1549 - Events. July - Kett's Rebellion Francis Xavier arrives in Japan. Salvador established, first capital of Brazil Petrus Canisius starts the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria 1549 - Births. July 30 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1609) November 5 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (died 1623) Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (died 1625) Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanes ...

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The name Andrew Downes can refer to two people: Andrew Downes (composer) (b. 1950), a British classical composer, and Andrew Downes (scholar), also known as Dounaeus, (c. 1549-1628) an English classical scholar. Other related archivesAndrew Downes (composer), Andrew Downes (scholar)

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Kirishitan (吉利支丹, 切支丹) meant Christian(s) in Japanese and is today used as a historiographic term for Christians in Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries. This article overviews Christianity in Japan at the time. The propagation activities of Catholicism in Japan were started in 1549 and exclusively performed by Portugal-sponsored Jesuits until Spain-sponsored mendicant orders gained access to Japan. Christianity was prohibited several times by the government and ceased to exist publicly in the 17th century. Including:

Kirishitan - The line of demarcations between Spain and Portugal Kirishitan - Propagation strategy Kirishitan - Economic activities Kirishitan - Military activities Kirishitan - Japan's policy toward Catholicism Kirishitan - Christian view of Kirishitan history

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Daniel Bomberg (d. 1549) was an early printer of Hebrew language books. A Christian himself, born in Antwerp, he was primarily active in Venice between 1516 and 1549. He produced the editio princeps of the Mikraot Gedolot, the Rabbinic Bible, consisting of the Hebrew text plus rabbinical commentaries, between 1516 and 1517, and the first complete Talmud, between 1520 and 1523. Bomberg found a ready audience among the Jews of Italy, whose numbers had been swelled by exiles from Spain and Portugal. Bomberg's presses eventually produced some 230 Hebrew books, and his innovations in H ...

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On October 28, 1533, he married Catherine of Medici (April 13, 1519 - January 5, 1589) Issue: François II (January 19, 1544 - December 5, 1560) Elisabeth de France (April 2, 1545 - October 3, 1568) married Philip II of Spain Claude (November 12, 1547 - February 21, 1575) married Charles II, Duke of Lorraine Louis (February 3, 1549 - October, 1549) Charles-Maximilien (Charles IX) (June 27, 1550 - May 30, 1574) Edouard Alexandre (Henry III) (September 19, 1551 - August 2, ...

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Henry II of France, Henry II of France - Marriage and children, Henry II of France - Prophecy

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Also Veterus Vitiris Vheterus Huetiris Hueterus. In ancient Celtic polytheism, the supposed deified masculine spirit of air-flow, the Romano-British basis of the character Gwythr ap Greidawl of Welsh mythology. Veteros - Centres of worship. Veteros was worshipped in Roman Britain and altar-stones raised to him have been recovered in the United Kingdom, such as those excavated at Netherby (973 [Huetiri]) Carrawburgh (1549 [Huiteribus]) Housesteads (1602 [Hueteri], 1603 [Huitri]) Hadr ...

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Bonner resisted the visitation of August 1547, and was committed to the Fleet Prison; but he withdrew his opposition, and was released in time to take an active part against the government in the parliament of November 1547. In the next session, November 1548-March 1549, he was a leading opponent of the first Act of Uniformity and Book of Common Prayer. When these became law, he neglected to enforce them, and on September 1, 1549 he was required by the council to maintain at St Paul's Cross that the royal authority was as great as if the kin ...

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Edmund Bonner, Edmund Bonner - Early life, Edmund Bonner - An agent of royal supremacy, Edmund Bonner - Realignment with Catholicism, Edmund Bonner - Under Elizabeth, Edmund Bonner - Bonner in historical memory

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Candomblé is an Afro-American religion practiced chiefly in Brazil but also in adjacent countries. The religion came from Africa to Brazil, carried by African priests and adherents who were brought as slaves between 1549 and 1888. The name Batuque is also used, especially before the 19th century when Candomblé became more common. Both words are believed to derive from a Bantu-family language. Although originally confined to the slave population, banned by the Catholic church, and even criminalized by some govern ...

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The Codex Wallerstein (Augsburg University library I.6.4.2) is a 15th century fechtbuch. The title Vom Baumans Fechtbuch appears on the first page, together with the date 1549. The Codex came in the possession of Paulus Hector Mair in 1556. It consists of 221 pages, illustrating techniques of fighting with the longsword, dussack and dagger, armored and unarmored, stechschild, as well a system of grappling. The manuscript is a convolution of three parts, clearly separable by three different styles of illustration. The par ...

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Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 - March 29, 1625), Spanish historian, was born at Cuéllar, in the province of Segovia. Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas - Biography. His father, Roderigo de Tordesillas, and his mother, Agnes de Herrera, were both of good family. After studying for some time in his native country, Herrera proceeded to Italy, and there became secretary to Vespasian Gonzago, with whom, on his appointment as viceroy of Navarre, he returned to Spain. Gonzago, sensible of his secre ...

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Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas - Biography Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas - The Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas - Herrara's main works

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Claude Goudimel was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He was born in Besançon around 1510, and was murdered August 27, 1572 in Lyon. He is known to have been in Paris in 1549, probably studying at the University of Paris, since he published a book of chansons there. He moved to Metz in 1557, converting to Protestantism, and is known to have been associated with the Huguenot cause there; however he left Metz due to the increasing hostility of the city authorities to Protestants during the Wars of Religion ...

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Gustav's first wife was Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (1513–1535), whom he married on 24 September 1531. They had a son: Eric XIV (1533–1577) On 1 October 1536 he married his second wife, Margareta Leijonhufvud (1514–1551). Their children were: John III (Johan III) (1537–1592) Katharina (1539–1610). A great-grandmother of Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Cecilia (1540–1627) Magnus (1542–1595) Carl (1544) Anna Maria (1545–1610) Sten (1546–1549) Sofia (1547–1611) Elisabeth (1549–1598) ...

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Gustav I of Sweden, Gustav I of Sweden - Early life, Gustav I of Sweden - Reformation, Gustav I of Sweden - Further reign, Gustav I of Sweden - End of his reign, Gustav I of Sweden - Heritage, Gustav I of Sweden - Gallery, Gustav I of Sweden - Family

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In 1549 Japan had its first contact with Christians in Kagoshima. The Spanish missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Kagoshima and was given a friendly welcome. Kagoshima was bombarded by the British Royal Navy in 1863 to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the murder of Charles Richardson on the Tōkaidō highway the previous year, and the refusal to pay an indemnity in compensation. (See 'Bombardment of Kagoshima'). Kagoshima was the birthplace and scene of the last stand of Saigo Takamori, a legendary figure in Meiji Japan in 1877 at t ...

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Kagoshima Kagoshima, Kagoshima Kagoshima - History, Kagoshima Kagoshima - Sister Cities

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Although the Bay of Todos os Santos was first encountered by Europeans and christened in 1502, the city of Salvador wasn't founded until 1549 by a fleet of Portuguese settlers headed by Thomé de Souza, the first governador-geral (governor general) of the entire colony of Brazil. It quickly became Brazil's main sea port and the first colonial capital of Portuguese Brazil, a center of the sugar industry and the slave trade. The city became the seat of the first Catholic bishop of Brazil in 1552, and is still an ecclesiastical power center of ...

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The Portuguese Pedro Álvares Cabral landed at what is now Porto Seguro, on the southern coast of Bahia in 1500, and claimed the territory for Portugal. In 1549, Portugal established the city of Salvador. The city and surrounding captaincy served as the administrative and religious capital of Portugal's colonies in the Americas until 1763. The Dutch held control of Bahia from May 1624 through April 1625. Charles Darwin visited Bahia in 1832 on his famous Voyage of The Beagle. The state was also the last area of Brazil to join the independent confederation; it remained loyal to the Portuguese crown for two years after the rest of the ...

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As a literary genre, the novella's origin lay in the early Renaissance literary work of the Italians and the French. Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), author of The Decameron (1353)—one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), [aka Marguerite de Valois, et. alii.], author of Heptaméron (1559)—seventy-two original French tales (structured like The Decameron). Her psychological acuity and didactic purpose out-weigh the unfinishe ...

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Novella, Novella - History, Novella - Novella versus novel

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Though refined card games were played in Japan by the nobility since its early eras, they were not commonly used for gambling, or played by the lower classes. This changed, however, in the 18th year of Tenmon (A.D. 1549) when Saint Francisco Xavier landed in Japan. The crew of his ship had carried a set of Hombre (48-card Portuguese) playing cards from Europe, and card games became very popular among the Japanese. When Japan closed off all contact with the Western world in 1633 ...

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Hanafuda, Hanafuda - History, Hanafuda - Game play, Hanafuda - Cards, Hanafuda - Play, Hanafuda - Special Scores

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Nagasaki - Medieval era. Founded before 1500, Nagasaki was originally secluded by harbors. It enjoyed little historical significance until contact with European explorers in 1542, when a Portuguese ship accidentally landed nearby, somewhere in Kagoshima prefecture. The zealous Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in another part of the territory in 1549, but left for China in 1551 and died soon afterwards. His followers who remained behind converted a number of daimyo (feudal lords). The most notable a ...

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Nagasaki, Nagasaki - History, Nagasaki - Medieval era, Nagasaki - Modern era, Nagasaki - Nagasaki in Western music and song, Nagasaki - Sights, Nagasaki - Foods, Nagasaki - Universities in Nagasaki, Nagasaki - Sister Cities

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In 1549, he joined the naval fleet of the first Portuguese Governor-General Tomé de Souza (1502-1579), following a request by King D. João III to the Society of Jesus, in order to start the missionary work of converting the Amerindians (who were heathen in the eyes of the Catholic Church); of building churches and religious seminars, and of educating the colonists (who were, in the beginning, mostly degredados, or common criminals, political and religious prison ...

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Manoel da Nóbrega, Manoel da Nóbrega - Early life, Manoel da Nóbrega - Missionary in Brazil, Manoel da Nóbrega - War and Expansion

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