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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]''
8: ...policies, however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]...
10: ... I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approximately the same time.
13: ...ife had again failed to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daught...
15: ...ct, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...th Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. There are 364 days remaining (365 in [[leap year]]s).
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
13: *[[1700]] - [[Russia]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - Rhodes (9349 bytes)
1: :''The Greek island of Rhodes..''
3: ...pg|thumb|right|250px|''Outside the city walls of the medieval city of Rhodes'' Photograph provided by ...
5: ...d of the Province of Rhodes, which also includes the nearby islands of [[Symi]], [[Tilos]], [[Halki]],...
7: ...rs of the World]]. The medieval city is a [[World Heritage Site]].
10: ...i. The road network radiates from the city along the east and west coasts. - List of popes (77758 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ... source counts [[#Notes on numbering of popes|Stephen II]].
6: ...rovince'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
7: ...overeign]] in the State of the [[Vatican City]] (the [[Holy See]]).
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...t also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]] within the Roman Catholic Church.
3: == Roots of the Reformation ==
4: ...ovements: [[Cathar]]ism, [[Waldensian]]ism, and others
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schism|Great Sch...
7: * [[Northern Renaissance]] - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...nds|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanist]] and [[theology|theologian]].
6: ...attack in his lifelong assault upon the evils of the Church.
8: ...the rest of his life as an English [[professor]]. He stayed at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] and may ...
10: ...dus Manutius]] at [[Venice]], but apart from this he had a less active association with Italian schola...
12: ... the great publisher [[Froben]], and to him came the multitude of his admirers from all quarters of Eu... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ned to Spain in [[1522]], having circumnavigated the globe.
5: ...s brother Diogo de Sousa, named after his grandmother, and his sister Isabel.
7: ...eography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some speculate that he may even have been taught by [[Martin Behaim]]. I...
9: ...ay tribute, Almeida's party attacked, conquering the [[Muslim]] city of [[Kilwa]] in present-day [[Tan...
11: ... secretly sailing a ship east without permission, he lost his command and was forced to return to Port... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: The famous [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language...
7: *[[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi]] (Arab mathematician, ? - ?)
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
13: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann]] (Germany, [[1896]] - [[1962]])
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]]... - Malta (18511 bytes)
42: |From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[September 21]], [[1964...
50: |'''[[National anthem]]'''
62: ...een ruled and fought over by various powers over the centuries.
69: ... noble titles remain in use today, of which the oldest is ''Barons of Djar il Bniet and Buqana''.
71: ... particularly in the Inner-harbour region, where the new city of [[Valletta]], named after Jean Pariso... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
3: subject_name=Martin Luther |
4: image_name=Luther46c.jpg |
5: image_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) |
12: ...dly impacted upon the [[Counter-Reformation]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]].
14: ...e 13]], [[1525]] to [[Katharina von Bora]] began the tradition of [[clerical marriage]] within several... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...ereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to this tradition.
5: ...f [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...nded into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soon grew into a substantial force.
9: ...ar [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], subdivided i...
15: ...trol a number of neighboring islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
1: :''For other meanings of '''Pacific''', see [[Pacific (disamb...
3: ...it of Malacca]]. The lowest point on earth—the [[Mariana Trench]]—lies some 10,911 m (35,7...
5: ...bined), the majority of which are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Islands]].)
7: ...links the Pacific with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the east.
9: ... the islands of the Pacific and the lands around the Pacific rim are full of [[volcano]]es and often r... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
3: ...o-Remington.jpg|thumb|right|Coronado Sets Out to the North, by [[Frederic Remington]], 1861-1909]]
5: ...een 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to conquer the mythical [[Seven Cities of Gold]].
8: ...), [[Dame]] of the Queen [[Isabel I of Castile]]. He was an uncle of [[Juan Vázquez de Coronado y Ana...
11: ...ent hidden as I can find no reliable source on either side of this question, just lots of blogs and su...
13: ==Mounting the expedition== - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas]].
4: ...endoza]]. Cortés returned to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ...riptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...sh and English languages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
14: ...hird Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrigo de Monroy y Almaraz, 5th ...
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