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  1. 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: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
    54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ...
  2. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    9: *[[Agasias]], Greek sculptor
    20: ...rmany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
    36: *[[Johannes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer
    41: *[[Agrippinus of Alexandria]], (pope 167-178), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
  3. Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
    1: ...s''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April 25]], [[1566]]) was a fixture at the courts of several [[Franc...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
    4: ...or [[palaeography]]. The study of permanent inscriptions engraved in metal or chiselled into stone and...
    14: ...s on sharp angles. Written Japanese uses both scripts along with Chinese characters, and basic calligr...
    28: | [[Seal script]]
    32: | [[Clerical script]] (Official script)
    36: | [[Regular Script]] (Block script)
  7. 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>
  8. 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...
    18: ...n. This occurred in the [[Christmas]] season of [[1566]], after a fair amount of drinking, while the jus...
    38: ...er tried, but was unable, to persuade Brahe to adopt the [[heliocentrism|heliocentric model]] of the [...
  9. Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
    3: ...Elder''' or '''Bruegel''' (c.[[1525]] &ndash; [[September 9]], [[1569]]) was a [[Flemish]] [[painter]]...
    5: ...ermanently 10 years later. He died there on [[9 September]], [[1569]].
    30: * ''Flight To Egypt'' 1563, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
    38: ** ''[[The Harvesters]] (Aug.-Sept.)'' 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    42: ...000.jpg|Massacre of the Innocents]]'' c. 1565, Hampton Court, U.K./Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vien...
  10. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
    114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
    141: ...&agrave;ro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
    184: *[[Francois d'Aguillon]] (Belgium, [[1566]] - [[1617]])
    211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]])
  11. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
    32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
    967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
    1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}}
    1421: *[[Michal Sedziw󪝝, (1566-1636)
  12. Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
    47: ... I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites established...
    53: ...st to [[Hungary]] in the northwest, and from [[Egypt]] in the south to the [[Caucasus]] in the north. ...
    59: ...Janissaries]] were disbanded, and a modern conscripted army was formed.
    61: ...defending itself from foreign occupation (e.g. Egypt occupied by the French in 1798, Cyprus occupied b...
    76: ...g the characteristic Ottoman culture. After the capture of Constantinopole (later dubbed Istanbul) in ...
  13. 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...
  14. Walter Baade (2275 bytes)
    17: | [[1566 Icarus]] || [[June 27]], [[1949]]
    30: ...pernova of the year [[1054]], and identified the optical counterparts of various [[radio astronomy|rad...
    32: ...d the [[Apollo asteroid|Apollo-class asteroid]] [[1566 Icarus]] (whose perihelion is closer than that of...

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