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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
7: ...st familiar portrait (see right) was painted by a Russian artist in 1839 for the city of Saint-Malo.
15: ==Second Voyage 1535-1536==
19: ... when Cartier decided to spend the winter of 1535-1536 in Canada but the decision must have been made by...
23: ... the Hurons and then among the French. By mid-February, Cartier states that "out of 110 that we were,...
25: ...his remedy probably saved the expedition from destruction and by the end of the winter, 85 Frenchmen w... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: ...eden; and in the following year Margaret, who had ruled both kingdoms in his name, was chosen regent o...
6: ...t from her any king she chose to appoint. On [[February 24]] [[1389]], Albrecht, who had returned from...
12: ... prudence she avoided every appearance of an open rupture.
14: ...ms, but during her lifetime Margaret was the real ruler of Scandinavia.
16: ... desuetude, and the great queen, an ideal despot, ruled through her court officials acting as superior... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: '''Mary I''' ([[18 February]] [[1516]] – [[17 November]] [[1558]]) w...
13: ...[[Greenwich, London|Greenwich]] on Monday [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on t...
21: ...[Europe]], furthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although she wa...
23: ...ueen Anne lost royal favour and was beheaded in [[1536]]. The Princess Elizabeth was also degraded to a...
44: ...ed at London's gates. After the rebellions were crushed, both the Duke of Suffolk and the Lady Jane G... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...tter known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]]...
15: ...yal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died before James V, Mary would not n...
17: ...bert I of Scotland|Robert I, the Bruce]]). James truly believed that Mary marked the end of the Stewar...
26: ... and the palms of her hands. When the chill air struck her, she began to cry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] b...
33: ...ambers of Stirling Castle. The French, remaining true to the [[Auld Alliance]], came to the aid of the... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
38: | Slovak [[koruna]]
65: ...lity of Nitra]], arose in the 8th century and its ruler [[Pribina]] had the first Christian church in ...
67: ... this new state. For almost two centuries, it was ruled autonomously as the Principality of Nitra and ...
69: ...as characterized rather by burgeoning towns, construction of numerous stone castles, and development o...
71: ...licted a great deal of destruction, especially in rural areas. As the Turks retreated from Hungary in ... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
11: ...ght resembled beards. Between Campos' sighting in 1536 and 1550, [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|...
13: ...dependence in [[1966]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Barbados alway...
36: ...ny season it actually does not. The island gets brushed or hit every 3.09 years and the average numbe...
48: ...ate 1990's the island has seen an increasing construction boom, the island began to see new hotels, re...
92: * [[Mount Gay|Mount Gay Rum Distilleries]] - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
69: ...a time when Scotland was on the brink of economic ruin and was deeply unpopular with the broader Scott...
111: ...the UK debated giving Ireland [[home rule]]. Home rule was given to [[Northern Ireland]] in 1920: it w...
113: ...ently suspended. Unlike federalism, however, home rule parliaments have no constitutional status or ri...
135: The [[Act of Union 1536]] incorporated Wales and England into [[England a...
155: ... may all be taken as precedent - indeed the last true war in which the British military fought alone w... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
44: ...urishing sedentary culture in the [[1200s]], constructing small towns in the valley of the [[Rio Grand...
46: ...d wandering across south New Mexico in [[1528]]-[[1536]]. [[Fray Marcos de Niza]] enthusiastically ident...
54: ...of New Spain, the duke of Alburquerque. They constructed the Church of San Felipe de Ner�[[1706]]). ...
60: ... had previously reached Santa Fe, but the Spanish rulers forbade them to trade. Trader [[William Beckn...
62: ...ivisions southwest of [[Dodge City, Kansas]]. The rugged Mountain Division passed over [[Raton Pass]] ... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
20: *[[Minoru Yamasaki|Yamasaki, Minoru]] (1912-1986), [[United States|US]] [[architect]]
37: *[[Yury Yarov|Yarov, Yury]], (born 1942), Russian politician, former deputy prime minister and...
40: *[[Lev Yashin|Yashin, Lev]], ([[1929]]-[[1990]]), Russian football goalkeeper
56: ...igory Yavlinsky|Yavlinsky, Grigory]] (born 1952), Russian economist and politician
68: ... Yegorov|Yegorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
3: ...ccupations and services rendered were in [[Royal Prussia]] as church [[canon]], governor and administr...
8: ...e in [[1460]] and became a respected citizen of Toruń as well, once the war with Teutonic Knights...
10: ...w. After four years and a brief stay in [[Torun|Toruń]], he moved to [[Italy]], where he studied ...
20: Copernicus worked for years with Prussian diet on monetary reform and published some s...
26: ...s work was already in a definitive form, and some rumours about his theory had reached the scientists ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ... copper engraving of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be published in nor...
14: [[Image:Mercator World Map.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his fath...
15: ...ublished in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]. - Erasmus (18332 bytes)
2: ...er 27]], probably [[1466]] – [[July 12]], [[1536]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[humanism|humanis...
8: ...mly in any one of these. His time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with t...
14: ...tangling obligations; yet he was in a singularly true sense the center of the literary movement of his...
16: ...ar term ''Testamentum'' was used instead of ''Instrumentum''. This edition was used by the translators...
23: ...ith was the [[free will|freedom of the will]], a crucial point. In his ''De libero arbitrio diatribe ... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...ragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led the largest expedition of t...
6: ...actician, but was known for extreme brutality and ruthlessness when dealing with natives. In a conflic...
11: ...and became the first European to talk to the Inca ruler [[Atahualpa]] when he preceded Pizarro to Caja...
13: ...disunited with Pizarro. He returned to Spain in [[1536]], taking with him approximately 100,000 golden [...
15: De Soto, having seen the legendary resources in Peru and read a report written by [[Cabeza de Vaca]], ... - Cabeza de Vaca (4807 bytes)
25: ... his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536''], hosted by the Portal to Texas History - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
11: ...ogical standpoint, the discovery of different instruments and objects made of pottery, in several arch...
55: ...egion. After his death in 861, his son Kocel, who ruled the principality of Balaton until 876, continu...
57: ...f Mojm� stripping Mojm�I of his crown, and entrusting the royalty to his son, Rastislav.
61: ...vs, a simple people, have no-one to teach us the truth..." The Emperor agreed to his request and sent ...
64: ...Christians destroyed each document that contained Runic instead of the Cyrillic writing, usually along... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
120: *[[Averroes]] (or ''Ibn Rushd''), (1126-1198){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
158: *[[Bruno Bauer]], (1809-1882){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
231: *[[Rudjer Boscovich]], (1711-1787){{fn|C}}
257: *[[Constantin Brunner]], (1862-1937)
258: *[[Emil Brunner]], (1889-1966){{fn|R}} - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
2: {{History of Peru}}
26: ...s height, Tahuantinsuyu included what are now [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Ecuador]], and also extended in...
30: ... This allowed the Inca to indoctrinate the former ruler's children into the Inca nobility, and, with l...
32: ... the Inca's only serious rival for the coast of Peru. T?Inca's empire stretched north into modern day ...
40: ''Main article: [[Spanish conquest of Peru]]'' - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem'' or ''Knights of Malta'' or ''Knights of Rh...
5: ...aschid of [[Egypt]] to rebuild the hospice in [[Jerusalem]]. The hospice, which was built on the site ...
7: ...up just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing a...
9: ...r Hospitallers, at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and ...
15: ...g islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]]. - Computer display (4276 bytes)
11: ...rom 640 by 480 [[pixel]]s (640״80) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048ױ536) with 32-bit colour and a varie... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...to the east, [[Bolivia]] to the northeast and [[Peru]] to the north.<!--
39: ...m [[Spain]]<br>[[September 18]], [[1810]]<br>[[February 12]], [[1818]] |
56: ... Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]-[[1536|36]] called themselves the "men of Chilli."
64: ..., and Chile became part of the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]].
66: ...[[1553]] resulted in Valdivia's death and the destruction of many of the colony's principal settlement...
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