1627 - Events. July 22 - English under the Duke of Buckingham invade the Ré Island in support of the huguenots in La Rochelle. The invasion does not go well A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia. The aurochs are hunted to extinction, the last being killed by poachers in Poland. England places the first European settlers on Barbados. Siege of La Rochelle begins Korea becomes a tributary state of China ...

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April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). There are 266 days remaining. April 9 - Events. 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans). 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies. 1667: First public art exhibition opens in Paris 1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it f ...

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Marwar (मारवाड़) is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. The word Marwar is derived from Sanskrit word 'Maruwat'. English translation of the word is "region of death", reflecting harsh climatic conditions. Other view is that the word 'Marwar' is made up of 'Mar' from alternate name of Jaisalmer and last part ‘war’ of Mewar. Marwar - Geography. Marwar is a sandy plain lying northwest of the Aravalli Range, which runs southwest- ...

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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 Hugueno ...

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1625 - Events. March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. June 13 - Marriage of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra. June 15 - Breda surrenders to the Spanish troops of general Ambrogio de Spinola The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead. William Oughtred invents the slide rule. J ...

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December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining. December 7 - Events. 1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. 1776 - Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general. 1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1815 - Michel Ney, Marshal of France, is executed by firing squad, after havin ...

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1632 - Events. February 22 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe November 8 - Wladyslaw IV Waza elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Zygmunt III Waza death November 16 - Battle of Lützen Fasilidos succeeds his father Sissinios as Emperor of Ethiopia Christina becomes queen of Sweden; five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern country. Antigu ...

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1615 - Events. June 2 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. June 4 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years. The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote is published. End of the Sengoku Period in Japan. 1615 - Births. January 14 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662) January 25 - Gover ...

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1494 - Events. January 25 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. May 31 - Natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches, defeat invading Spanish forces at the First Battle of Acentejo. June 7 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. October 22 - Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan. Start of the Italian Wars. The University of Aberdeen is founded by the bishop of Aberdeen. Amda Seyon ...

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1490 - Events. Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan. Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent. Aldus Manutius moves to Venice. John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford. Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun. Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia. Catholic missionaries arrive in the African ...

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The numbers 14 88 are sometimes used as a code to express a racist message. 1488 - Births. January 6 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (died 1540) March 19 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544) Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (died 1534) Myles Coverdale, English Bib ...

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1520 - Events. January 18 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde. June - Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan is declared deposed due to his captivity by conquistador Hernán Cortés. His brother Cuitláhuac rises to the throne. June 7 - Field of Cloth of Gold. Famous meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France. July 1 - The forces of Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan gain a major victory against the forc ...

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1496 - Events. January 3 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. March 10 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere. July - Spanish forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples. Jesus College (University of Cambridge) founded. ...

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1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. 1586 - Events. September 22 - The battle of Zutphen occurs. November 19 - Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned. The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan. William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.Including:

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1602 - Events. 3 January - Battle of Kinsale - the battle happened on 3 January 1602 according to the Gregorian Calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle, although, for the English who were still using the old Julian Calendar, the date of the battle was 24 December 1601 February 14 - William Shakespeare First performance of Twelfth Night on Candlemas March 20 - The Dutch East India Company is established as The United East India Company by the Dutch States-G ...

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1612 - Events. January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. Antonius Magirus's Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck is published. Popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops. Trial of the Pendle Witches in Pendle, Lancashire is held. November 30 - Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage in the Battle of Swally off the coast of India, which the British win. December 28 - Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe th ...

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1595 - Events. January 30 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. William Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night's Dream. May 24 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness. September 15 - Group of pupils of Edinburgh High School barricade ...

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The written history of Scotland largely began with the arrival of the Roman Empire in Britain, when the Romans occupied what is now England and Wales, administering it as a Roman province called Britannia. Much of Southern Scotland was indirectly controlled by Rome. To the north was territory not conquered by the Romans—Caledonia, peopled by the Picts, with the Scots of Dalriada in Argyll. Pictland became dominated by the Pictish sub-kingdom of Fortriu, but the Kingdom of Scotland is traditionally dated from 843, when Cináed mac Ai ...

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The Pratihara clan of Rajputs, also known as the Gurjara-Pratiharas, established a kingdom in Marwar in the 6th century, with a capital at Mandor, 9 km from present-day Jodhpur. The ruined city of Osian or Ossian, 65 km from Jodhpur, was an important religious centre of the Pratihara period, and has a collection of Hindu and Jain temples of the 8th through 11th centuries. The Jodhpur state was founded in the 13th century by the Rathor clan of Rajputs, who claim descent from the Gahadvala kings of Kannauj. After the sacking of Kannauj ...

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Violin - Construction. A violin typically consists of a spruce top, maple ribs and back, a neck, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings, optionally including a chinrest, which may attach directly over, or to the left of, the tailpiece. A distinctive feature of a violin body is its "hourglass" shape and the arching of its top and back. The hourglass shape formed by an upper bout, a lower bout, and two conc ...

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The field of UFOs does not always necessarily overlap the paranormal, although in practice it often does. Some researchers, such as John Keel and Jacques Vallee, argue that there is a direct relationship between UFOs and paranormal phenomena. Also, some religious sects have made UFOs a part of their core beliefs. See Paranormal and Occult Hypotheses About UFOs. Many ancient religious paintings contain images that have been interpreted as UFOs and alien beings. Some also believe that over long periods of history, nonhuman intelligen ...

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From England, after the death of Edward, Knox proceeded to the continent, traveling for a time from place to place in some uncertainty. In Sept. 1554, while living at Geneva, he accepted in accordance with Calvin's counsel a call to the English Church at Frankfurt. Here controversies in connection with vestments, ceremonies, and the use of the English prayer-book met him, and, notwithstanding the great moderation which he showed from first to last, led, in Mar., 1555, to his resignation of his charge (cf. his treatise, A Brief Narrative o ...

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