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1540 - Events. January 6 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort. July 9 - King Henry VIII of England divorces Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort. July 28 - One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from the king on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day. Spain, Foundation of Society of Jesus, Catholicism F ...

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Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), or Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, was an architect born in Padua, Italy. Apprenticed as a stonecutter in Padua when he was 13, he broke his contract after only 18 months and fled to the nearby town of Vicenza. In Vicenza, he became an assistant in the leading workshop of stonecutters and masons. The Palladian style is named after him, a style which adhered to classical Roman principles, as opposed to the rich ornamentation of the Renaissance. Palladio designed many churches, villas, and p ...

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Saint Angela Merici (1474? - 1540) was an Italian religious leader and saint born in Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Lombardy. She founded the Order of Ursulines in 1535 in Brescia. Merici was beatified in 1768 by Clement XIII and canonized in 1807 by Pius VII. She is buried in the Church of St. Afra at Brescia and her Catholic feast day is January 27. Angela Merici - Early Life. Merici born in Desenzano del Garda in Brescia, near the Lago di Garda. Her mother died while she was young, and soon moved ...

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For the song (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth by Metallica, go here. Anesthesia (American English), also anaesthesia (British English), is the process of blocking the perception of pain and other sensations. This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience. It comes from the Greek roots an-, "without" and aesthetos, "perceptible, able to feel". Anesthesia - Types. There are several forms of anesthesia: ...

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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Agen is a town and commune located in the Aquitaine région in southern France, on the river Garonne, 84 miles above Bordeaux. It is the préfecture of the Lot-et-Garonne département. Agen - Sights. The 12th century cathedral of Agen, St. Caprais, is one of the barest handful of large churches in Fran ...

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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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Agadir (اكادير in arabic) is a city in southwest Morocco, capital of the Souss-Massa-Dra region. It has a population of 678,596 (2004 census figure including near cities of Inezgane and Aït Melloul) for the agglomeration and an estimated 200,000 for the city proper. The mild winter climate (January average midday temperature 20°C/68°F) and good beaches have made it a major "winter sun" destination for Northern Europeans. Its mayor is currently Tariq Kabbaj. The city is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the poi ...

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Anne of Cleves also known as "The Mare of Flanders" (see below) (September 22, 1515 – July 16, 1557) was the queen consort of Henry VIII of England from January 6, 1540 to July 9, 1540. Anne was born on September 22, 1515, at Düsseldorf, the daughter of John III, ruler of the duchy of Cleves, who had died in 1538. Now her brother William IV "The Rich" was Duke of Cleves, Jülich and Berg, bearing the promising epithet "The Rich". Her elder sister Sybille was married to John Frederick, Elector of Saxony, head of the Pr ...

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Apache is the collective name for several culturally related tribes of Native Americans, aboriginal inhabitants of North America, who speak a Southern Athabaskan language. The modern term excludes the related Navajo people. Apache is a Zuñi language word that means "enemies" and was used by the Zuni to refer to the tribes that called themselves the Diné. It was adopted by Western settlers as the actual name of the Diné, although it was meant as slur by the Zuni. The Apache peoples migrated from the Northern Plains into the Southwest relatively recently. Noted leaders have incl ...

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The Crown of Scotland was made in its modern form for King James V of Scotland in 1540. It is part of the Honours of Scotland, the oldest set of royal regalia in the United Kingdom. Crown of Scotland - Manufacture. The crown manufactured for James V was refashioned from an older, lighter, damaged crown by the royal goldsmith, John Mosman in 1540. It has two arches (or four half-arches), on which a golden monde sits, topped off by a cross. It is made mainly of gold and contains 22 gemstones an ...

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August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. August 23 - Events. 1305 - William Wallace is executed. 1328 - Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers 1328 - King Philip VI of France is crowned. 1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. 1566 - Calvinists are granted rights in the NetherlandsIncluding:

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The Ashikaga shogunate (Japanese 足利幕府, Ashikaga bakufu, 1336–1573) was a feudal military dictatorship ruled by the shoguns of the Ashikaga family. This period is also known as the Muromachi period and gets its name from the Muromachi area of Kyoto where the third shogun Yoshimitsu established his residence. In part because the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji, did so by siding with the Emperor against the previous Kamakura shogunate, the Ashikagas shared more of the governmental author ...

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Unto These Hills is the third oldest outdoor historical drama in the United States after The Lost Colony in Manteo, North Carolina. The play, written by Kermit Hunter (who is also credited with writing the scripts for many other outdoor dramas), opened at the Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, North Carolina July 1, 1950. The play opens with the 'discovery' of the Cherokee by Hernando de Soto in 1540 and then jumps to 1811 to follow the story of the Cherokee of this region up to their removal, via the Trail of Tear ...

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The Bishopric and Archbishopric of Trier was one of the important ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. Unlike the other Rhenish archbishoprics— Mainz and Cologne— Trier, as the important Roman provincial capital of Augusta Treverorum, had been the seat of a bishop since Roman times. It was raised to to archepiscopal status during the reign of Charlemagne, whose will mentio ...

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David Joris (ca. 1501 - 1556, aka Jan Jorisz or Joriszoon) was an important Anabaptist leader in the Netherlands before 1540. Joris was probably born in Flanders, the son of Marytje and Georgius Joris de Koman, an amateur actor and shopkeeper. He was a disciple of Melchior Hoffman. By trade David Joris was a glass painter or tinsel painter, having learned the art in Antwerp. In 1524 he married Dirckgen Willems, and also took interest in the Reformation movement of Martin Luther. In 1533 he accepted the ideas of the Anaba ...

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1614 - Births. January 1 - John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672) January 5 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662) July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686) December 16 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674 1614 - Month/day unknown. Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist who first distilled beverage alcohol (d. 1672) ...

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1600 - Events. 1600 - January. January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Year's Day 1600 - February. February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for heresy in Rome 1600 - July. July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert in a battle on the coastal dunes. 1600 - Octo ...

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Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The most popular of these worldwide is Association football, which is called soccer in several countries. The English language word football is also applied to Rugby football (Rugby union and Rugby league), American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, and Canadian football. When the term "foot ball" originated, it referred to a wide variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot — that is, by peasants — as oppose ...

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A castle (from the Latin castellum, diminutive of castra, a military camp, in turn the plural of castrum or watchpost), is a fort, a camp and the logical development of a fortified enclosure. The term is most often applied to a small self-contained fortress, usually of the Middle Ages, though traditionally in Britain it has also referred to prehistoric earthworks (e.g. Hollingbury Castle, Maiden Castle). "Castle" sometimes denotes citadels (such as the castles of Badajoz and Burgos) or small detached forts d'ar ...

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Background Christianity St. Augustine The Reformation Distinctives Calvin's Institutes Five Solas Five Points (TULIP) Regulative principle Confessions of faith Influences Theodore Beza Synod of Dort Puritan theology Jonathan Edwards Princeton theologians Karl Barth Churches Reformed Presbyterian Congregationalist Reformed Baptist Peoples Afrikaner Calvinists
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