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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
69: *[[Hernán Cortés]], (1485-1547), conquered the [[Aztec]] empire in [[Mexico]]; s...
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]] - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
11: During the reign of her husband (1547–1559), Catherine lived a quiet and passive ...
21: ... Fontainebleau]] in 1564 were famous for their sumptuousness. In architecture, especially, she was wel... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ...the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [...
13: ...ay [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on the following Wednesday with [[Thomas Wo...
19: ...male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [[153...
26: ... religion and royal position. The Lady Mary attempted to reconcile with her father by submitting to h...
28: There were several attempts to marry her off to European princes, but none o... - 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", the Scots suffered ... - 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...
22: [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] died in [[1547]] and was succeeded by Edward VI. Catherine Parr ...
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... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
285: *[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]] ([[1796]]-[[1875]]) - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches]], and [[Anabaptist]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]]...
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schi...
15: ...rmers -- [[Thomas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [[Anabaptists]], [[Menno Simons]]
20: ...ng the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Renaissance]] church.
32: ...mony and ritual. Going back to ancient texts, scriptures, from this viewpoint the greatest culmination... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: ...le de Oaxaca''' ([[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conquistador]] who conquered [[Mexic...
12: ... with a letter saying that he was no longer the captain of the expedition, but Cortés' brother-in-law...
15:
22: ...uture (such as Quetzalcoatl's return). (This concept of Mexica cosmology is convincingly argued agains...
24: ...ing|scuttled]] (not burned as legend has it), except for one small ship with which to communicate with... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
642: *[[Rudolph Goclenius]], (1547-1628){{fn|C}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1014: *[[Justus Lipsius]], (1547-1606){{fn|R}} - 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...
84: ...In the War of the [[Schmalkaldic League]] in 1546/1547, the Emperor Charles V defeated the Protestant ru...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t... - Germany in the Middle Ages (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...
84: ...In the War of the [[Schmalkaldic League]] in 1546/1547, the Emperor Charles V defeated the Protestant ru...
93: ...re to increase their power and the Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of t... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...{{IPA-es|erˈnan korˈtes}}; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] ''[[conquistador]]'' who...
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...
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