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1505 - Events. March 5 - Papal dispensation issued for the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte. June 27 - Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command King Alexander_of_Poland signed "Nihil_novi" act - Poland became Nobles' Democracy Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfd ...

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1008-1013 Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah issues severe restrictions against Jews in the Land of Israel. All Jews are forced to wear a "golden calf" (made of wood) around their necks. On Oct. 18 1009 he destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but the French "historian" Raoul Glaber blames the Jews. As a result, Jews were expelled from Limoges and other French towns. 1012 One of the first known persecutions of Jews in Germany: Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor expels Jews from Mainz. 1032 Abul Kamal Tumin conquers Fez, Morocco and decimates the Jewish community, killing 6,000 Jews. 1050 Council of ...

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History of anti-Semitism, History of anti-Semitism - Ancient animosity towards Jews, History of anti-Semitism - The 4th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 5th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 6th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 7th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 8th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 9th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 10th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 11th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 12th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 13th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 14th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 15th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 16th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 17th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 18th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 19th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 20th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 21st century, History of anti-Semitism - Books

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807 Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders all Jews in the Calipate to wear a yellow belt, with Christians to wear a blue one. 820 After Charlemagne's death in 814, his tolerant policies are terminated. Archbishop of Lyon St. Agobard declares in his essays that Jews are accursed and born to be slaves. He forcibly converts Jewish children, giving them or their parents no choice, for the first time in France. In 826 he issues a series of pamphlets to convince King Louis the Pious to attack "Jewish insolence". 898-929 French king Charles the Simple confiscates Jew ...

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History of anti-Semitism, History of anti-Semitism - Ancient animosity towards Jews, History of anti-Semitism - The 4th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 5th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 6th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 7th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 8th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 9th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 10th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 11th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 12th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 13th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 14th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 15th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 16th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 17th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 18th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 19th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 20th century, History of anti-Semitism - The 21st century, History of anti-Semitism - Books

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Martin Luther, more than the reformers that preceded him, shaped the Protestant Reformation. Thanks to the printing press, his pamphlets were well-read throughout Germany, influencing many subsequent Protestant Reformers and thinkers and giving rise to diversifying Protestant traditions in Europe and elsewhere. Protestant countries, no longer subject to the papacy, exercised their expanded freedom of thought, facilitating Protestant Europe's rapid intellectual advancement in the 17th and 18th centuries, giving rise to the Age of Reason. In r ...

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Martin Luther, Martin Luther - Luther's early life, Martin Luther - Luther's struggle to find peace with God, Martin Luther - Luther's theology of grace, Martin Luther - The indulgence controversy, Martin Luther - Response of the Papacy, Martin Luther - The breach widens, Martin Luther - Luther's thought develops, Martin Luther - The treatises of 1520, Martin Luther - The excommunication of Luther, Martin Luther - Diet of Worms, Martin Luther - Exile at the Wartburg Castle, Martin Luther - Return to Wittenberg and the Invocavit Sermons, Martin Luther - Martin Luther's marriage and family, Martin Luther - The Peasants' War, Martin Luther - Luther's German Bible, Martin Luther - Transformations in liturgy and church government, Martin Luther - Eucharistic Views and Controversies, Martin Luther - The Small and Large Catechisms, Martin Luther - The Diet of Ausburg and the question of civil resistance, Martin Luther - Luther's other writings, Martin Luther - Luther's last journey and death, Martin Luther - His legacy, Martin Luther - Martin Luther and the Jews, Martin Luther - Footnotes, Martin Luther - Bibliography, Martin Luther - Filmography

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Newspaper - Afghanistan. Printed in Afghanistan and other countries by Afghan nationals. List of newspapers in and out of print: Kabul Weekly Annis Issla Kabul Times Saraj-ul-Akhbar Omaid Khorasan Newspaper - Argentina. In Argentina, the broadsheet format is almost non-existent. The only remaining national newspaper published in that format is La ...

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Newspaper, Newspaper - Overview, Newspaper - History, Newspaper - Format, Newspaper - Circulation and readership, Newspaper - Advertising, Newspaper - Newspaper journalism, Newspaper - The future of newspapers, Newspaper - Newspapers in different countries, Newspaper - Afghanistan, Newspaper - Argentina, Newspaper - Belgium, Newspaper - Brazil, Newspaper - Chile, Newspaper - Europe, Newspaper - Germany, Newspaper - Finland, Newspaper - France, Newspaper - Hong Kong, Newspaper - India, Newspaper - Isle of Man, Newspaper - Mexico, Newspaper - Netherlands, Newspaper - Norway, Newspaper - Pakistan, Newspaper - Philippines, Newspaper - Poland, Newspaper - Portugal, Newspaper - Sweden, Newspaper - United Kingdom, Newspaper - United States

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A recent study of the genetics of the people of Indian Punjab[1] (where about 40% or more of the population are Jats) suggest that the Jats are similar to other populations of the Indus Valley in terms of Y-SNP groupings. Also Jats seem to share many common haplotypes with German, Slavic, Baltic, Iranian and Central Asians [2]. Unusually, Jat groups share only two haplotypes, one of which is also shared with Turks (Turkey), and have few matches with neighbouring Pakistani populations. This haplotype shared between the two Jat groups may be p ...

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Jat, Jat - Jatt origins, Jat - History, Jat - Genetics, Jat - List of Jatt Gotras clans, Jat - Famous Jat people, Jat - Books on Jat History, Jat - Genetics References

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France, which had lost its empire to the British by the end of the eighteenth century, had little geographical or commercial basis for expansion in Southeast Asia. After the 1850s French imperialism was initially impelled by a nationalistic need to rival Britain and was supported intellectually by the concept of the superiority of French culture and France's special mission civilisatrice—the civilizing of the native through assimilation to French culture. The immediate pretext for French expansionism in Indochina was the protection ...

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Imperialism in Asia, Imperialism in Asia - Asian empires before European contact, Imperialism in Asia - Early European penetration of Asia, Imperialism in Asia - Medieval European exploration of Asia, Imperialism in Asia - The search for new East-West trade routes, Imperialism in Asia - Oceanic voyages to Asia, Imperialism in Asia - Portuguese and Spanish trade and colonization in Asia, Imperialism in Asia - Portuguese monopoly over trade in the Indian Ocean, Imperialism in Asia - The decline of Portugal's Asian empire since the 17th century, Imperialism in Asia - Dutch trade and colonization in Asia, Imperialism in Asia - The rise of Dutch control over Asian trade in the 17th century, Imperialism in Asia - Decline of the Dutch in Asia and the rise of Britain, Imperialism in Asia - The British in India, Imperialism in Asia - Portuguese French and British competition in India 1600-1763, Imperialism in Asia - The collapse of Mughal India, Imperialism in Asia - From Company to Crown, Imperialism in Asia - The rise of Indian nationalism, Imperialism in Asia - France in Indochina, Imperialism in Asia - Russia and The Great Game, Imperialism in Asia - Imperialism in China, Imperialism in Asia - Imperialist penetration of China, Imperialism in Asia - Chinese territorial expansion, Imperialism in Asia - U.S. expansion in the Pacific, Imperialism in Asia - World War I: Changes in Imperialism, Imperialism in Asia - Japan, Imperialism in Asia - Postwar era, Imperialism in Asia - Decolonization and the rise of nationalism in Asia, Imperialism in Asia - List of European colonial acquisitions in Asia, Imperialism in Asia - References and further reading

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