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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
7: ...xplored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]...
11: ...e]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him fo...
13: ...s surname. The Latin roots of his name can be translated "Christ-bearer, Dove". Columbus' signature re...
27: ...ent a year on a ship bound towards [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visi...
35: ...a Islands]] and owned one of them ([[Porto Santo Island]]), but died when Felipa was a baby, leaving h... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
44: ...nds]] and [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]]
52: ...ain rich in silver – reached Spain around [[1524]]. Since then, the Spaniards named the river of S...
61: ...xpanding middle class as well as to groups previously excluded from power. The Argentine military forc...
67: ... seize the [[Falkland Islands|Falklands/Malvinas Islands]] all combined to discredit the Argentine mil...
73: ...s resignation on [[December 30]]. Yet another legislative assembly elected Peronist [[Eduardo Duhalde]... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...adeira and Porto Santo]] (including the [[Savage Islands]]).
7: ... progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
25: An [[Islam]]ic invasion took place in [[711]]. Many of the...
38: ...nd conquer [[Ceuta]] in North [[Africa]], a rich Islamic trade center. On [[August 21]], the city fell...
40: ...rly 15th century, Madeira Island and the Azorean islands were discovered. Henry the Navigator's intere... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
110: *[[Yoannis XIII of Alexandria]], ([[1483]]-[[1524]]), Coptic Pope
178: ...Young, Simon]], (fl. mid 19th century), Pitcairn Isl. politician
207: ...[Tohir Yuldashev|Yuldashev, Tohir]], leader of [[Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan]] [[terrorist]] group - List of painters (54090 bytes)
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]])
324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
7: ...opher Columbus]] lands on one of the [[Bahamas]] Islands, "discovering" the [[New World]] (for [[15th ...
18: *[[1524]]-[[Giovanni da Verrazano]], working for [[France... - Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
23: In [[1524]] [[Pope Clement VII]] sent him to [[Spain]] as '...
24: On the other side, quite outrageously, Alonso de Valdes (brother of Juan de Valdes and...
30: ...d in the classics as well. The book was soon translated into Spanish, German, French, and English, an... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
18: ...llegiate Church of the Holy Cross in [[Wroclaw|Breslau (Wrocław)]], [[Silesia]], which he held fo...
24: ...c Order]] and Kingdom of Poland ([[1519]]–[[1524]]) Copernicus successfully defended [[Olsztyn]] o...
44: ...ut 1000 years. The work of the [[14th century]] Muslim astronomer [[Ibn al-Shatir]] contains results s...
51: ...he precession of the [[equinox]]es correctly by a slow change in the position of the Earth's rotationa...
95: ...stulating that human rationality was the real legislator of observed phenomena. More recent philosophe... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
36: ... rendered the clerical establishments even more disliked in the cities.
61: ...[Peasants' War]] of the lower classes in Germany (1524), show that discontent was not confined to any on...
70: ...the fundamental theological questions quite seriously, their followers tended to split along socio-eco... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...placed on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteor...
6: ...ctually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[oceanogra...
10: ...e a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
12: ...g tsunamis, and occur where denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as ...
14: ...ying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Si... - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
16: ...'Instrumentum''. This edition was used by the translators of the [[King James Version]] of the Bible. ...
17: ...writings, were in Latin, but were immediately translated into other languages, with his encouragement.
23: ...his ''De Servo Arbitrio'' ([[1525]]), which viciously attacks the "Diatribe" and Erasmus himself, goin...
25: ...rm or were evils of a kind curable only by a long slow regeneration in the moral and spiritual life of...
46: ...classical and patristic world are among those translated, edited or annotated by Erasmus, including as... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ...dson discovered what is now known 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... - Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] |
10: place_of_death=Eisleben, Germany
14: ... and added several principles to the art of [[translation]]. Luther's [[hymn]]s sparked anew the devel...
19: ...' Lindemann, on [[November 10]], [[1483]] in [[Eisleben]], [[Germany]] and was baptized on the feast ...
49: ...n at Heidelberg, where he presented theses on the slavery of man to sin and on divine grace. In the co... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
37: ...ere decisively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were sub...
41: ... imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to the...
50: ...e Teutonic Order, moved into the thinly populated Slav territories east of the Oder ([[Bohemia]], [[Si...
69: ...Empire (more or less modern-day [[Austria]] and [[Slovenia]], and, from [[1526]] onwards, [[Bohemia]] ...
80: ...]]. Hiding in the [[Wartburg Castle]], Luther translated the Bible, establishing the basis of modern G... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
37: ...ere decisively defeated near [[Augsburg]] and the Slavs between the [[Elbe]] and the [[Oder]] were sub...
41: ... imperial stronghold (''Pfalz'') was built at [[Goslar]], as the Empire continued its expansion to the...
50: ...e Teutonic Order, moved into the thinly populated Slav territories east of the Oder ([[Bohemia]], [[Si...
69: ...Empire (more or less modern-day [[Austria]] and [[Slovenia]], and, from [[1526]] onwards, [[Bohemia]] ...
80: ...]]. Hiding in the [[Wartburg Castle]], Luther translated the Bible, establishing the basis of modern G... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...trate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third ...
14: ...in (OF-2)|captain]] of distinguished ancestry but slender means. Hernán's mother was Catalina Pizarro...
31: ...Cuba, receiving a large estate of land and Indian slaves for his efforts from the leader of the expedi...
36: ... a ''[[repartimiento]]'' (gift of land and Indian slaves), mines and cattle. This new position of powe...
47: ...rnt Maya during his captivity, and could thus translate for Cortés. In March 1519, Cortés formally c... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
89: ...573]] - [[Azai Hisamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1524]])
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