1578 - Article Index

Article - Law Of Attraction: The Ultimate Guide To The Law Of Attraction
What is the Law of Attraction? Law of attraction has many different labels, "Success consciousness", "Law of Magnetism&...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1578: Encyclopedia - 1578
1578 - Events. January 31 - Battle of Gemblours - Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. Don...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 19: Encyclopedia - April 19
April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). There are 256 days remaining. April 19 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 14: Encyclopedia - April 14
April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining. April 14 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 30: Encyclopedia - April 30
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemisia Gentileschi: Encyclopedia - Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1653) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early Baroque painters in the generation inf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 17: Encyclopedia - August 17
August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 136 days remaining. August 17 - Events...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 4: Encyclopedia - August 4
August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. August 4 - Events. 126...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 1: Encyclopedia - April 1
April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. April 1 - Events. 527 - B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Talmud: Encyclopedia - Talmud
The Talmud (תלמוד) is a record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, Jewish ethics, customs, legends and stories, which Jewish trad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shroud Of Turin: Encyclopedia - Shroud Of Turin
The Shroud of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alaouite Dynasty: Encyclopedia - Alaouite Dynasty
The Alaouite Dynasty is the name of the current Moroccan royal family. The name Alaouite comes from its founder, Al-Raschid (or Ali Cheri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Altan Khan: Encyclopedia - Altan Khan
Altan Khan (1507-1582), whose given name was Anda, was the de facto ruler of the Right Wing of the Mongols and exercised his power over w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 8: Encyclopedia - August 8
August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. August 8 - Events. 150...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglican Church Of Canada: Encyclopedia - Anglican Church Of Canada
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) is the Canadian branch of the Anglican Communion. It is made up of 800,000 members worshipping in 30 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 10: Encyclopedia - April 10
April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). There are 265 days remaining. April 10 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biernat Of Lublin: Encyclopedia - Biernat Of Lublin
Biernat of Lublin (Polish: Biernat z Lublina, 1465? – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist and physician. He was one of the first Po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pertussis: Encyclopedia - Pertussis
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious disease that is one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Harvey: Encyclopedia - William Harvey
William Harvey (1578–1657) was a medical doctor who is credited with first correctly describing, in exact detail, the properties of blo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Compendium Of Materia Medica: Encyclopedia - Compendium Of Materia Medica
The Compendium of Materia Medica (Chinese: 本草綱目; pinyin: Běncǎo Gāngmù) is a pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen (1518-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vernier Scale: Encyclopedia - Vernier Scale
A vernier scale lets one read more precisely from an evenly divided straight or circular measurement scale. It is fitted with a sliding s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uesugi Kenshin: Encyclopedia - Uesugi Kenshin
Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信, Uesugi Kenshin?)(February 18, 1530 - April 19, 1578) was a warlord who ... Including: Uesugi Kenshin - Not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornelius Drebbel: Encyclopedia - Cornelius Drebbel
Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel (Alkmaar, 1572 - London, November 7, 1633) was a Dutch inventor of first navigable submarine in 1620. Drebbe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Morgan Bible Translator: Encyclopedia - William Morgan Bible Translator
William Morgan (1545 – September 10, 1604), was the translator of the first version of the whole Bible into Welsh. Morgan was born in 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodeyar: Encyclopedia - Wodeyar
The Wodeyar dynasty (also spelt as Wadiyar-by the British and the Royal family members themselves and also as Odeyar by some) was an Indi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catacombs Of Rome: Encyclopedia - Catacombs Of Rome
The Catacombs of Rome are ancient Christian underground burial places near Rome, Italy. Etruscans used to bury their dead in underground ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benghazi: Encyclopedia - Benghazi
Benghazi (Arabic بنغازي, transliterated Banġāzī) is a seaport in Libya, Africa. The present name is derived from that of a pious...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chapbook: Encyclopedia - Chapbook
Chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklet, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Ix Of France: Encyclopedia - Charles Ix Of France
Charles IX (June 27, 1550 – May 30, 1574) was born Charles-Maximilien, the son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de Medici. He w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zacharias Ursinus: Encyclopedia - Zacharias Ursinus
Zacharias Ursinus (1534-1583), a sixteenth century German theologian, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). Like all you...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bayonne: Encyclopedia - Bayonne
2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military perso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles De Luynes: Encyclopedia - Charles De Luynes
Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578 - December 15, 1621), was constable of France and the first duke of Luynes. He was the first son of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1539: Encyclopedia - 1539
1539 - Events. May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1535: Encyclopedia - 1535
1535 - Events. January 18 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro April - Jacques Cartier discovers the Iroquois city of Stadacona, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1547: Encyclopedia - 1547
1547 - Events. January 16 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia. January 28 - Edward VI succeeds his father...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1553: Encyclopedia - 1553
MIL-STD-1553 1553 - Births. January 22 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625) May 14 - Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1570s: Encyclopedia - 1570s
1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 Significant Events and Trends Transition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1554: Encyclopedia - 1554
1554 - Events. January 5 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands. February - Thomas Wyatt surrenders to government forces in London. Fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1530: Encyclopedia - 1530
1530 - Events. June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire. August 12 - Florence is captured by Spanish ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1527: Encyclopedia - 1527
1527 - Events. January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1501: Encyclopedia - 1501
1501 - Births. January 16 - Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559) January 17 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physicia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1498: Encyclopedia - 1498
1498 - Events. Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Moçambique in southeastern Africa. May 20 - Vasco da Gama arriv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1502: Encyclopedia - 1502
1502 - Events. January 1 - Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1515: Encyclopedia - 1515
1515 - Year in topics. 1515 in art 1515 - Births. March 28 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died 1582) Jul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1520: Encyclopedia - 1520
1520 - Events. January 18 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde. June - Moctezuma II, Aztec rule...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - December 15: Encyclopedia - December 15
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining. December 15 - Eve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1604: Encyclopedia - 1604
1604 - Events. January 14 – Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1660: Encyclopedia - 1660
1660 - Events. Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. January 1 - colonel George Monck w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1657: Encyclopedia - 1657
1657 - Events. January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - October 1: Encyclopedia - October 1
October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). There are 91 days remaining. October 1 - Events. 331 BC - Alexander the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - March 29: Encyclopedia - March 29
March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). There are 277 days remaining. March 29 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devič: Encyclopedia - Devič
Devič (Девич) is a female Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Drenica district , near Srbica, in the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohia. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ortelius: Encyclopedia - Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Orthellius, Abraham Ortels, Abraham Wortels) (April 14, 1527 - 1598) was a cartographer and geographer, credite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1650: Encyclopedia - 1650
1650 - Ongoing events. Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653) 1650 - Births. February 2 - Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1642: Encyclopedia - 1642
1642 - Events. January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. Beginning of Eng...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1610: Encyclopedia - 1610
1610 - Science. Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum, first lecture book about chemistry 1610 - Births. Li Yu, Chinese writer (died 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1606: Encyclopedia - 1606
1606 - Events. January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Sup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1621: Encyclopedia - 1621
1621 - Events. February 9 - Gregory XV is elected pope. February 17 - Miles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth Colon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1637: Encyclopedia - 1637
1637 - Events. February 3 - Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) by government order February 15 - Ferd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1640: Encyclopedia - 1640
1640 - Events. Charles I summons and rapidly dismisses the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops Wars. Octo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 11: Encyclopedia - August 11
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 142 days remaining. August 11 - Events...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1536: Encyclopedia - 1536
1536 - Events. February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. February 25 - Jacob Hutter burned at the stake f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oda Nobunaga: Encyclopedia Ii - Oda Nobunaga - Life
Oda Nobunaga - Young Nobunaga. In 1534, Nobunaga was born to regional daimyo Oda Nobuhide in the Shobata Castle. He was Nobuhide's thir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plantations Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Plantations Of Ireland - Early Plantations
The early Plantations of Ireland occurred in the context of the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland. This hoped to pacify and Anglicise Ireland ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolas Eymeric: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolas Eymeric - Life
Nicolas Eymeric - Education and early tenure as Inquisitor General. Nicolas Eymeric was born in Gerona c. 1320. He entered the local mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Brazil - Popular Music
The field of Brazilian popular music can be traced back to the 1930s, when radio spread songs across the country. Popular music included ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duke Of Rutland: Encyclopedia Ii - Duke Of Rutland - Second Creation
Thomas Manners (c. 1488-1543), son of the 12th Baron de Ros of Hamlake, Truibut and Belvoir, was created earl of Rutland in the peerage o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moses Isserles: Encyclopedia Ii - Moses Isserles - Biography
Rabbi Isserles was born in Kraków. His father was a prominent Talmudist, said to have been independently wealthy, and probably headed th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imperial Crypt Vaults: Encyclopedia Ii - Imperial Crypt Vaults - Leopold's Vault
The Leopoldsgruft was built under the nave of the church above, beginning in 1657 by Emperor Leopold I,37 following the edict of his fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portugal: Encyclopedia Ii - Portugal - History
Portugal - Lusitania. Main articles: Pre-Roman and Roman Lusitania In the early first millennium BC, several waves of Celts invaded Por...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Earl Of Orkney: Encyclopedia Ii - Earl Of Orkney - Norse Earls
The original Earl of Orkney was a Norse jarl controlling Orkney in the period 875-1231. When the line became extinct, the earldom of Cait...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cathedral Of Saint Bavo: Encyclopedia Ii - Cathedral Of Saint Bavo - History
Since 1853 the church of St. Joseph had served as a cathedral but it proved to be too small almost immediately, despite enlargements. Bis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Croatia In The Habsburg Empire - 19th Century Up To Wwi
The governments of Austria and Hungary each tried to colonize Croatia over a period of several centuries: they imposed their languages on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duke Of Braganza: Encyclopedia Ii - Duke Of Braganza - History
The Duchy of Bragança, a Royal Dukedom, was created in 1442 by king Afonso V of Portugal for his uncle Afonso, Count of Barcelos (natura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Portugal 1578-1777: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Portugal 1578-1777 - Loss Of Independence
The Battle of Alcazarquivir in 1578 saw both the death of the young king Sebastian and the end of the House of Aviz. Sebastian's successo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Empire - The Beginnings Of The Empire 1415-1580
The countries that we now know as Spain and Portugal spent the Middle Ages after 722 in an intermittent struggle called the Reconquista. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ironclad Warship: Encyclopedia Ii - Ironclad Warship - 19th Century Ironclads
At the Battle of Sinope in 1853, the Russian Baltic Fleet, equipped with newly developed Paixhans guns using explosive shells, destroyed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jan Zamoyski: Encyclopedia Ii - Jan Zamoyski - Biography
Jan Zamoyski - Early years: the royal supporter. He attended the University of Paris and University of Padua. Since his student days he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Moderators Of The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Moderators Of The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland - 17th Century
No General Assembly until 1638 1638, 1641 and 1643 Alexander Henderson AM (Leuchars, later Edinburgh) 1639, 1652 and (?)1653 David Dicks...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Limehouse: Encyclopedia Ii - Limehouse - History
From its earliest days, Limehouse, like neighbouring Wapping, has followed the sea. This was one of London's most important ports from la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Battles Geographic: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Battles Geographic - Croatia
List of battles geographic - Croatian War of Independence. Battle of Vukovar - 1991 Operation Storm - 1995 ... See also:List of bat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Assassinated People: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Assassinated People - Assassinations In Africa
List of assassinated people - Algeria. Hiempsal, (117 BC), co-ruler of Numidia, by Jugurtha François Darlan, (1942), French Admiral, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Spaniards: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Spaniards - Artists
List of Spaniards - Architects. See also: Category:Spanish architects. Ricardo Bofill (b. 1939), one of the main representatives of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lodovico Agostini: Encyclopedia Ii - Lodovico Agostini - Music And Influence
Ferrara, in the 1580s and 1590s, was one of the most musically advanced and sophisticated places in Europe. Under the patronage of Duke A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Kings Of Persia: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Kings Of Persia - Rulers After The Advent Of Islam In Iran
List of kings of Persia - Arab caliphs rule. All Persian provinces fell under The Arabic Caliphate from 661 to 867. Umayyad dynasty, 6...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Rulers Named Henry: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Rulers Named Henry - Germany And Holy Roman Empire
This refers to a much disputed line of kings that have in one way or another dominated Germany since the time of Charlemagne. Henry I (9...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joan Boyle: Encyclopedia Ii - Joan Boyle - Joan Boyle Mother Of The First Earl Of Cork
Joan Boyle (October 15, 1529 - March 26, 1586) (referred to by her maiden name Joan Naylor) was the mother of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary I Of Scotland: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary I Of Scotland - Return To Scotland
The young widow returned to Scotland soon after, and arrived in Leith on August 19, 1561. She was still only 18 and, despite her talents,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady Douglas Sheffield: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady Douglas Sheffield - Family
She was born Douglas Howard in approximately 1545, the daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham and Margaret Gamage, dau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady Frances Brandon: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady Frances Brandon - Early Life And First Marriage
Frances spend her childhood in the care of her mother. She was also close to her aunt-by-marriage Catherine of Aragon, first queen consor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of The Kings Of Georgia: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of The Kings Of Georgia - Ancient Iberia
Iberia was a Greek-Roman name of the ancient kingdom of Kartli in what is now Eastern Georgia which began about 302 BC and fell to the By...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lublin: Encyclopedia Ii - Lublin - History
The first permanent settlements on the Lublin site were established in the early Middle Ages, though archelogical finds indicate a long, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - House Of Capet: Encyclopedia Ii - House Of Capet - Capets Through History
Over the course of the preceding centuries, Capetians would spread throughout Europe, ruling every form of provincial unit from kingdoms ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erzsébet Báthory: Encyclopedia Ii - Erzsébet Báthory - Life
She was born in Nyírbátor in present-day Hungary on August 7, 1560 and died on August 21, 1614 in Čachtice (Hungarian: Csejte) in pres...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Safavids: Encyclopedia Ii - Safavids - Rise Of The Safavid State
Safavids - Beginnings. During the 15th century, the Ottomans expanded across Anatolia and centralized control by prosecuting Shi'ism. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geldern: Encyclopedia Ii - Geldern - History
Geldern - Dragon legend. According to folk legend, local noblemen Wichard and Lupold of Pont fought a fire-breathing dragon around 878....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Harvey: Encyclopedia Ii - William Harvey - Early Life And Education
Harvey was born in Folkestone, England, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Provost Civil: Encyclopedia Ii - Provost Civil - The Provost In France
The word prévôt (provost) in old French law had many applications. In conformity with its etymology (praepositus) it could be applied t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Crowley Printer: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Crowley Printer - London Publishing Career Under Edward Vi
Political circumstances changed greatly with the death of the king. Reformist hopes for the church were high under the boy king, Edward V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wodeyar: Encyclopedia Ii - Wodeyar - Curse On Wodeyars
No account on Wodeyar is complete without a detailed account on a woman's curse afflicting the family for well over 395 years. The Mysore...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Safed: Encyclopedia Ii - Safed - History
According to legend, Safed was founded by a son of Noah after the great deluge. Historical sources indicate that the town was founded in ...   » Read the article