1486 - Events. Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies of poisoning. He is succeeded by Auitzotl. Matthias Corvinus organizes first hussars Sigismund, Archduke of Tyrol, issues Europe's first large silver coin, the guldengroschen. This coin later becomes the thaler. 1486 - Births. January 6 - Martin Agricola, German composer and music theorist (died 1556) August 23 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (died ...

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Earl of Mar, Earl of Mar - Earls of Mar first Creation circa 1115, Earl of Mar - Earls of Mar second Creation 1426, Earl of Mar - Earls of Mar and Garioch third Creation 1459, Earl of Mar - Earls of Mar and Garioch fourth Creation 1483, Earl of Mar - Earls of Mar and Garioch fifth Creation 1486, Earl of Mar - Earls of Mar sixth Creation 1562, Earl of Mar - Earls of Mar seventh Creation 1565 as deemed by the House of Lords in 1875

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Gaurabda - a year in the era beginning from the appearance of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu (corresponding to 1486 AD).

(See also: Gaurabda, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Arthur Tudor (20 September 1486 – 2 April 1502) was the eldest son of Henry VII of England. Henry named his eldest son Arthur after the hero of Arthurian legend, partly as a sign of his hopes for a rebirth of English greatness, and partly to emphasise the Tudor family's links to Wales. Arthur was born to Henry and his queen, Elizabeth of York, at Winchester on September 19 or 20, 1486, but was never a robust child. The hopes of the newly-established Tudor dynasty were nevertheless pinned on him. He was Duke of C ...

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Caitanya, IAST caitanya mahaprabhu) (Bangla চৈতন্য মহাপ্রভূ) (1486 - 1534), was an ascetic Hindu monk and social reformer in 16th century Bengal, India (present-day West Bengal and Bangladesh). A great proponent of loving devotion for God bhakti yoga, Chaitanya worshiped the Lord in the ...

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William Waynflete (1395 - 1486), English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester, was the son of Richard Pattene or Patyn, alias Barbour, of Wainfleet, Lincolnshire (Magd. Coll., Oxon. Reg, f. 84b), whose monumental effigy, formerly in the church of Wainfleet, now in Magdalen College Chapel at Oxford, seems to be in the dress of a merchant. His mother was Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton of t ...

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1414 - Year in topics. 1414 in art 1414 - Births. July 21 - Pope Sixtus IV (died 1484) August 18 - Jami, Persian poet (died 1492) November 9 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (died 1486) Francis I, Duke of Brittany (died 1450) 1414 - Deaths. August 6 - King Ladislas of Naples (born 1377) September 1 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of Engla ...

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1456 - Births. March 1 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (died 1516) June 11 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (died 1485) June 23 - Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III of Scotland (died 1486) Jan Laski, Polish nobleman (died 1531) Jan Lubranski, Polish bishop (died 1520) 1456 - Deaths. May 24 - Ambroise de Loré, French military leader (b. 1396) August 11 - John Hunyadi, Transylvanian st ...

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1481 - Events. May 3 - Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Beyazid II. May 21 - Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481-1513). December 26 - Battle of Westbroek - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou was reverted to the French crown under Louis XI of France. Change of Patriarch Maximus III (1476-1481) to Symeon I (1466, 1471-1474, 1481-1486).Including:

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 – November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar. Most famous for the events of 1486, when at the age of twenty-three, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man which has been called the "Manife ...

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Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild (1442 - December 21, 1504) , elector and archbishop of Mainz, son of George, count of Henneberg, entered the ecclesiastical profession, and after passing through its lower stages, was made archbishop of Mainz in 1484. He appears to have been a firm supporter of law and order, an enemy of clerical abuses and a careful administrator of his diocese. Immediately after his election as archbishop he began to take a leading part in the business of the Empire, and in 1486 ...

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Auítzotl (sometimes rendered as Ahuitzotl or Axayacatl) was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Chief Speaker, of the city of Tenochtitlán. He was responsible for the expansion of the Mexica domain, and consolidated the empire's power after a weak performance by his predecessor. He took power as Tlatoani in 1486, after his predecessor Tízoc was poisoned. Perhaps the greatest known military leader of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, Auítzotl began his reign by suppressing a Huastec rebellion, and then swiftly more than doubl ...

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (born of noble birth in Cologne September 14, 1486, died in Grenoble February 18, 1535) was a magician and occult writer, astrologer, and alchemist. He may also be considered as an early feminist. He was for some time in the service of Maximilian I, but devoted mainly to the study of the occult sciences, which exposed him to various persecutions through life. During his wandering life in Germany, France and Ital ...

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The Chaitanya Charitamrita is the magnum-opus of the Bengali saint/author Krishna Dasa Kaviraja (1496-? CE). The book, a hybrid Bengali and Sanskrit biography, documents the life and precepts of the Vaishnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486 – 1533), who is considered by his followers to be an incarnation of Radha and Krishna combined. Chaitanya is a pivotal figure of the Hindu sect Gaudiya Vaishnavism. As a religious text, the Chaitanya Charitamrita is the main theological resource for Gaudiya Vaishnava Theology and is divid ...

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The Gaudiya Vaishnava poet and saint Srila Rupa Goswami (1489-1564 CE) is considered to be one of the principal followers of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1533 CE). He is also one of the famous Six Goswamis of Vrindavana. Rupa Goswami - Srila Rupa Goswami's Geneology. His lineage can be traced back to Karnataka, South India where his Saraswata brahmana descendants held influential positions. Srila Rupa Gosvami's nephew, Jiva Goswami has explained in his Laghu Tosani that Rupa's descendants were of ...

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Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca di Paolo del Migliore, Gualfonda, Florence, 1487 - Florence, 1531) was a painter of the Italian Renaissance. Andrea del Sarto - Early Life and Training. This celebrated painter of the Florentine school was born in either 1486 or 1487 one of four children to Agnolo, a tailor (sarto). Since 1677 some have attributed the surname Vannucchi with little documentation. By 1494 Andrea apprenticed to a goldsmith, and then to a skillful woodcarver and in ...

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Andrea del Sarto - Madonna of the Harpies
Andrea del Sarto - Details of Personal Life Andrea del Sarto - Critical Assessment and Legacy Andrea del Sarto - Partial Anthology of Works

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The Chaitanya Bhagavata of Vrindavana Dasa Thakura (1507-1589 CE) was the first full-length hagiography written in Bengali. It documents the early life of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1533CE), the saint / reformer worshipped by Gaudiya Vaishnavas as the joint incarnation of Radha and Krishna. The book was commissioned by the guru of Vrindavana Dasa, Nityananda, who was himself an intimate of Chaitanya. Chaitanya Bhagavata - Naming of Chaitanya Bhagavata. Initially, the Chaitanya Bhagavata was named Chaitanya ...

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Boccaccio used ottava rima for a number of minor poems and, most significantly, for two of his major works, the Teseide (1340) and the Filostrato (1347). These two poems defined the form as the main one to be used for epic poetry in Italian for the next two centuries. For instance, ottava rima was used by Poliziano and by Boiardo in his 1486 masterpiece Orlando Innamorato . The following year, Pulci published his Morgante Maggiore in which the mock-heroic, half-serious, half-burlesque use of the form that is most ...

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The story of Chaitanya's life is at times biographic and at times mythic, often associating him with stories of Krishna. According to Chaitanya Charitamrita, Caitanya was born as Visvambhar Mishra in 1486 as the second son of Jagannath Mishra and Sachi Devi in the town of Navadvipa in Nadiya, West Bengal, India. In his youth, Chaitanya was an erudite scholar, whose learning and skills in argumentation were next to none. Though religious at heart, Chaitanya did not display an active ...

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya's life, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya's tradition, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Cultural legacy

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