebruary 24]] [[1389]], Albrecht, who had returned from Mecklenburg with an army of mercenaries, was ro...
16: ...f the Danish state, and national aspirations were frowned upon or checked, though Norway, as being mor...
22: ...sh territory. [[Gotlandia|Gotland]] she purchased from its actual possessors, Albert of Mecklenburg an... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To ...
13: ... who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or not he had the disea...
15: ..., [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], as well a...
17: ...ovided that the Princess Mary should marry either Francis or his second son, [[Henry, Duke of Orl顮s]...
19: ... with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
15: ...yal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would not n...
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off. - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
56: ...vs. Federal Republic of Germany or [[France]] vs. French Republic.
63: ...tained a chain of outposts around the [[Danube]]. From 20 to 50 AD, the Kingdom of [[Vannius]], a barb...
67: ...hs]] (from the 14th century), and [[Hungarians]] (from the late Middle Ages).
69: A huge population loss resulted from the invasion of the [[Mongols]] in 1241 and the...
71: ...especially in rural areas. As the Turks retreated from Hungary in the 18th century, Slovakia's influen... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...m'''. In the [[13th century]], the Caribs arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing bot...
11: ...ght resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|...
13: ...the Caribbean coast found the island uninhabited. From the arrival of the first British settlers in [[...
15: ...o work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[slave trade]] ceased a few years before...
19: ...dos was made in [[1951]], when universal adult suffrage was introduced. This was followed by steps tow... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
69: ...d]] by the [[Acts of Union 1536-1543|Act of Union 1536]]. With the [[Act of Union 1707]], the separate k... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...[[Hispanic]] ancestry, many of whom are descended from [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[colonist]]s. It al...
46: ...ld. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] led a full-scale exp...
50: ..."The Royal Road" as a 700 mile (1100 km) lifeline from the rest of [[New Spain]] to his remote colony....
58: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] of [[France]] sold the vast [[Louisiana Purchase]], which...
60: Small trapping parties from the United States had previously reached Santa ... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]]. - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
1: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus]]
8: ...cus' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictin...
14: ...of Warmia and Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for t...
16: ...o complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where i...
18: ...e end of his studies, he came to live and work in Frombork. Some time before his return to [[Warmia]],... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terrestrial [[globe]]. Later, Me...
15: ...gh introducing a number of new errors). Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] were a...
22: ...ra'' (Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations on the Frame for the World and its Form) by Gerardus Mercat... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
6: ...s cared for by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the ...
8: ...in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in t...
10: ...e Press|Aldus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Ital...
12: ...]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Europe. - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
7: ...ally became a merchant, which allowed him freedom from his enslavement and to travel among the tribes....
15: ...lden Hind, which is the name of the ship that Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world in.
25: ... his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536''], hosted by the Portal to Texas History - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
5: The oldest surviving archeological artifacts from Slovakia have been carbon dated to 270,000 BCE,...
7: Other stone tools from the [[Middle Palaeolithic|Middle Paleolithic Er...
9: ... Pieštany. Numerous necklaces made of shells from Cypraca thermophile [[Gastropoda|gastropods]] o...
11: From an archeological standpoint, the discovery of d...
13: ... years by the same tribes who created the pottery from the Massif Bukov頨ory. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...as killed on the orders of the [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco Pizarro]], marking the beginning of [[Span...
11: The foreign name '''Inca Empire''' is derived from the word '''Inca''', which means "[[Emperor]]."...
19: ... ordered Manco Capac and [[Mama Ocllo]] to emerge from the depths of [[Lake Titicaca]] and found the c...
42: ... subject tribes. Cuzco was definitively lost in [[1536]]. The Inca leadership retreated to the mountain ...
82: ...in a [[ceremony]] to mark their [[manhood]]. Boys from noble families were subjected to many different... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Computer display (4276 bytes)
11: ...048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a variety of [[refresh rate]]s.
24: ...by [[Microsoft]] ([[ClearType]], [[1998]]) and [[XFree86]] ([[X Rendering Extension]]).
26: ...delay causes an apparent corresponding shift of a fraction of a [[pixel]].
45: * [[Refresh rate]]
47: * [[XFree86]] - Chile (39914 bytes)
39: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 18]], [[1810]]<br>[[Fe...
56: ... Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chilli."
64: ...ed in [[1541]] by [[Pedro de Valdivia]], one of [[Francisco Pizarro]]'s lieutenants. Although the Span...
66: ...f [[slavery]] in [[1683]] defused tensions on the frontier between the colony and the Mapuche land to ...
68: The drive for independence from Spain was precipitated by usurpation of the Spa...
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