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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: The city wasn't founded until March 1st, 1565 by Portuguese knight Estᣩo de Sᬠwho called it...
19: ...tuguese found gold and diamonds in the neighbor captaincy of [[Minas Gerais]], Rio de Janeiro became m...
123: [[pt:Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro)]] - 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...
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]]
137: *[[Cornelis de Houtman]], (1565—1599), brother to Frederick, established Dutch ... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: *[[Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
17: ...eign over a united Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in F...
22: ...ots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of the Queen an...
26: ...ry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped...
33: ...VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and kidnap the infant queen, but...
35: On [[September 10]] [[1547]], known as "Black Saturday", th... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) wa...
16: ...lizabeth was the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne f...
27: ...|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be Roman...
33: ...tthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, sin...
39: ...eth remained independent in her diplomacy. She adopted a principle of "England for the English". Her o... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
7: The city consciously attempts to preserve and display a regional architectural...
13: ...rticularly attractive around the second week of September when the [[aspen]]s in the Sangre de Cristo ...
43: ...ed States]], behind [[St. Augustine, Florida]] ([[1565]]). Santa Fe was the capital of [[Santa Fe de Nu...
45: Except for the years 1680-1692, when the native [[Pueblo...
48: ... Fe NM USA.jpg|thumb|left|Modern naturalistic sculpture typical of Santa Fe]] - 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
23: *[[Riza Abbasi]] ([[1565]]-[[1635]])
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - List of popes (77758 bytes)
36: ...tionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
143: | <small>[[21 July]] [[230]] to [[28 September]] [[235]]</small>
179: ...artyr, through extreme hardship; feast day [[16 September]]</small>
279: | <small>[[17 May]] [[352]] to [[24 September]] [[366]]</small>
321: ...28 December|28]]/[[29 December]] [[418]] to [[4 September]] [[422]]</small> - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
8: Tycho Brahe was born '''Tyge Brahe''', adopting the Latinised form Tycho at around age fifteen...
10: ...not lead to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless u...
12: ...s de Sphaera, [[Apianus]]' Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiomontanus]]' De triangul...
22: ...r father, uncle Jorgen Brahe, had already died in 1565 of pneumonia after rescuing [[Frederick II of Den...
38: ...er tried, but was unable, to persuade Brahe to adopt the [[heliocentrism|heliocentric model]] of the [... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
1: ...el's ''The Painter and The Connoisseur'' drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self portrait]]
3: ...Elder''' or '''Bruegel''' (c.[[1525]] – [[September 9]], [[1569]]) was a [[Flemish]] [[painter]]...
5: ...ermanently 10 years later. He died there on [[9 September]], [[1569]].
11: ... religious [[allegory]]. His winter landscapes of 1565 are corroborative evidence of the severity of win...
30: * ''Flight To Egypt'' 1563, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
7: ...ia]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name Giordano on becoming a [[Domin...
9: ...te uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from abou...
29: ...s rather than some form of magic. When Bruno attempted to leave Venice, Mocenigo denounced him to the ...
43: ...view of a [[celestial sphere]], immutable, incorruptible, and superior to the terrestrial region. Brun...
45: ...] [[Thomas Digges]], author of ''[[A Perfit Description of the Caelestial Orbes]]'' (''sic''). [[Galil... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ... as the object of study. He was a [[Skepticism|skeptic]] and a [[Humanism|humanist]].
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived chi...
18: ...land and Italy, partly in search for a cure. He kept a detailed journal recording various episodes and...
33: ...n for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to prepare...
35: ...umans are not able to attain true certainty ([[skepticism]]), and even alludes to [[cultural relativit... - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as Indi...
38: ...t, and jungle. All of these environments are susceptible to unpredictable periods of flood, drought, a...
58: ''[[Chandragupta Maurya]]'', a famed Hindu monarch, founded the [...
64: Between the [[Maurya]] and [[Gupta]] empires, northern India was ruled by smaller k...
68: ...he [[Shunga period]] is known for its art and sculpture. - 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.]]) - 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: ...of Malta (1565)|siege]] by the Ottoman Turks in [[1565]], who, at that time, were considered to be the g...
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... - 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...
27: ... [[1565]] invaded, starting the [[Siege_of_Malta_(1565)|Great Siege of Malta]]. At first the battle look... - Ancient India (31279 bytes)
8: ...]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period referred to as Indi...
38: ...t, and jungle. All of these environments are susceptible to unpredictable periods of flood, drought, a...
58: ''[[Chandragupta Maurya]]'', a famed Hindu monarch, founded the [...
64: Between the [[Maurya]] and [[Gupta]] empires, northern India was ruled by smaller k...
68: ...he [[Shunga period]] is known for its art and sculpture. - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
9: ...wiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of lif...
11: ...s of the [[New World]] next brought to hand descriptions and specimens of many novel forms of animal l...
19: ...Ray's conception of species, but he made the concept a practical reality by insisting that every speci...
21: ...another, so that no true names were fixed and accepted. Linnaeus' system made it easy to identify unam...
51: ... at least two centuries. It is now generally accepted that classification should reflect the Darwinia... - December 9 (7837 bytes)
8: ...[1835]] - The Army of the [[Republic of Texas]] captures [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]]
100: *[[1565]] - [[Pope Pius IV]]
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