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1536: Encyclopedia - 1536
1536 - Events.
February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
February 25 - Jacob Hutter burned at the stake f...
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1503: Encyclopedia - 1503
1503 - Events.
January 20 - Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive right to trade with the New World.
April 21 - Battle of Cerignola....
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1587: Encyclopedia - 1587
1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
1587 -...
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Henry Viii Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Viii Of England - Religious Upheaval
Background
Christianity
Protestant Reformation
Apostolic Succession
Roman Catholicism
Episcopal structure
People
Thomas Cranmer
Henry VII...
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1565: Encyclopedia - 1565
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...
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1492: Encyclopedia - 1492
1492 - Events.
January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after ...
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Decapitation: Encyclopedia Ii - Decapitation - Some Famous Persons Who Have Been Beheaded
Decapitation - Biblical.
Goliath
John the Baptist in the Gospels
Holofernes in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith
Apostle James, trad...
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Henry Viii Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Viii Of England - Style And Arms
Henry VIII was the first English monarch to regularly use the style "Majesty", though the alternatives "Highness" and "Grace" were also u...
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Protestant Reformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Protestant Reformation - History And Origins
Protestant Reformation - Roots and precursors: 14th Century and 15th Century.
Anti-hierarchical movements: Catharism, Waldensianism, a...
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John Calvin: Encyclopedia Ii - John Calvin - Writings By Calvin
Calvin published several revisions of his Institutes of the Christian Religion — a seminal work in Christian theology that is still rea...
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Divorce: Encyclopedia Ii - Divorce - Divorce's Financial Implications
Divorce leads to the creation of two households rather than one, with consequent increased costs. All parties suffer these effects. As mo...
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Irish Confederate Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Confederate Wars - See Also
PEOPLE associated with the period include;
Soldiers: Owen Roe O'Neill, Thoma Preston, Alasdair MacColla, Hugh Dubh O'Neill, Henry Ireton,...
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Albert Ludwigs University Of Freiburg: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Ludwigs University Of Freiburg - History
The university started with four faculties (theology, philosophy, medicine and law), its establishment belongs to the second wave of germ...
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List Of Hispanics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Hispanics - Artists
List of Hispanics - Architects.
Luis Barragán (1902–1988), 1980 Pritzker Prize Laureate.
Ricardo Bofill (b. 1939), one of the mai...
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Santiago De Cali: Encyclopedia Ii - Santiago De Cali - History
Santiago de Cali - Precolumbian and conquest.
Before the arrival of the spaniards the actual region of Cali was inhabited by many indig...
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Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Grave
In August 2005, a team of Polish archeologists led by Jerzy Gąssowski, head of an archaeology and anthropology institute in Pułtusk, in...
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Chibcha: Encyclopedia Ii - Chibcha - Linguistics
The Chibcha language (Chibchan) was so important in the area that when the Spanish conquerors came they had a communication problem in th...
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Barbados: Encyclopedia Ii - Barbados - Economy
Historically, the economy of Barbados had been dependent on sugarcane cultivation and related activities, but production in recent years ...
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Barbados: Encyclopedia Ii - Barbados - Demographics
Barbados has a population of about 279 thousand and growth rate of 0.33% (Mid-2005 estimates). Close to 90 percent of all Barbadians (als...
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Buenos Aires: Encyclopedia Ii - Buenos Aires - Economy
Buenos Aires is the financial, industrial, commercial, and cultural hub of Argentina. Its port is one of the busiest in the world; naviga...
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Amish: Encyclopedia Ii - Amish - Other
People who are not well acquainted with Mormonism and the Amish sometimes confuse the two, despite the vast differences between them. The...
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Incest: Encyclopedia Ii - Incest - Genetics
Today, the general availability of birth control methods has made inbreeding a largely separate issue from incest. Opponents of incest ar...
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List Of Spaniards: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Spaniards - Musicians
List of Spaniards - Classical.
Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), composer.
Pau Casals (1876–1973), cello player and conductor.
Manuel de...
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Corfu: Encyclopedia Ii - Corfu - Geography
The name Corfu is an Italian corruption of the Byzantine Κορυφώ (Koryphō), which is derived from the Greek Κορυφαί (Koryph...
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Unreformed House Of Commons: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreformed House Of Commons - Movements For Reform
During the English Revolution of the 1640s, the electoral system for the House of Commons was scrapped (and the House of Lords abolished)...
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Poor Law: Encyclopedia - Poor Law
The Poor Law was the system for the provision of social security in operation in England and the United Kingdom from the 16th century unt...
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Neo-confucianism: Encyclopedia - Neo-confucianism
Neo-Confucianism (理學 Pinyin: Lǐxué) is a term for a form of Confucianism that was primarily developed during the Song dynasty, but ...
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