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1524 - Events. March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date). April 30 - Battle of the Sesia - Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy defeat the French army in Italy under William de Bonnivet. The French, now commanded by François de St. Pol, withdraw from Italy. August - September - Siege of Marseille by Imperial forces under the Duke of Bourbon. October 28 - A French army invading Italy under King Francis besieges Pavia. Giovanni da Verraz ...

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Cremona - Ancient city. Cremona was originally a settlement of the Cenomani, a Gaul tribe. The today's city was founded in 218 BC by the Romans as a military outpost (castrum), together with the twin city of Piacenza. It quickly grew into one of the largest towns in northern Italy, as it was on the main road connecting Genoa to Aquileia, the Via Posthumia. In 40 BC the heirs of the veterans who had sided with Marcus Iunius Brutus and the Senate forfeited their lands to Augustus' men. The city's prosperity ...

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Mikołaj Kopernik (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543), more commonly known by the Latin form Nicolaus Copernicus, was a Polish[1] astrologer, astronomer, mathematician, administrator and economist. He is mainly remembered for developing a scientifically-useful heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system. Copernicus worked in Royal Prussia as a church canon, governor, administrator, economist, jurist, physician, astrologer and, in con ...

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• Nicolaus Copernicus - Earlier theories
• Nicolaus Copernicus - The Ptolemaic system
• Nicolaus Copernicus - Copernican theory
• Nicolaus Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• Nicolaus Copernicus - Copernicus and Copernicanism
• Nicolaus Copernicus - Quotes
• Nicolaus Copernicus - University
• Nicolaus Copernicus - Grave

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. See also: 16th century in literature 16th century - Events. 1501: Safavid dynasty rules Iran until 1736. 1503: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later. 1509: The Battle of Diu marks the beginning of Portuguese dominance of the Spice trade. 1514: The Battle of Orsha halts Muscovy's expansion into ...

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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 - Frescoes at SS Anunziata in Florence
• Andrea del Sarto - Visit to France
• Andrea del Sarto - Later Works in Florence
• 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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April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). There are 258 days remaining. April 17 - Events. 1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. 1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices. 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings. 1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano ...

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Anne of Brittany (January 25, 1477 – January 9, 1514) was also known as Anna of Brittany and Anne de Bretagne. She was born in Nantes, France on January 25, 1477 and was the daughter of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and Margaret of Foix. Anne of Brittany - Marriages. The ducal house of Dreux, rulers of Brittany since their ancestress Duchess Constance (1203), was going extinct: Francis seemed to be the last male. The duchy had been inherited under Salic succession (though no written l ...

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In naval parlance, watches are a timekeeping convention. The term in general use can mean any period of duty or responsibility, such as a hurricane watch. A watch is a small portable clock that displays the time and sometimes the day, date, month and year. In modern times they are usually worn on the wrist with a watch-strap (made of e.g. leather (often synthetic), metal, or nylon), although before the 20th century most were pocket watches, which had covers and were carried separately, oft ...

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• Watch - Pocket clock
• Watch - Wrist watch
• Watch - Complicated watch
• Watch - Chronographs and chronometers
• Watch - Electromechanical watches
• Watch - Quartz analog watch
• Watch - Digital watches
• Watch - Fashionable watches
• Watch - Advanced watches

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September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining. It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099). September 11 - Events. 1226 - The Catholic practice of Perpetual adoration begins. 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English. 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors. ...

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Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (January 1, 1484 – October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. Independent from Luther, who was doctor biblicus, Zwingli arrived at similar conclusions, by studying the Scriptures from the point of view of a humanist scholar. Zwingli was born in Wildhaus, St. Gall, Switzerland to a prominent family of the middle classes. He was the seventh of eight sons. His father Ulrich was the chief magistrate in ...

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• Huldrych Zwingli - Theology: sacraments and covenants Zwingli versus Luther
• Huldrych Zwingli - Music in the Church
• Huldrych Zwingli - Zwingli’s life
• Huldrych Zwingli - Youth
• Huldrych Zwingli - Priesthood
• Huldrych Zwingli - Alienation from the Church
• Huldrych Zwingli - Marriage
• Huldrych Zwingli - The Reformation in Zürich
• Huldrych Zwingli - The political phase
• Huldrych Zwingli - Reaction
• Huldrych Zwingli - Dictator of Zürich
• Huldrych Zwingli - Civil war and Zwingli's death on the battlefield
• Huldrych Zwingli - Zwingli's successor
• Huldrych Zwingli - Other notables in Swiss Reformation
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William IV. (* 13 November 1493 in Munich; † 7 March 1550), (German: Wilhelm IV., Herzog von Bayern), was Duke of Bavaria (1508-1550), until 1545 together with his younger brother Louis X, Duke of Bavaria. His parents were Albert IV and Kunigunde of Austria, a daughter of Emperor Frederick III. William first showed sympathy for the reformation but then decided to stop its expansion in Bavaria. In 1522 William IV issued the first Bavarian religion mandate. It is a censorship regulation, which places the spreading ...

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Even uncompleted, the Villa Madama, in Rome, Italy, with its loggia and segmental columned garden court and its casino with an open center, was one of the most famous and imitated villas and terraced gardens of the High Renaissance. Villa Madama - Construction. Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, cousin of the reigning pontiff Leo X, ordered the villa built on a prominent site against the lowermost slopes of Monte Mario, on the edge of Rome. The plan was designed by Raphael, who then left the execution (started in ...

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Westchester County is a suburban county with about 940,000 residents located in the U.S. state of New York. It was named after Chester, in England. The county seat is White Plains. Westchester County New York - History. The first Europeans to explore Westchester were Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524 and Henry Hudson in 1609. The first white settlers were sponsored by the Dutch West India Company in the 1620s and 1630s. English settlers arrived from New England in the 1640s. Westchester County was an ori ...

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In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ "anointed one", Standard Hebrew Mašíaḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Māšîªḥ Arabic المسيح;) initially meant any person who was anointed by God. In English today, it is used in two major contexts: the anticipated saviour of the Jews, and one who is anticipated as, regarded as, ...

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• Messiah - Josephus's report of civil unrest in the first century
• Messiah - Menahem ben Judah
• Messiah - Bar Kokhba
• Messiah - Moses of Crete
• Messiah - In 7th century Persia
• Messiah - The Syrian Serene
• Messiah - Messiahs during the crusades
• Messiah - David Alroy
• Messiah - In Yemen
• Messiah - Abraham Abulafia
• Messiah - Nissim ben Abraham
• Messiah - Moses Botarel of Cisneros
• Messiah - Asher Lemmlein
• Messiah - David Reuveni and Solomon Molko
• Messiah - Isaac Luria
• Messiah - Sabbatai Zevi
• Messiah - Sabbethaian pseudo-messiahs
• Messiah - Mordecai Mokia
• Messiah - Jacob Frank
• Messiah - Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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• Messiah - The Messiah in science fiction and fantasy
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April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. April 30 - Events. 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule. 711 - Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). 1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, m ...

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Kerala 52 (including Cochin, Ernakulam, Parur, Aluva) USA   Bene Israel   Cochin Jews   Other Jewish groups Cochin Jews, also called Malabar Jews are the ancient Jews and their descendants of the South Indian port city of Cochin. They traditionally spoke Judæo-Malayalam, a form of the Malayalam tongue, native to the state of Kerala, in India. Several rounds of immigration of the Jewish diaspora into Kerala led to a diversity amongst the C ...

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Augsburg is a city in south-central Germany. It is the capital of the Swabia administrative region of Bavaria, and is located at the confluence of the Wertach and Lech rivers. The population was 276,193 in 2004. Augsburg - Districts. There are 17 districts Stadteile in Augsburg: Innenstadt Antonsviertel Bärenkeller Bergheim (includes Neubergheim, Wellenburg, Radegundis and Fuchssiedlung) Firnhaberau Göggingen mit Schafweidsiedlung H ...

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Charles V (Spanish: Carlos I, Dutch: Karel V, German: Karl V.) (24 February 1500–21 September 1558) is considered (the first) King of Spain though in fact his son was the first to use that title. He was king from 1516 to 1556 (in principle, he was from 1516 king of Aragon and from 1516 guardian of his insane mother, queen of Castile who died 1555, and the co-king of Castile 1516-55, full king 1555-56), and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556. In Spain, he ruled officially as Charles IIncluding:

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• Charles V Holy Roman Emperor - Early life
• Charles V Holy Roman Emperor - Wars against France and the Reformation
• Charles V Holy Roman Emperor - Wars against the Ottoman Empire
• Charles V Holy Roman Emperor - The Council of Trent and other reforms
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Zamorin is the anglicised version of Samoothirippadu or Samoothiri, a title of the rulers of the erstwhile Hindu state of Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), located in the present day state of Kerala, India, between the 14th and 18th century AD. Manavikraman Raja, the Samoothiri of Kozhikode is famous for being the ruler that received the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama on May 18, 1498. Zamorin - Origins. The Samoothiri were previously known as the Eradis (rulers of Erana ...

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The Château d'If is located on the small island of If, the smallest island in the Frioul Archipelago, situated in the Mediterranean Sea, about a mile offshore in the Bay of Marseille, in southeastern France. It is a square, three-story building 28 m long on each side, flanked by three towers with large gun embrasures. The remainder of the island, which only measures 30,000 square metres, is heavily fortified; high ramparts with gun platforms surmount the island's cliffs. Château d'If - Fortress. It ...

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• Château d'If - Miscellaneous
• Château d'If - Historical prisoners include
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