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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...
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]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...m for themselves, and the word was always a descriptor of a ''type'' of religious innovation, rather t...
8: ...yes of the Puritans, this had made doctrine unacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[M...
10: ...belief that all existing churches had become corrupted by practice, by contact with pagan civilization...
14: ...ure and liturgy that the monarchy required. Attempts by the [[bishop]]s of the Church of England to e...
26: ...f Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Divine right of kings]] to Charl... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
59: *[[Uriel Acosta|Acosta, Uriel]], (1585-1640), philosopher - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: '''Anne of Austria''' ([[September 22]], [[1601]] - [[January 20]], [[1666]]) w...
6: ...638]] and [[Philip I, Duke of Orl顮s]] born in [[1640]]. The marriage was not a happy one, filled with ...
8: ...of age, her regency legally ended. However, she kept much power and influence over her son. In [[1659]... - Painting (4567 bytes)
99: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
100: ...eo Modigliani]], ([[1884]]-[[1920]]), Italian sculptor and painter
106: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
107: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor - 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...
47: ...y that was not in his favour. In [[December 1]] [[1640]], the Duke of Bragan硬 of the Portuguese Royal ...
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]... - Spain (36498 bytes)
48: ...]]: [[peseta|Spanish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the [[GMT]] t...
83: ...ut was quickly returned to the Spanish Crown, except [[Rosellon]].
95: ...nish Morocco]] and [[Equatorial Guinea]] was attempted. A period of dictatorial rule ([[1923]]–[...
97: ...s politically and economically isolated and was kept out of the [[United Nations]] until [[1955]], whe...
101: ... [[Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Bustelo]], after an attempted [[coup d'鴡t]] in [[1981]], [[Felipe Gonzᬥz|... - Biography (6028 bytes)
8: ...complishments. The [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[holy scripture]] is an [[anthology]] of some of the earliest ...
22: In [[1640]], [[Izaak Walton]] published ''Life of Donne'', ...
26: ...de it easier for authors to assemble vast manuscripts, biographies of a thousand pages or more became ... - Plymouth Colony (2283 bytes)
7: ...was surrendered by Bradford to [[The Freemen]] in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - Macau (16856 bytes)
57: ...ered as a port and was a subject of repeated attempts by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] to conquer it in th...
59: ...l of Portugal from the [[Spanish Habsburgs]] in [[1640]], Macau was granted the official title of ''Cida... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregoria...
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
15: ...discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
28: *[[1892]] - [[Ellis Island]] opens to begin accepting immigrants to the [[United States]].
50: ...Sudan]] achieves independence from the [[Egypt|Egyptian Republic]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kin... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
18: *[[1921]] - The [[Second Republic of Poland]] adopts the [[March Constitution]].
101: *[[1640]] - [[Philip Massinger]], English dramatist - 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.]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
10: ...almesbury]] school and then to a private school kept by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate f...
22: ...37, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosoph...
24: When in November 1640 the [[Long Parliament]] succeeded to the Short, H...
26: ...cept for a short treatise on optics (''Tractatus opticus'') included in the collection of scientific t...
34: ...e war. It was based on an unpublished treatise of 1640. The State, it now seemed to Hobbes, might be reg... - Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
22: ...d on [[August 7]] of the same year. She died in [[1640]].
30: ...e was interred in a graveyard mainly used for unbaptized infants in [[Adolf Fredrikskyrkan]] in Stockh...
35: ...s, he employs a method called [[methodological skepticism]]: he doubts any idea that can be doubted.
46: ...as he did, and the [[rationalist]] answer to [[scepticism]] which other rationalists have elaborated o...
52: ...cartes also made contributions in the field of [[optics]], for instance, he showed by geometrical cons... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1154: *[[Mulla Sadra]], (1571-1640){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
2: ...:South - Djoum Chimps.jpg|250px|Common Chimp]]| caption = [[Common Chimpanzee]]<br>in [[Cameroon]]'s [...
23: ..., but have been known to reach the age of 60 in captivity.
32: ... Prince of [[House of Orange-Nassau|Orange]] in [[1640]] and was followed by a few of its brethren over ...
34: ...numerous studies of the animals in the wild and captivity. The observers of chimpanzees at the time we...
48: * Pickrell, John. (September 24, 2002). [http://news.nationalgeographic.c... - 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 ... - 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...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t...
100: From 1640, [[Brandenburg-Prussia]] had started to rise unde...
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