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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
111: *[[Vasco da Gama]], (1469?-1524), [[Portuguese]] navigator, first to reach [[Indi...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
46: ... if the distances were calculated in Roman miles (1524 meters or 5,000 feet) rather than [[nautical mile... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
63: ... number of unionized workers. In [[1947]], Pernnounced the first 5-year plan based on the growth o...
65: ...irst time in 10 years. Peras prevented from running, but voters elected his stand-in, Dr. [[H飴or...
73: ...t a new president within 3 months. Rodr�ez Saᠡnnounced immediately that Argentina would default on... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Port...
42: ... it. At the end of the [[1200s|13th]] and the beginning of the [[1300s|14th]] centuries, those who tri...
47: ...no son and heir to the throne, decided to go personnaly into battle, where he was slain. Because [[Phi...
57: ...is㯠Constitucional, preamble}}India invaded and annexed [[Portuguese India]] in [[1961]]. Independenc...
61: ...rica. In the same year [[Indonesia]] invaded and annexed the Portuguese province of [[Portuguese Timor... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
14: ...[[Linus Yale, Jr.|Yale, Linus Jr.]] (1821-1868), innovator of locks
34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
73: *[[Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
91: ...o Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]]
99: *[[Yoannis I of Alexandria]], ([[496]]-[[505]]), Coptic Po... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
55: *[[Anna Ancher]] ([[1859]]-[[1935]])
75: *[[Ivan Ayvazovsky|Hovhannes Ayvazovski]] ([[1817]]-[[1900]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
94: *[[Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]] ([[1591]]-[[1666]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France]], explores...
28: <td align="center"><B>Beginnings to 1599</B><BR>[[History of the United States... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
15: ...etry, with recalls [[Vergil]], [[Poliziano]], [[Sannazzaro]].
23: ... it was his duty to investigate what Spain was planning against the Eternal City.
32: ... Bembo]]'s ones. Pre-romantics will find in his sonnet ''Superbi colli e voi, sacre ruine'' a focal in... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o...
30: ...eed to give the book to his close friend [[Tiedemann Giese]], (the [[bishop]] of [[Chelmno Land]], to ...
51: This book marks the beginning of the shift from a [[geocentric universe|geoc...
55: ...leo Galilei|Galileo]], [[Tycho Brahe]], and [[Johannes Kepler]], who adopted, championed and (especial...
64: ...ing (its apparent moving during daytime, and its annual moving through the Zodiac) are nothing else th... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
10: * [[Martin Luther]], [[Johann Tetzel]], [[Philipp Melanchthon]], [[Indulgences]...
15: ...mas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [[Anabaptists]], [[Menno Simons]]
22: ...s for economic diversification and technological innovations. Following the [[Black Death]], the initi...
28: ...nately for the church, the crisis of theology beginning with [[William of Ockham]] in the fourteenth c...
30: ... institutions of the church meant to provide a channel for man to do good works and get into [[heaven]... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...sunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: ...lometres long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in th...
28: ...n less than one metre. This is often practically unnoticeable to people on ships. The energy of a tsun...
45: Tsunamis cannot be prevented or precisely predicted, but there ...
55: ...inutes or hours before a tsunami strikes shore (Kenneally, [http://www.slate.com/id/2111608]''). - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
16: ...'. The edition included a Latin translation and annotations. It used recently rediscovered additional...
23: ... ''De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio'' ([[1524]]), he analyzes with great cleverness and good hu...
32: ...ic. The [[anti-sacramentarian]]s, headed by [[Johannes Oecolampadius|Œcolampadius]] of [[Basel]]...
46: ...stic world are among those translated, edited or annotated by Erasmus, including as Saint [[Ambrose]],...
58: ...e: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Desiderius Erasmus. London: Camb... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R...
17: ...have been lost, but an account was given by [[Johannes de Laet]] in his work ''Nieuwe Wereldt ofte bes... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
19: ...born to Hans and Margaretha Luder, ''n饧' Lindemann, on [[November 10]], [[1483]] in [[Eisleben]], [...
23: ...o school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[[Saint Anne]]! I'll become a monk!" [Brecht, vol. 1, p. 48]....
28: [[Johann von Staupitz]][http://newadvent.org/cathen/14283a...
31: ...s]]. It is only this righteousness that makes a sinner just before God. Terms like ''[[penance]]'' an...
41: ...n All Saints' Day ([[November 1]]), and Tetzel planned to be there too. - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...uence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
7: ...se consult the ''main articles'' given at the beginning of the sections and subsections. The [[History...
15: ...feated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of the Teutoburg Forest|Teutobur...
17: ... of a number of large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thu...
21: ...kingdom]]. In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the s... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...uence upon Western civilization from its very beginnings.
7: ...se consult the ''main articles'' given at the beginning of the sections and subsections. The [[History...
15: ...feated by the Cheruscan leader [[Arminius]] (Hermann) in the [[Battle of the Teutoburg Forest|Teutobur...
17: ... of a number of large West Germanic tribes - Alemanni, Franks, Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thu...
21: ...kingdom]]. In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the s... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
47: ...ships, 500 men, 13 horses and a small number of cannons, he landed in the Yucatan Peninsula in [[Mayan...
49: ...ust 1519, along with 600 men, 15 horsemen, 15 [[cannon]]s, and hundreds of indigenous carriers and war...
55: ... thus renaming the city Mexico City. From 1521 to 1524, Cortés personally governed Mexico.
60: ...r Cortés, besides recalling in a rather abrupt manner that the conquest of Mexico was due to him alon...
62: ...sing the ''[[encomienda]]'' land tenure system in 1524. He also supported efforts to [[The Roman Catholi... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
5: ...g-distance race (run by [[Phidippides (Marathon runner)|Phidippides]])
8: *[[1529]] - [[Siege of Vienna]] begins as [[Suleiman II]] begins his attack on...
15: ...ouch Adams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
17: *[[1875]] - [[William Bonney]] ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first t...
19: *[[1912]] - First [[Mack Sennett]] "Keystone Comedy" is released.
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