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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York was in mediæval times the main town of Northern England, and Yorkshire was England's largest shire. Between the fall of Jorvik under Eirik Bloodaxe, last King of Jorvik and the first created Duke of York, there were a few Earls of York. The title was first created in the Peerage of England for Edmund of Langley, the fourth surviving son of King Edward III, and an important character in Shakespeare's Richard II. His son Edward was killed at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. The title passed to his nephew Richard, the ...

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Duke of York - Dukes of York first creation 1384. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1402) Edward, 2nd Duke of York (c. 1373-1415) Richard, 3rd Duke of York (1411-1460) (did not inherit the title due to the treason of his father, Richard, Earl of Cambridge; restored 1425) Edward, 4th Duke of York (1442-1483) (became king Edward IV in 1461) Duke of York - Dukes of York second Creation 1474. Ri ...

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Blood libels were the false accusations that Jews used human blood, especially the blood of Christian children, in religious rituals. In many cases, anti-Semitic blood libels served as the basis for a blood libel cult, in which the alleged victim of human sacrifice was worshipped as a Christian martyr. The first recorded instance was in the writings of Apion, who claimed that the Jews sacrificed Greek victims in the Temple, but there were no other incidents recorded from the ancient Greeks until the 12th century, when blood lib ...

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Blood libel against Jews - Alexandria first century CE Blood libel against Jews - England 1144 Blood libel against Jews - Belgium c. 1250 Blood libel against Jews - England 1255 Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1267 Blood libel against Jews - Alsace 1270 Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1286 Blood libel against Jews - Switzerland early 1400s Blood libel against Jews - Tyrol 1462 Blood libel against Jews - Trentino/Italian Tyrol 1475 Blood libel against Jews - Spain 1491 Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1494 Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1529 Blood libel against Jews - Syria 1840 Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1882 Blood libel against Jews - Bohemia 1899 Blood libel against Jews - Russia 1911 Blood libel against Jews - Kielce 1946
Blood libel against Jews - Modern Blood libels
Blood libel against Jews - In Arab and Muslim nations Blood libel against Jews - In Russia
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In general, the "procedure" for the alleged sacrifice was something like this: a child, normally a boy who had not yet reached puberty, was kidnapped or sometimes bought and taken to a hidden place (the house of a prominent member of the Jewish community, a synagogue, a cellar, etc.) where he would be kept hidden until the time of his death. Preparations for the sacrifice included the gathering of attendees from n ...

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Blood libel against Jews, Blood libel against Jews - Descriptions of alleged ritual murder, Blood libel against Jews - Actual Jewish practices regarding blood and sacrifice, Blood libel against Jews - Famous instances, Blood libel against Jews - Alexandria first century CE, Blood libel against Jews - England 1144, Blood libel against Jews - Belgium c. 1250, Blood libel against Jews - England 1255, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1267, Blood libel against Jews - Alsace 1270, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1286, Blood libel against Jews - Switzerland early 1400s, Blood libel against Jews - Tyrol 1462, Blood libel against Jews - Trentino/Italian Tyrol 1475, Blood libel against Jews - Spain 1491, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1494, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1529, Blood libel against Jews - Syria 1840, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1882, Blood libel against Jews - Bohemia 1899, Blood libel against Jews - Russia 1911, Blood libel against Jews - Kielce 1946, Blood libel against Jews - Modern Blood libels, Blood libel against Jews - In Arab and Muslim nations, Blood libel against Jews - In Russia, Blood libel against Jews - Views of the Catholic Church

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The descriptions of torture and human sacrifice in the anti-Semitic blood libels run contrary to many of the actual teachings of Judaism. Most obviously, the Ten Commandments in the Jewish Torah forbid murder. In addition, the use of blood (human or otherwise) in cooking is prohibited by Kashrut, or Kosher laws. Blood and other discharges from the human body are ritually unclean (Lev 15). Blood from slaughtered animals may not be consumed, and must be drained out of the animal and buried (Lev 17:12-13). According to the book of Leviti ...

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David Beaton (c. 1494 - May 29, 1546) was a Scottish cardinal and Archbishop of St Andrews. He was a younger son of John Beaton of Balfour in the county of Fife, and is said to have been born in 1494. He was educated at the universities of St Andrews and Glasgow, and in his sixteenth year was sent to Paris, where he studied civil and canon law. He began his political career at the French court. He became Commendator of Abroath in 1524, bishop of Mirepoix in Languedoc in December 1537 on the recommendation of King Francis I, and ...

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Ambrosius Holbein (1494 - 1519) was a German painter. He is best known as the son of Hans Holbein the Elder and brother of Hans Holbein the Younger. Ambrosius Holbein - External link. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/holbein_ambrosius.html ...

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1463 - Events. January 5 - Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris 1463 - Births. January 17 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (died 1525) February 24 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (died 1494) October 20 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (died 1512) Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian patron of the arts (died 1503) 1463 - Deaths. June 4 - F ...

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January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years). January 25 - Events. 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Senate. 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England. 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1554 - Foundation of São Paulo city, Brazil. 1755 - Moscow Uni ...

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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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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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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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Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics of that time. The Aldine Press is famous in the history of typography, among other things, for the introduction of italics. The press was continued after Aldus death in 1515 by his wife and her father until his son Paolo (1512-1574) took over. His grand ...

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There were a great many blood libel accusations and trials of Jews until the modern day. Relatively few of them are discussed here. Blood libel against Jews - Alexandria first century CE. The first recorded blood libel against Jews was by the classical Greek author Apion, who claimed that Jews sacrificed Greek victims in their temple. Blood libel against Jews - England 1144. March 20 (Passover), the first blood libel in Europe against Jews. Jews of Norwich were accused o ...

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Blood libel against Jews, Blood libel against Jews - Descriptions of alleged ritual murder, Blood libel against Jews - Actual Jewish practices regarding blood and sacrifice, Blood libel against Jews - Famous instances, Blood libel against Jews - Alexandria first century CE, Blood libel against Jews - England 1144, Blood libel against Jews - Belgium c. 1250, Blood libel against Jews - England 1255, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1267, Blood libel against Jews - Alsace 1270, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1286, Blood libel against Jews - Switzerland early 1400s, Blood libel against Jews - Tyrol 1462, Blood libel against Jews - Trentino/Italian Tyrol 1475, Blood libel against Jews - Spain 1491, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1494, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1529, Blood libel against Jews - Syria 1840, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1882, Blood libel against Jews - Bohemia 1899, Blood libel against Jews - Russia 1911, Blood libel against Jews - Kielce 1946, Blood libel against Jews - Modern Blood libels, Blood libel against Jews - In Arab and Muslim nations, Blood libel against Jews - In Russia, Blood libel against Jews - Views of the Catholic Church

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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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Blood libel against Jews - In Arab and Muslim nations. Blood libel stories have appeared a number of times in the state-sponsored media of a number of Arab and Muslim nations, their television shows and websites. The books promoting the myth of Jewish blood libel are not uncommon. The Matzah Of Zion was written by the Syrian Defense Minister, Mustafa Tlass in 1983. The book concentrates on two issues: the alleged murder of Father Toma in Damascus, Syria in 1840, and the Protocols of the Elders ...

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Blood libel against Jews, Blood libel against Jews - Descriptions of alleged ritual murder, Blood libel against Jews - Actual Jewish practices regarding blood and sacrifice, Blood libel against Jews - Famous instances, Blood libel against Jews - Alexandria first century CE, Blood libel against Jews - England 1144, Blood libel against Jews - Belgium c. 1250, Blood libel against Jews - England 1255, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1267, Blood libel against Jews - Alsace 1270, Blood libel against Jews - Germany 1286, Blood libel against Jews - Switzerland early 1400s, Blood libel against Jews - Tyrol 1462, Blood libel against Jews - Trentino/Italian Tyrol 1475, Blood libel against Jews - Spain 1491, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1494, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1529, Blood libel against Jews - Syria 1840, Blood libel against Jews - Hungary 1882, Blood libel against Jews - Bohemia 1899, Blood libel against Jews - Russia 1911, Blood libel against Jews - Kielce 1946, Blood libel against Jews - Modern Blood libels, Blood libel against Jews - In Arab and Muslim nations, Blood libel against Jews - In Russia, Blood libel against Jews - Views of the Catholic Church

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Cantaloupe was named after the commune Cantalupo in Sabina, in the Sabine Hills near Tivoli, Italy, a summer residence of the Pope. It was originally cultivated about the year 1700 from seeds brought from Armenia, part of the homeland of melons. The North American muskmelon (or cantaloupe) is a variety of muskmelon that Christopher Columbus is believed to have brought to with him on his second voyage to the New World in 1494. The most widely enjoyed variety of true cantaloupe is the Charentais, cultivated almost exclusively in France. ...

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As far back as 1494 it is recorded that James IV sailed from the shore at Gourock to quell the rebellious Highland clans. Two hundred years later William and Mary granted a Charter in favour of Stewart of Castlemilk which raised Gourock to a Burgh of Barony. In 1784 the lands of Gourock were purchased by Duncan Darroch, a former merchant in Jamaica. He built Gourock House in what they eventually gifted to the town as Darroch Park, later renamed by ...

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