Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English astrologer, philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death. He began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scien ...

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The precise chronology of Shakespeare's plays as they were first written and performed is difficult to determine, as there is no authoritative record and many of the plays were performed many years before they were published. Pirated editions are the first printed versions of several plays, but many of Shakespeare's works remained unpublished until the First Folio (1623). There is no play mentioned as Shakespeare's by his contemporaries that we do not have, except Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won. Sha ...

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Bourtange is a Dutch star fort and village in the Westerwolde region of the province of Groningen. The fortifications were initially built during the Eighty Years' War when William of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen which was controlled by the Spaniards. This road follows a sandy ridge (tange) through the marshes. Later, around 1594, Bourtange became part of the fortifications on the border between the northern provinces (Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe) and Germany. In 1851 the fort was ...

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A fetus (also foetus) is a developing mammal after the embryonic stage and before birth. The plural is fetuses or foetuses, or, very rarely, foeti. In humans, a fetus develops from the end of the 8th week of pregnancy (when the major structures have formed), until birth. Fetus, in Latin, literally means "offspring". When speaking in the most literal of terms, a fetus is an organism, as yet undeveloped, in the process of becoming a functional individual of a species. Fetus - Fetal ...

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The Bridgettine or Briggittine order. A monastic religious order of Augustinian canonesses founded by Saint Birgitta (Saint Bridget) of Sweden approximately 1350, and approved by Pope Urban V in 1370. The Bridgettine order was open to both men and women, and was dedicated to devotion to the passion of Jesus. It was a ”double order” each convent having attached to it a small community of canons to act as chaplains, but under the government of the abbess. The order spread widely in Sweden and Norway, and played a remar ...

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Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1543 in Safed-6 May 1620 in Damascus) was one of the most famous exponents of Kabbalah. As a young boy, Vital was educated by the scholar, Rabbi Moses Alshech. Other than that, most of his early life is full of legends. For instance, it is claimed that at the age of twelve, he was told by a chiromancer that when he reached the age of twenty-four, he would find himself standing before two roads, and would rise or fall according to his choice. Joseph Caro is said to have paid especial attention to Vital's ...

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Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (Arras, February 19, 1526 - Leiden April 4, 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was the Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists. He studied at Montpellier with the famous medical professor Guillaume Rondelet, though he never practiced medicine. In 1573 he was appointed prefect of the imperial medical garden in Vienna by Maximilian II and made Gentleman of the Imperial Chamber, but he was discharged fro ...

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Charles IX (Karl IX) (October 4, 1550 – October 30, 1611), was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of Gustav Vasa and Margareta Leijonhufvud. By his father's will he got, by way of appanage, the Duchy of Södermanland, which included the provinces of Närke and Värmland; but he did not come into actual possession of them till after the fall of Eric XIV of Sweden in 1569. Charles IX of Sweden - Duke Charles. In 1568 he was the real leader of the rebellion against Eric, ...

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Belgrade (listen ▶ (help·info)), is the capital of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–Present). It is one of the oldest cities in Europe settled in the 3rd century BC by the Celts before becoming the Roman settlement of Singidunum. The name Beograd (Belgrade) has been first mentioned back in year 878. It has been the capital of Serbia sinc ...

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English astrologer, philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death. He began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scien ...

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1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1590 1591 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599 1590s - Events. 1590 March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne. May - August - Unsuccessful siege of Paris by Henry IV of France. Henry is forced to raise the siege when the Duke of Parma comes to its relief with a Spanish army. May 17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of S ...

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1558 - Events. January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. April 24 - Mary I of Scotland marries Francis II of France November 17 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth. Tobacco comes to Fr ...

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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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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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1661 - Events. January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. George Monck's regiment defeats them February 5 - The Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China dies and is succeeded by his son the Kangxi Emperor. February 14 - George Monck’s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards (which later becomes Coldstream Guards) April 23 - King Charles II of England, Scotland, Ireland crowned in Westminster ...

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1654 - Events. April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. June 3 - Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims June 6 - Charles X succedes his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism. September 3 - In the Rump Parliament, the republican party questions Cromwell's pre-eminence September 12 - Oliver Cromwell orders ...

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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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1532 - Events. May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably. September 1 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England. November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa. Atahualpa wins Inca civil war over Huáscar The Prince is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavel ...

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1518 - Events. A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola. 1518 - Births. April 22 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (died 1610) James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (died 1589) Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (died 1581) Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (died 1585) Tintoretto, Italian painter (died 1594) 1518 - Deaths. Aug ...

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1512 - Events. April 11 - Battle of Ravenna. French forces under Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours defeat the Spanish under Raymond of Cardona, but Gaston is killed in the pursuit. October 19 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology [Doctor in Biblia]. October 21 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg November 1 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time. ...

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1519 - Events. March 4 - Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico. June 28 - Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556). July 4 - Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority against John Eck at Leipzig. September 20 - Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world. November 8 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a retur ...

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