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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...[[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of he...
14: ...ng the reign of [[Robert II of Scotland]], the Scottish Crown had been confirmed to be inherited by ma...
17: ...ith a lass!" The Stewart family had gained the Scottish throne through Marjory (daughter of [[Robert I...
31: ...e. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treaty at the end o...
33: ...n Mary. This consisted of a series of raids on Scottish territory and other such actions. It lasted un... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
18: ...h's household before [[Anne Boleyn]]'s death. [[Matthew Parker]], her mother's favourite priest, took ...
27: ...cism|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be R...
33: ...e. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accept...
35: ... Burghley|Sir William Cecil]] for advice on the matter. The [[Act of Uniformity 1559]] required the us...
41: ...s all of the estates and incomes Elizabeth inheiretted from her father [[Henry VIII]] were only hers u... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
12: national_motto = ''Je Maintiendrai''<br>([[French language|Fren...
25: population_estimate = 16,297,196[http://www.cbs.nl/nl/cijfers/bevolkingsteller/popcloc...
40: ...[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 23]], [[1568]]<br/>[[January 30]], [[1648]] |
62: ...so includes most of present-day [[Belgium]]. In [[1568]] the [[Eighty Years' War]] started and in [[1579...
70: ...ies]] (now [[Indonesia]]) and [[Suriname]] (the latter was traded with the British for New Amsterdam, ... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
60: ...e a Polynesian people who are estimated to have settled the islands around 2,000 years ago. During pre...
62: ...ficulties of landing ships on the atoll, and no settlements were established by them. Peruvian slave r...
64: ...elected as an operations base for Allied forces battling the Japanese in the Pacific. Thousands of mar...
91: ...land, Niulakita, was uninhabited until it was resettled by people from Niutao in 1949. Thus, the name ...
105: ... from the sale of stamps and coins and worker remittances. About 1,000 Tuvaluans work in [[Nauru]] in ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - Pope Sabinianus (965 bytes)
7: ...pitome pontificum Romanorum'' (Venice, [[1557]]) attributes to him the introduction of the custom of r... - Pieter Brueghel the Elder (6133 bytes)
5: ...soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling in [[Brussels]] permanently 10 years later. H...
11: ...vidence of the severity of winters during the [[Little ice age]].
17: ...sc01965.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Peasant Wedding'' [[1568]]]]
19: * ''[[:image:bigfishlittlefish.JPG|Large Fish Eat Small Fish]]'' 1556, Alb...
20: * ''Ass at School'' 1556, Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen, Berlin - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
6: ...ised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was...
10: ...ve daughters, but only one survived childhood. In 1568 his father died and Montaigne inherited the Ch&ac...
33: ...sdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to pre...
35: ...his time, his belief that humans are not able to attain true certainty ([[skepticism]]), and even allu... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
12: ...]. On his second such voyage he fought a costly battle against Spanish forces, which claimed many Engl...
18: ...blished Drakes Passage but the route around the bottom of South America, south of Tierra del Fuego whe...
20: ... ''Golden Hind'' in honour of Sir [[Christopher Hatton]] (after his [[heraldry|coat of arms]]).
22: ...thward along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports like [[Valpara�]] as it wen...
24: ... inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was disc... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
17: ...list party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
22: ...alia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Battle of the Philippines (1942)|fall of the Philippin...
29: *[[1974]] – A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness [[Anne, Princes...
30: *[[1976]] – [[Patty Hearst]] is found guilty of the armed robbery of... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: *[[1568]] - [[Peace of Longjumeau]] ends the [[Second War...
13: ...t [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|Dunedin]], [[New Z...
16: ...Benjamin Harrison]] opens [[Oklahoma]] to white settlement starting on [[April 22]].
21: *[[1931]] - [[Bhagat Singh]] and [[Batukeshwar Dutt]] embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle ...
62: *[[1924]] - [[Bettie Nesmith Graham]], inventor (d. [[1980]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
10: *[[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Kernstown]] - [[Confederate States of Americ...
11: ...ee]] becomes the first [[U.S. state]] to be readmitted to the [[United States|Union]] following the [[...
16: *[[1923]] - The [[Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern [[Turkey]], is signe...
19: ...[1931]] - A fire at a home for aged people in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] kills 48 people.
21: ...rops [[rape]] charges against the so-called "[[Scottsboro Boys]]." - National anthem (4891 bytes)
3: ...rom [[The Netherlands]], it was written between [[1568]] and [[1572]] during the [[Eighty Years' War]]. ...
9: ...lative simplicity, most national anthems are of little interest musically. Some of the notable excepti...
11: ...was written by [[Joseph Haydn]] to the words "[[Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]," it became notorious ...
13: ...ce) and the [[Vatican City]], whose anthem was written by [[Charles Gounod]]; Similarly, few anthems... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
9: ...e area. The order came to distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers weari...
23: ...s conducted by the Knights. Fort Saint Elmo, Valletta, Malta, May 8, 2005.]]
27: ...amed in memory of its valiant grand master La Valette who had sustained this siege.
29: ...e, however, had little political impact, for the Ottomans quickly rebuilt their fleet.
31: ... the victory at Lepanto the Knights continued to attack pirates, and their base became a centre for [[...
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