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1454 - Events. February 4 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master. March 6 - Casimir IV of Poland renounces allegiance to the Teutonic Knights March 27 - Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York becomes Protector for the insane King Henry VI of England April 18 Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the duchy of Milan, republic of Florence and kingdom of Naples S ...

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. 15th century - Events. 1401: Timur sacks Baghdad. 1402: The Ottoman and Timurid Empires fought at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I. The Ottoman Empire descends into civil war until 1413. 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the start of the Spanish Empire. 1402: Sultanate of Malacca founded by Par ...

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. It is led by the Archbishop of Milan who serves as metropolitan to the dioceses of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Crema, Cremona, Lodi, Mantova, Pavia and Vigevano. The Church in Milan was first established in the 1st century as a small diocese. It was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese in the 4th century. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan - Bishops and Archbishops. St. Barnabas (ca.50-5 ...

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1512 - Events. April 11 - Battle of Ravenna. French forces under Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours defeat the Spanish under Raymond of Cardona, but Gaston is killed in the pursuit. October 19 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology [Doctor in Biblia]. October 21 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg November 1 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time. ...

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The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu (Bka' rgyud), the largest of the lineages that make up the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 1st Karmapa, Düsum Khyenpa (Dus gsum Mkhyen pa) (1110-1193), was a disciple of the Tibetan master Gampopa. A gifted child who studied dharma (Buddhist teachings) with his father from an early age and who sought out great teachers in his twenties and thirties, he is said to have attained enlightenment at the age of fifty while practicing dream yoga. He was hen ...

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Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) was a Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil. Poliziano - Early Life. Known in literary annals as Angelo Poliziano or Politianus from his birthplace, was born at Montepulciano in Tuscany. His father, Benedetto, a jurist of good family and distinguished ability, was murdered by political antagonists f ...

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1405 - Events. May 29 - Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, meets Archbishop Richard Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them June 8 - Archbishop Richard Scrope of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders Early feminist Christine de Pizan writes The Book of the City of Ladies Erection of Bath Abbey Publication of Bel ...

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1504 - Events. January 1 - French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba. January 31 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowldege of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies. Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes his sculpture of David - August 8 it is erected in Florence. Moldavia, Stephan III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland. Baber besieges and captures Kabul ...

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1483 - Events. The São Tomé settlement is founded. April 9 - Edward V becomes King of England. April 30 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, making Neptune the furthest planet from the Sun until July 23, 1503. April - King Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York reside in the Tower of London. Later this year rumors of their murders start circulating. By December the rumors have reached France. This is the b ...

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1493 - Events. January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World. March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. July 28 - Great fire in Moscow. November 19 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). December 23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.

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1494 - Events. January 25 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. May 31 - Natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches, defeat invading Spanish forces at the First Battle of Acentejo. June 7 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. October 22 - Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan. Start of the Italian Wars. The University of Aberdeen is founded by the bishop of Aberdeen. Amda Seyon ...

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1420s 1430s 1440s - 1450s - 1460s 1470s 1480s 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 Events and Trends Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. 1456: Siege of Belgrade. The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The victory stopped the Ottoman Turkish advance towards Catholic Europe for 70 years. Category: 1450s ...

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Heir Presumptive: Susan Helen of Mar, Mistress of Mar (born 1963) Lady Susan's Heir Presumptive: Isabel Alice Wyllie (born 1991) ...

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History of the Jews in Poland 966-1572 - Early history. The first Jews arrived in the territory of modern Poland in the 10th century. Travelling along the trade routes leading eastwards to Kiev and Bukhara, the Jewish merchants also crossed the areas of Silesia. One of them, a diplomat and merchant from the Moorish town of Tortosa in Al-Andalus, known under his Arabic name Ibrahim ibn Jakub was the first chronicler to mention the Polish state under the rule of prince Mieszko I. The first actual mention of Jews in ...

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In 1449 James II emerged into adulthood, yet in many ways his 'active kingship' was little different from his minority. The Douglases used his emergence into adulthood as a way to throw the Livingstons out of the shared government, as the young king took revenge for the brief arrest of his mother (in turn as a means to remove her from political influence) that had taken place in 1439. Douglas and Crichton continued to dominate political pow ...

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Knights Hospitaller - Foundation and early history. In 600, Abbot Probus was commissioned by Pope Gregory the Great to build a hospital in Jerusalem to treat and care for Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. In 800, Charlemagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, enlarged Probus' hostel and added a library to it. About 200 years later, in 1005, Caliph El Hakim destroyed the hostel and three thousand other buildings. He made the Christians wear wooden crosses, half a meter long by half a meter wide, around their ne ...

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List of historians - A. Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author Robert G. Albion, maritime history Gar Alperovitz, American historian, Hiroshima Ida Altman, American historian, colonial Spain & Latin America Stephen Ambrose, (1936–2002), American; WW2, U.S. political Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history Joyce Appleby, American; US early national Herbert Aptheker, (1915–2003), American; African Ame ...

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Rabbi Bruna was born in Brno (Bruna), Moravia. He studied under the leading Ashkenazi rabbis of his time - Jacob Weil and Israel Isserlin, who ordained him and spoke very highly of him. "He was a brilliant student, who devoted himself, body and soul, to the study of the Talmud." He was then elected Rabbi of his native town. After the expulsion of the Jews from that city (1454) he settled at Rati ...

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1492 was an important year for Isabella, seeing the conquest of Granada, her successful patronage of Christopher Columbus, and her expulsion of the Jews and Muslims. Isabella of Castile - Granada. The Kingdom of Granada had been held by the Moors since their invasion of Spain in the 8th century. Protected by natural barriers and fortified towns, it had withstood the long process of the reconquista. However, in contrast to the determined leadership by Isabella and Ferdinand, Granada's leadership was divided and never presented a united front. ...

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The order was formed at the end of the 12th century in Palestine to give medical aid to pilgrims at the holy places. They received Papal orders for crusades to take and hold Jerusalem for Latin Christianity. They were based at Acre (Akko). When the mission of the order in Palestine was nearing its end, the Teutonic Knights moved their headquarter to Venice and offered their services to Christian rulers confronted with hostile non-Christian neighbors. In 1211, Andrew II of Hungary accepted their services and granted them the district of Burze ...

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