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1498 - Events. Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Moçambique in southeastern Africa. May 20 - Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa. May 23 - Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope. July 31 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. Christoph ...

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1502 - Events. January 1 - Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio de Janeiro May 9 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the "New World". May 21 - Portuguese discover island of St Helena. December 31 - Cesare Borgia imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitelozzo and Oliveretto - he executes them the next morning. Ivan III of Russia and Mengli Ghiray of Crime ...

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1515 - Year in topics. 1515 in art 1515 - Births. March 28 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died 1582) July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (died 1595) September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (died 1585) September 22 - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (died 1557) October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died 1586) October 8 - Mar ...

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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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December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining. December 15 - Events. 533 - The Battle of Ticameron takes place between the armies of the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer and the eastern Roman Empire under the command of General Belisarius. 687 - St. Sergius I becomes Pope. 1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of ...

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1604 - Events. January 14 – Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans September 20 – Capture of Ostend by Spanish forces under Ambrosio Spinola after a three year siege. October 9 – Supernova 1604 is observed. As of this writing, this was the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. November 1 – At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy Othello is presented for the first time.Including:

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1660 - Events. Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. January 1 - colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. Samuel Pepys began his diary. February 2 – George Monck and his regiment arrive in London February 23 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden. February 27 – John Thurloe reinstated as England's ...

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1657 - Events. January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. April 20 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife Great fire in Edo destroys most of the city and damages Edo castle Accademia del Cimento founded in Florence, Italy - first equivalent to ...

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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 Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. 965 - John XIII becomes Pope. 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam. 1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly. 1795 - Belgium is conquered by Fran ...

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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. 537 - Vigilius is consecrated and enthroned as Pope, replacing Silverius. 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. 1638 - Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden ...

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Devič (Девич) is a female Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Drenica district , near Srbica, in the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohia. The monastery is dedicated to St. Joannicius of Devic. It was built at beginning of 15th century. The founder of the monastery is thought to be Despot Đurađ Branković, who had it built in memory of his daughter. In the Turkish census from 1455, the monastery is mentioned as the church of the Theotokos (dedicated to the Entrance the Holy Theotokos Mary into the Temple). During Turkish occupation the monastery was pulled down, but the church and the site with the grave of St. Joanniciu ...

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Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Orthellius, Abraham Ortels, Abraham Wortels) (April 14, 1527 - 1598) was a cartographer and geographer, credited as the creator of the modern atlas. He was born in Antwerp in modern Belgium. A member of the influential Ortelius family of Augsburg, he traveled extensively in Europe. He is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; south and west Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575-1576); France (1559-1560); England and Ireland (1571), and Italy (15 ...

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1650 - Ongoing events. Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653) 1650 - Births. February 2 - Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (d. 1687) February 5 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (d. 1708) April 20 - William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680) May 26 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722) August 16 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718 ...

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1642 - Events. January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. Beginning of English Civil War. March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America March 19 - the citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare for the Irish Confederates. May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal. July - Charles I besieges ...

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1610 - Science. Jean Beguin - Tyrocinium Chymicum, first lecture book about chemistry 1610 - Births. Li Yu, Chinese writer (died 1680) January 13 - Maria Anna of Austria (died 1665) March 1 - John Pell, English mathematician (died 1685) April 1 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and writer (died 1703) April 22 - Pope Alexander VIII (died 1691) April 23 - Lettice Boyle, English noblewoman (died 1657 ...

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1606 - Events. January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismail's near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Britain The Treaty of Zsitva-Torok ends the Long War between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans in Hungary. The independence of Trans ...

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1621 - Events. February 9 - Gregory XV is elected pope. February 17 - Miles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth Colony March 22 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. March 16 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." April 5 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain. May 24 - Prote ...

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1637 - Events. February 3 - Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) by government order February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor December 17 - Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known as Fermat's last theorem. France places a few missionaries in the Côte d'Ivoire, a country it would come to rule more than 200 years later. England wages war agains ...

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1640 - Events. Charles I summons and rapidly dismisses the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops Wars. October 26 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England. November: The English Long Parliament is summoned. December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. Spain does not recognize the Independence before 1668. Change of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire f ...

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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. 3114 BC - On this date in the proleptic Gregorian calendar begins our current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar. 480 BC - Persians under Xerxes defeat Spartans under King Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae. The Spartans fought to the last man. 480 BC - The Persian and Greek fleets also fight the indecisive Battle ...

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1536 - Events. February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. February 25 - Jacob Hutter burned at the stake for heresy May 19 - Execution of Anne Boleyn May 30 - Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour October 13 - The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in York, is "resolved" by Robert Aske October 29 - Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIIIs dissolution of ...

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Oda Nobunaga - Young Nobunaga. In 1534, Nobunaga was born to regional daimyo Oda Nobuhide in the Shobata Castle. He was Nobuhide's third son; however, he was the first son not born to a concubine and so was the heir to the Oda clan and domain in the Owari province. He was made the master of Nagoya Castle at a young age, and was brought up under the tutelage of senior Oda retainer, Hirate Masahide, apart from his brother Nobuyuki. As a youth, Nobunaga was known for his eccentric behaviour and lack of restraint. He was even called the "Owari ...

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