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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
111: *[[Vasco da Gama]], (1469?-1524), [[Portuguese]] navigator, first to reach [[Indi...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: ... if the distances were calculated in Roman miles (1524 meters or 5,000 feet) rather than [[nautical mile...
54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
61: ... necessary, the governments of the [[1930s]] attempted to contain the currents of economic and politic...
67: ...by the [[United Kingdom]] in an unsuccessful attempt to seize the [[Falkland Islands|Falklands/Malvina...
71: ...most of the 1990s. Unfortunately, widespread corruption in the administrations of President Menem and ...
128: ...sed by the effects of the monetary policy which kept the US dollar exchange rate artificially low, the... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
31: ...nding loss of independence to Castile was not accepted by the majority of the Portuguese people, which...
40: In [[1418]] two captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, were driven by...
85: ...l Europe during Napoleon's era. The alliance is kept through [[NATO]], a military organisation in whic...
93: ... mainland Portugal. Download an [http://www.igeoe.pt/downloads/500mil/500mil_24bits2.zip official map]...
127: ...and rises 14 m bellow the sea surface. It last erupted in 1720 and formed an island, it remained above... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
10: *[[Yakub of Alexandria]] (819-830), Coptic Pope
99: ...[[Yoannis I of Alexandria]], ([[496]]-[[505]]), Coptic Pope
100: ...[Yoannis II of Alexandria]], ([[505]]-[[516]]), Coptic Pope
101: ...Yoannis III of Alexandria]], ([[681]]-[[689]]), Coptic Pope
102: ...[Yoannis IV of Alexandria]], ([[776]]-[[799]]), Coptic Pope - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
23: In [[1524]] [[Pope Clement VII]] sent him to [[Spain]] as '... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o...
30: ...ticus, and having seen that the first general reception of his work had not been favorable, Copernicus...
46: ...ted Aristarchus and Philolaus in an early manuscript of his book which has survived, stating: "Philola...
51: ...other motion to the Earth, by which the axis is kept pointed throughout the year at the same place in ...
53: ...hemerides]] than the then current tables based on Ptolemy's model. Furthermore, he badly underestimate... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches]], and [[Anabaptist]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]]...
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schi...
15: ...rmers -- [[Thomas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [[Anabaptists]], [[Menno Simons]]
20: ...ng the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Renaissance]] church.
32: ...mony and ritual. Going back to ancient texts, scriptures, from this viewpoint the greatest culmination... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...e. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have t...
10: ... such as an [[earthquake]], [[volcano|volcanic eruption]], [[landslide]] or [[meteorite impact]]. Howe...
12: ...namis can be generated when the [[sea floor]] abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying ...
14: ...floor. Similarly, a violent submarine volcanic eruption can uplift the water column and generate a tsu...
21: ...g.png|thumb|right|300px|There is a common misconception that tsunamis behave like wind-driven waves or... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
8: ... Margaret's Professor of Divinity]], and had the option of spending the rest of his life as an English...
16: .... The text later became known as the ''textus receptus''. Erasmus published three other editions - in ...
17: It was the first attempt on the part of a competent and liberal-minded sch...
23: ... ''De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio'' ([[1524]]), he analyzes with great cleverness and good hu...
27: ...e the outcome of reform, he was thankful he had kept out of it. Yet he was being ever more bitterly ac... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ... His place and date of birth are unknown, but [[September 12]], [[1570]] in England seems likely, and ...
3: ...as [[Jan Mayen Island]] before reaching home in September.
7: ...vanni da Verrazano]] explored the same coast in [[1524]])–and sailing a distance up the [[Hudson R...
17: ...inghe van West-Indien'' (''New World or the description of West India'') from [[1625]]. The same situa... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
5: image_caption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 15...
19: ..., [[1483]] in [[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast day of [[Martin of Tours|St. Mar...
31: ...h;he immersed himself in the teachings of the Scripture and the early church. Luther recounted that hi...
39: ... and was disgusted at the Papacy's greed and corruption.
53: ...ctrine of excommunication, he was led by his concept of the way of salvation to the new tenet that the... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
82: In 1524 the [[Peasants' War]] broke out in [[Swabia]], [[...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
12: ...nelius Tacitus]], author of ''Germania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman fr...
21: .... In 496 AD the Franks defeated the Alemanni, accepted the Catholic faith and so gained the support of...
69: ...e Holy Roman Emperor until [[1806]] (with the exception of the years between [[1742]] and [[1745]]). H...
82: In 1524 the [[Peasants' War]] broke out in [[Swabia]], [[...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ... founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an ex...
6: ...al. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either ...
14: ...a Cortés, was an [[infantry]] [[Captain (OF-2)|captain]] of distinguished ancestry but slender means....
20: ..., and mischievous. This was probably a fair description of a sixteen-year-old boy who had returned hom...
38: ...decided to send him help. Cortés was appointed captain-general of this new expedition in October 1518... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
1: September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in [[...
3: {{SeptemberCalendar}}
15: *[[1846]] - Discovery of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] by French astronomer [[Urbain Le Verrier|Urb...
89: ...573]] - [[Azai Hisamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1524]])
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