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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...terina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici''', and later lived in [[France]] under the name '''Catherin...
5: ... of Urbino, and a French princess, [[Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne]]. Having lost both her parents a...
7: ...n at court, and it seemed possible that Francis, alarmed at the possible extinction of his royal house...
11: ...of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary, Queen of Scots]], little disposed to medd...
13: ...primary means of support was the [[corset]], with laces and stays made of whalebone or metal. They for... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
4: ...t this political marriage was annulled four years later.
10: ...guered [[Huguenot]] ministers which led to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her ki...
14: ... in [[Paris]] two months before the wedding took place.
28: * [[Catherine de Bourbon]] ([[1559]]-[[1604]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of Lorraine]...
39: ==Related Topics== - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
5: ...mistress of the then 16-year-old Henri d'Orl顮s, later to be [[Henry II of France|King Henri II]]. Al...
9: ...et to present the royal mistress with a pearl necklace.
11: ...f jealousy on the part of Queen Catherine, particularly when Henri entrusted Diane with the Crown Jewe...
13: In [[1559]], when Henri was critically wounded in a [[joust...
15: ...rdance with her wishes, and to provide a resting place for her, her daughter completed the funeral cha... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...[Image:stuart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
7: ...''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July...
9: ...ith her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately t...
12: ...[[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]]. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...uring a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She gr...
11: ...y Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succ... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
3: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
8: ...dth="140" | [[Image:Lebanon flag large.png|125px|Flag of Lebanon]]
11: | align="center" width="140" | ([[Flag of Lebanon|In Detail]])
19: | '''[[Official language]]'''
20: | [[Arabic language|Arabic]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impress...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ngland began its numbered year on [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th ...
7: ...nown [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
11: ... II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ... high spiritual leaders, this title in [[English language|English]] usage generally refers to the sup...
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17: ! width="12%" | Place of Birth
35: | <small>[[Tuscany|Tuscia]] (Northern Latium)</small>
105: | <small>[[Fondi]], Latium, Italy</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: ...His twin brother was [[stillborn]] (Tycho wrote a Latin ode (Wittendorf 1994, p. 68) to his dead twin ...
10: ...stle to which they moved, and where Tycho began a Latin education until he was 12 years old.
12: ...e]] which occurred on August 21, [[1560]], particularly the fact that it had been predicted, that so i...
14: ''I've studied all available charts of the planets and stars and none of them match the others. ...
16: ...ycho's naked eye measurements of planetary [[parallax]] were accurate to the [[arcminute]]. (These mea... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
3: ...f [[Bree]], called Breda in Latin, is meant. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started sign...
5: ...ore settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. He died there on [[9 September]], [[1569]].
9: Bruegel specialised in landscapes populated by [[peasant]]s, painted in a simpler style th...
11: ... backdrop to a religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the...
14: ...umb|300px|Bruegel's ''Netherlandish Proverbs'', [[1559]], with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 [[pr... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
10: ...hon]], [[Indulgences]], ''[[95 Theses]]'', [[Nicolaus Von Amsdorf]]
14: * [[John Knox]] and [[Scotland]]
20: ... to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Renaissance]] church.
22: ...tions on the exercise of their authority. In [[England]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] the move toward ce...
24: ...anded in [[France]], [[Germany]], and the [[Netherlands]] and new textile industries began to develop. - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
1:
3: ... head there. In the prologue to his great story relating his shipwreck and wanderings in North America...
5: ...lorers termed ''Malhado'', or Island of Doom) but later escaped and eventually reached [[Mexico City]]...
7: ...s later published in 1542, under the title ''La Relación'' (The Report). Cabeza de Vaca desired to s...
9: ...outh America, which bound with his earlier ''La Relación'' and published under the title ''Comentario... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
8: *[[1708]] - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Forth]].
10: ...trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
11: ...ing the [[Pacific Ocean]], explorers [[Lewis and Clark]] and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their ar...
13: ...rs for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]]. [[Otago]] province is founded.
15: ... California]] when the Organic Act is signed into law. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ... [[mathematician]]s are listed below in [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteratio...
15: *[[Robert Adrain]] (Ireland)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
20: *[[Yousef Alavi]]
29: ...nderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]]) - Lent (7959 bytes)
7: ...efore Easter, which is preserved in the [[Romance languages]]' terms for the Lenten season. Lent is al...
9: ...rucifixion]] by [[Roman Empire|Rome]]. This took place around the year [[29]] of the [[Common Era]] in...
15: ...aced before the [[Gospel]] reading by a Lenten acclamation.
18: ...nified at a [[Carnival]] celebration. Detail of [[1559]] painting "''The Battle between Carnival and Len...
20: ... the season of fasting if only because they are a last opportunity for excess before Lent begins. The ... - Realdo Colombo (996 bytes)
1: ...urgeon at the University of [[Padua]] ([[1544]]-[[1559]]). He was a pupil of [[Vesalius]] and his succes...
12: ...of blood]]. Harvey studied in Padua some 50 years later.
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