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  1. Germany (46412 bytes)
    19: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[German language|German]]<s...
    35: |'''Formation<br>Unification/reunification<br><br><br>'''
    51: ...e|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as minority langua...
    62: ...sand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when...
    66: ...n strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[1648]]), that...
  2. Switzerland (22270 bytes)
    3: ... official name, avoids choosing one of the four official languages. The abbreviation is similarly used...
    13: official_languages = [[German language|German]], [[Fr...
    46: ...lects this state, listing the eight "Old Cantons" first, with the city states preceding the founding c...
    48: ...lity acquired during the earlier wars, suffered a first setback in [[1515]] with the Swiss defeat in t...
    50: ...] in some cantons led to inter-cantonal wars in [[1529]] and [[1531]] (''Kappeler Kriege''). The conflic...
  3. Pope Sabinianus (965 bytes)
    5: ...pparently was not entirely satisfactory in that office. He returned to [[Rome]] in [[597]].
    7: ...vinio]] ([[1529]]-[[1568]]) in his ''Epitome pontificum Romanorum'' (Venice, [[1557]]) attributes to h...
  4. Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
    15: ...d [[Germany]]. His great family portrait in the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence had an important influence...
    24: ...e Bold]] (c. [[1456]]-[[1458]]), Royal Museums of Fine Arts, [[Brussels]]
    28: * ''Woman Crying'', Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
    33: * ''Descent from the Cross'', Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
    35: ...nts Roger van der Weyden in some of the principal figures at least, though Memling may have completed ...
  5. Baldassare Castiglione (7242 bytes)
    1: ...[December 6]], [[1478]] &ndash; [[February 2]], [[1529]]), one of the most important [[renaissance]] aut...
    10: ...n his duties would have included representative offices for the court; for instance, he accompanied hi...
    13: Urbino was at that time the most refined and elegant among [[Italy|Italian]] courts, a ...
    15: ...eclogue ''Tirsi'' in which allusively, beyond the figures of three shepherds, he originally depicts th...
    21: ...[[1521]] Pope Leo X conceded him the ''tonsura'' (first sacerdotal ceremony) and here begins Castiglio...
  6. Thomas More (15893 bytes)
    2: ...ces, including that of [[Lord Chancellor]] from [[1529]] to [[1532]]. More coined the word "[[utopia]]"...
    7: ...he judged himself incapable of [[celibacy]], More finally decided to marry in [[1505]], but for the re...
    9: More had four children by his first wife, Jane Colt, who died in [[1511]]. He rem...
    12: ...vernment, welcoming foreign diplomats, drafting official documents, and serving as a liaison between t...
    23: ...ng [[Richard III of England|Richard III]]'', an unfinished piece of [[historiography]] which heavily i...
  7. Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
    20: ...e]] [[clergy]], sensitizing the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Rena...
    22: ...o trade, industry, and burgeoning urban growth in fields as diverse as banking (the [[Fugger]] banking...
    24: ...ulation to reach its former levels in the late <b>fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,</b> the combinati...
    28: ...impatience among reformers. [[Erasmus]] and later figures like [[Martin Luther|Luther]] and [[Zwingli]...
    30: ...sm caught on in the universities, requiring a redefinition of God, who was no longer a rational govern...
  8. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    42: *[[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
    95: *[[Mino da Fiesole]] (c.1429 - 1484)
    96: *[[Steve Fiorilla]]
    97: *[[Victor Fisher]] (1938-)
    115: *[[Giambologna]] (1529 - 1608)
  9. Erasmus (18332 bytes)
    6: ...[[monk|monastic]] vows at about the age of twenty-five, but he never seems to have worked as a priest,...
    8: ...[[England]], and [[Basel]]; yet he never belonged firmly in any one of these. His time in England was ...
    10: ..., preferring the uncertain, but, as it proved, sufficient, rewards of independent literary activity. F...
    14: ...ement of his time. He corresponded with more than five hundred men of the highest importance in the wo...
    16: ... [[1516]] and was the basis of most of the scientific study of the Bible during the Reformation period...
  10. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
    267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
    348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
    387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}}
  11. Martin Luther (43050 bytes)
    5: ...ption= Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) |
    23: ...k near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified, he cried out, "Help,[[Saint Anne]]! I'll becom...
    25: ==Luther's struggle to find peace with God==
    31: ... most important of these was the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
    37: Luther's first public challenge of papal power came in [[1517...
  12. History of Germany (53864 bytes)
    3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
    5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
    7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
    17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
    23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B...
  13. Fluorine (8588 bytes)
    6: {{Elementbox_econfig | 1s<sup>2</sup> 2s<sup>2</sup> 2p<sup>5</sup> }...
    37: ...e to be found in elemental form and has such an affinity for most elements, including [[silicon]], tha...
    57: ...propellant]] due to its exceptionally high [[specific impulse]]. Experiments failed since fluorine was...
    60: ...uorspar ([[calcium fluoride]]) was described in [[1529]] by [[Georg Agricola|Georgius Agricola]] for its...
    62: ... attacks the remaining materials of the compound. Finally in [[1886]] fluorine was isolated by [[Henri...
  14. Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
    3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
    5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
    7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
    17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
    23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B...
  15. Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
    2: ...e generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Ame...
    6: ...greatly expanded concern for human rights, as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to exp...
    14: ...fe and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, first cousin of Pizarro's father. Through his father...
    18: ...ng period of training and experience as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would ...
    20: ...ixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provinc...
  16. September 23 (7397 bytes)
    7: *[[1459]] - The [[Battle of Blore Heath]]. The first major battle of the English [[Wars of the Rose...
    8: *[[1529]] - [[Siege of Vienna]] begins as [[Suleiman II]]...
    9: *[[1642]] - First commencement exercises occur at [[Harvard Univ...
    10: ...ard]]'', commanded by [[John Paul Jones]], wins a fight against the British ships of war ''[[Serapis]]...
    13: ...Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.

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