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Zara Yaqob (Amharic "Seed of Jacob") (1399–1468) was negus negust (1434–1468) of Ethiopia (throne name Kuestantinos I or Constantine I), and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. Born at Tilq in the province of Fatagar (now part of the Oromia Region, near the Awash River), Zara Yaqob was the youngest son of Dawit I and his youngest queen, Igzi Kebra. The British expert on Ethiopia, Edward Ullendorff, stated that Zara Yaqob "was unquestionably the greatest ruler Ethiopia had seen since Ezana, during the hey ...

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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Cognac is a commune in the French département of Charente, of which it is a sous-préfecture. The inhabitants of the town are known as Cognaçais. Cognac - Geography. Cognac is situated on the river Charente between the towns of Angoulême and Saintes. The majority of the town has been built ...

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Wat Chedi Luang (Thai วัดเจดย์หลวง, lit. temple of the big stupa) is a Buddhist temple in the historic center of Chiang Mai, Thailand. The current temple grounds originally was made up of three temples - Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Ho Tham and Wat Sukmin. Wat Chedi Luang - History. The construction of the temple started in the 14th century, when King Saen Muang Ma planned to bury the ashes of his father there. After 10 years of building time it was left unfinished, later to b ...

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The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) is the name generally given to the intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. Both houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent from King Edward III. The name Wars of the Roses was not used at the time, but has its origins in the badges chosen by the two royal house ...

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Carlo Crivelli (1435 in Venice, Italy – 1495 in Naples, Italy) was a Venetian Renaissance or Quattrocento painter. The only dates that can with certainty be given are 1468 and 1493; these are respectively the earliest and the latest years signed on his pictures--the former on an altar-piece in the church of San Silvestro at Massa near Fermo, and the latter on a picture in the Oggioni collection in Milan. Though born in Venice, Crivelli seems to have worked chiefly in Ancona, and especially in and near Ascoli; there are ...

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1399 - Events. September 30 - Accession of Henry IV of England October 13 - Coronation of Henry IV of England November 1 - Accession of John VI, Duke of Brittany 1399 - Births. William Canynge, English merchant (approximate date; died 1474) Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1468) 1399 - Deaths. January 4 - Nicolas Eymeric, Spanish theologian and inquisitor February 3 - Jo ...

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(1st millennium – 2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – other millennia) 2nd millennium - Events. European crusades in Middle East Mongol Empires in Asia The Black Death The Renaissance in Europe The Protestant Reformation The agricultural and industrial revolutions The rise of nationalism and the nation state European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization European colonization and decolonization in Afri ...

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Bona Sforza (born February 2, 1494 - November 19, 1557) a member of the Milanese Sforza dynasty, was a queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania, and the second wife of Sigismund I of Poland since 1518. When her mother died in 1524, she succeeded to the titles Duchess of Bari and Princess of Rossano. She also became the holder of the Brienne claim to the title of King of Jerusalem. Bona was born in Vigevano, the daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan and niece of Bianca Maria Sforza, who in 1493 had married Maximili ...

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June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. June 16 - Events. 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, N ...

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Kraków (pronounced: ['krakuf]; variant English spelling Cracow; in full Royal Capital City of Kraków, Polish: Królewskie Stołeczne Miasto Kraków, see also Names of European cities in different languages) is one of the oldest and largest cities of Poland, with a 2004 population of 760,000 (1.2 million, counting adjacent communities). This historic city is situated on the Vistula (Wisła) River at the foot of Wawel Hill in the southerly region of Little Poland (Małopolska). It is the capital of ...

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1428 - Events. October 12 - English forces under Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury besiege Orléans. Jean de Dunois, the Bastard of Orléans, commands the defenders. October 24 - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury is mortally wounded in an unsuccessful assault on Orléans. He is succeeded in command by the Earl of Suffolk Emperor Go-Hanazono ascends to the throne of Japan Itzcóatl becomes ruler of the Aztecs. He eventually begins the construction of Tenochtitlan. ...

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1417 - Events. Antipope Benedict XIII is deposed, and Pope Martin V is elected. Friedrich I Hohenzollern (b. 1372; d. 20 Sep 1440) burgrave of Nuremberg begins to rule as margrave and elector of Brandenburg 1417 - Births. February 23 - Pope Paul II (d. 1471) November 23 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (died 1487) Jöns Bengtsson, regent of Sweden Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (died 14 ...

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1402 - Events. June 26 - Battle of Casalecchio - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Duke of Milan, crushes the forces of Bologna, but he dies later that year. September 14 - Battle of Homildon Hill. Northern English nobles led by Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy, defeat a Scottish raiding army under the Earl of Douglas Battle of Angora - Tamerlane defeats the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, who is captured. Mehmed I succeeds Bayezid as Sultan. 1402 - Births. No ...

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August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 137 days remaining. August 16 - Events. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops. 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina. 1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the ...

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1430s 1440s 1450s - 1460s - 1470s 1480s 1490s 1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469 1460s - Events and Trends. Sonni Ali, first Songhai king, conquers many of his African neighbors. Category: 1460s ...

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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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1549 - Events. July - Kett's Rebellion Francis Xavier arrives in Japan. Salvador established, first capital of Brazil Petrus Canisius starts the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria 1549 - Births. July 30 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1609) November 5 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (died 1623) Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (died 1625) Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanes ...

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1532 - Events. May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably. September 1 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England. November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa. Atahualpa wins Inca civil war over Huáscar The Prince is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavel ...

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1490 - Events. Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan. Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent. Aldus Manutius moves to Venice. John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford. Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun. Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia. Catholic missionaries arrive in the African ...

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The title of earl of Pembroke has been held successively by several English families, the jurisdiction and dignity of a palatine earldom being originally attached to it. The first creation dates from 1138, when the earidom of Pembroke was conferred by King Stephen on Gilbert de Clare (d. II48), son of Gilbert Fitz-Richard, who possessed the lordship of Strigul (Estrighoiel, in Domesday Book), the modern Chepstow. After the battle of Lincoln (1141), in which he took part, the earl joined the party of the empress Matilda, and he marri ...

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Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Pembroke - History in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke first Creation circa 1138, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke second Creation 1189, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke third Creation 1247, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke fourth Creation 1339, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke fifth Creation 1414, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke sixth Creation 1446, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke seventh Creation 1452, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke eighth Creation 1468, Earl of Pembroke - Earls of Pembroke ninth Creation 1479, Earl of Pembroke - Marchioness of Pembroke 1533, Earl of Pembroke - Earl of Pembroke tenth Creation 1551, Earl of Pembroke - Other use, Earl of Pembroke - Sources and References

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