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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...in an era when women painters were not easily accepted, she became the first female painter to become ...
24: ...ence, Artemisia enjoyed huge success. She was accepted in the ''Accademia del Disegno'' (''"Academy of...
46: ...ly relocated to [[Naples]] and stayed there - except for only a brief trip to [[London]] and some othe...
88: ...onisba Anguissola]] (Born in [[Cremona]] around [[1530]] - [[Palermo]] around [[1625]]), who was called ...
94: ...[Roberto Longhi]]. Her first draft of the manuscripts, dated [[1944]], got lost during the war. The de... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
1: '''Grace O' Malley''' ([[Irish]](c. [[1530]] -c.[[1603]]) is an important figure in Irish [[...
11: ...warlike Donal was killed in battle, and Grace recaptured a castle from the Joyces that had been his (n...
14: ...when the year was up Grace divorced Richard and kept the castle. It remained for centuries in the O' M...
19: ...flight and they barely escaped. Later Grace was captured but released some time later.
22: ...when two of her sons and her brother were taken captive by a local English ruler, Granuaile sailed to ... - Germany (46412 bytes)
66: ...d the [[Hanseatic League]]. In [[1530]], the attempt of the [[Protestant Reformation]] of Catholicism ...
73: ... power, rejected crown and constitution. This prompted violent rollbacks by the monarchs, and the demi...
75: ...lm I]] and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms. The king appointed [[Ott...
95: ...nd]], violating the Versailles Treaty, in an attempt to rebuild national self-esteem. Emboldened, Hitl...
134: ...23]], [[1949]], the Federal Republic of Germany kept a notably low profile in international relations.... - Peru (12264 bytes)
48: ...ruvian coast in [[1532]], and by the end of the [[1530]]s Peru became a [[Viceroy]]alty and a major sour... - 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]]) - History of California (38344 bytes)
19: About [[1530]], [[Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán]] (President of [[...
36: ...ew Spain]]. He sailed northward and landed on [[September 28]] at [[San Diego|San Diego Bay]], claimin...
38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [[Alta California|Alta (upper) California]] an...
48: ...stocked his vessels, then stayed for a time and kept friendly relations with the aboriginal natives. ...
50: ...h Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was discovered in [[Ma... - Thomas More (15893 bytes)
2: ...efly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s claim...
41: ...nry's marriage to Catherine. In [[1531]] he attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath de...
44: ...nd. Shortly thereafter More was charged with accepting [[bribe]]s, but the charges had to be dismisse...
46: ... Act of Succession|Act of Succession]]. More accepted Parliament's right to declare Anne the legitima...
57: ...]'' (whose title is borrowed from Erasmus's description of More's character). In [[1966]], Bolt's pla... - Francesco Guicciardini (1068 bytes)
3: ...Guicciardini presents a worldview that is more skeptical and more conservative than that of Machiavell...
16: * ''Ricordi'' (1512-1530) - 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... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ...ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737]]) by the [[Medici]] family.
23: ...ry: in [[1345]] Florence was the scene of an attempted strike by wool combers (''ciompi''), who in [[1...
27: ...insight was [[Niccolchiavelli]], whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong lead...
34: ...he authorities who knew the flood was coming, except a phone call to the jewellers on the Ponte Vecchi...
38: ...ccupation with money and with [[conspicuous consumption|the display of wealth and leisure]]. - 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...
27: ...e the outcome of reform, he was thankful he had kept out of it. Yet he was being ever more bitterly ac...
32: ...lear himself of suspicion, Erasmus published in [[1530]] a new edition of the orthodox treatise of [[Alg... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
39: *[[1989]] - In [[Egypt]], a 4,400-year-old [[mummy]] is found in the [[G...
75: *[[1927]] - [[George Plimpton]], writer (d. [[2003]])
105: *[[1584]] - [[Ivan IV of Russia]] (b. [[1530]])
112: *[[1965]] - King [[Farouk I of Egypt]] (b. [[1920]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
233: *[[Eratosthenes]] (Ptolemaic Egypt, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C.]]) - Sweden (27111 bytes)
3: ...ury. Since [[1816]], Sweden has been at peace, adopting a policy of armed neutrality.
53: ...|English]]: ''For Sweden; with the times'') is adopted by Carl XVI Gustaf as his personal motto in his...
193: ...stancing themselves from Church rituals such as baptism. With the 20th century a personal belief beca... - Malta (18511 bytes)
42: |From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[September 21]], [[1964]]
69: ...id to have been shipwrecked on the shores of the aptly named ''Saint Paul's Bay''. After a short spell...
71: In [[1530]] the islands were given by [[Spain]] to the [[Kn...
77: ...itain']], Maltese was granted independence on [[September 21]], [[1964]]. Under its [[1964]] [[constit...
92: ...by the Maltese Curia effectively derails any attempt for a national consultation on the legalisation... - Confucius (21352 bytes)
30: ...umous name since [[1530]]. Between [[1307]] and [[1530]] his<br>posthumous name was: "The Lord Propagato...
37: '''Confucius''' (traditionally [[September 8]]? [[551 BCE]]–[[479 BCE]]) was a fa...
56: ...udy the outside world, mostly through the old scriptures relating past political events (like the Anna...
76: Confucius's principles gained wide acceptance primarily because of their basis in common Ch...
79: ...theory of ethics is based on three important concepts: - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
213: *[[Jean Bodin]], (1530-1596){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
652: *[[Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki]] (1530-1607)
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}} - Akkadian language (3224 bytes)
2: ...ns and Babylonians. It used the [[cuneiform (script)|cuneiform]] writing system.
9: * 1950 – 1530 Old Babylonian/Old Assyrian
10: * 1530 – 1000 Middle Babylonian/Middle Assyrian
16: ...though not originally present in Akkadian, was adopted rapidly as compensation for the disappearance o... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ...n the site of the monastery of Saint [[John the Baptist]], took in Christian pilgrims traveling to vis...
9: ...ted by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it ...
15: ...[County of Tripoli]] and when [[Akko|Acre]] was captured in [[1291]] the order sought refuge in the [[...
17: ... in the [[15th century]], one by the Sultan of Egypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[148...
25: ...the Knights were re-established on [[Malta]] in [[1530]] by the order of [[Pope Clement VIII]] and Emper... - 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...
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