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1521 - Events. January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. January 28 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. March 6 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam. March 16 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. April 7 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. April 16 - 18 - Martin Luther is examined before Emperor Charles V and the German Diet of Worms. April 26 - Martin Luther leaves Worms and disap ...

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1469 - Events. July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. This event would lead to a unified Spain in 1516. Sigismund of Austria sells upper-Elsass (Alsace) to the Charles the Bold in exchange of aid in a war against the Swiss Uzun Hassan wins in Persia and defeats Abu Said Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl. Including:

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1565 - Events. The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States. September 4 - Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. ...

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1603 - Events. March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James I of England, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey June 29 - Original Globe Theatre burns July 17 or July 19 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for treason. July 25 - Coronation of James I of England. By some criteria this was the start of the modern Great Britain November 17 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes ...

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In Pre-Columbian times Key West was inhabited by the Calusa people. The first European to visit was Juan Ponce de León in 1521. As Florida became a Spanish colony, a fishing and salvage village with a small garrison was established here. The name "Key West" is derived from a "false friend" anglicization of the Spanish language name of the island, Cayo Hueso, meaning "Bone Island". In 1763 when Great Britain took control of Florida, the community of Spaniard ...

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Protestant Reformation - Roots and precursors: 14th Century and 15th Century. Anti-hierarchical movements: Catharism, Waldensianism, and others Avignon Papacy ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), Avignon, Great Schism John Huss, John Wycliffe, William Tyndale Northern Renaissance Unrest in the Western Church and Empire culminated in the Avignon Papacy (1308–1378), and the papal schism (1378–1416), excited wars between princes, uprisings among the peasants, and widespread conce ...

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Catherine Howard (1520/1525? - February 13, 1542) was the fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England 1540-1542, sometimes known as "the rose without a thorn." She was born between 1520 and 1525, maybe 1521, probably in London, the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and granddaughter of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk. She married Henry VIII on July 28, 1540, at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, having caught his eye even before his divorce from Anne of Cleves was arranged. Catherine Howard - The Rise and Fall of Catherine HowardIncluding:

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March 6 - 1252 to 1899. 1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235) 1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458) 1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador 1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580) 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1694) 1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician 1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690) 1796 - Guillaume ...

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