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1616 - Events. October 25 — Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast Pocahontas arrives in England War between Venice and Austria Collegium Musicum founded in Prague Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church 1616 - Births. January 13 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemis ...

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The number of people living in Cornwall considering themselves primarily Cornish rather than English or British is unknown. Many in Cornwall consider themselves primarily British and then Cornish and use the term British to describe themselves. However many others use Cornish as a description of their ethnic/national identity and this is a phenomenon with a long historical precedent. Many indigenous Cornish also consider themselves to be English. The question of different ethnic groups in the white population of the British Isles is d ...

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Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish nobleman astrologer and astronomer as well as an alchemist. He was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model o ...

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• Tycho Brahe - Nova
• Tycho Brahe - Heliocentrism
• Tycho Brahe - Uraniborg Stjerneborg and Benátky nad Jizerou
• Tycho Brahe - Tycho and astronomy
• Tycho Brahe - Tycho and Astrology
• Tycho Brahe - Tycho's moose
• Tycho Brahe - Tycho's death
• Tycho Brahe - Named after Tycho

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William Harvey (1578–1657) was a medical doctor who is credited with first correctly describing, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. This developed the ideas of René Descartes who in his Description of the Human Body said that the arteries and veins were pipes and carried nourishment round the body. Many believe he discovered and extended early Muslim medicine especially the work of Ibn Nafis, who had laid out the principles and major arteries and veins in the 13th century. ...

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• William Harvey - New circulatory model
• William Harvey - Embryology
• William Harvey - Criticism of Harvey's Work
• William Harvey - Honours
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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Polish: O obrotach sfer niebieskich) is the seminal work on heliocentric theory and the masterpiece of the great Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. The book set out to offer an alternative model of the universe to the Ptolemaic system. Copernicus began to write it in 1506 and finishe ...

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The Confessio Fraternitatis (Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz), or simply The Confessio, printed in Kassel (Germany) in 1615, is the second anonymous manifestos, of a trio of Rosicrucian pamphlets, declaring the existence of a secret brotherhood of alchemists and sages who were thought to be preparing to transform the political and intellectual landscape of Europe. The Confessio is a breviary about «the true Philosophy», it completes the earlier manifesto (Fama Fraternit ...

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William Adams (September 24, 1564–May 16, 1620), also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama (按針様: anjin, "pilot"; sama, a Japanese social title) and Miura Anjin (三浦按針: "the pilot of Miura"), was an English navigator who went to Japan, and is believed to be the first Briton ever to reach Japan. William Adams - Early life. William Adams was born at Gillingham, in Kent, England. After losing his father at the age of 12, he was apprenticed to shipyard owner Master Nicholas ...

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• William Adams - Expedition to the Far East
• William Adams - Arrival in Japan
• William Adams - Japan's first western-style sailing ships
• William Adams - The first foreign samurai
• William Adams - Contacts with the Dutch East India Company
• William Adams - Religious rivalries
• William Adams - Establishment of an English trading factory
• William Adams - Character
• William Adams - Participation in Asian trade
• William Adams - 1614 Siam expedition
• William Adams - 1615 Siam expedition
• William Adams - 1617 Cochinchina expedition
• William Adams - 1618 Cochinchina expedition
• William Adams - Adams's legacy
• William Adams - Famous William Adams quotes
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The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459), ISBN 0933999356, was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681), and its anonymous authorship is attributed to Johann Valentin Andreae. It is the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians). It is an amazing allegoric romance (story) divided in Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and tells us about the way Christian Rosenkreuz was invited t ...

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The "Chandos" portrait is one of the most famous portraits believed to depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The portrait is named for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, who owned the portrait. The portrait has been in the National Portrait Gallery, London since 1856. It has not been possible to solve the question of who painted the portrait and whether it really depicts Shakespeare, whose other known contemporary image is the crude engraving in the posthumous First Folio (1623), made by Martin Droeshout, who had never see ...

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Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai, Jagatai), a son of Genghis Khan (1206—1227), controlled the part of the Mongol Empire which extended from the Ili river (eastern Kazakhstan) and Kashgaria (western Tarim Basin) to Transoxiana. He inherited most of what are now the five Central Asian states and northern Iran after the death of his father which he ruled until his death in 1242. The Empire later came to be known as the Chagatai Khanate, part of the Mongol Empire. These te ...

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• Chagatai Khanate - The Chagatai Khanate after Chagatai
• Chagatai Khanate - Tughlugh Timur and Tamerlane
• Chagatai Khanate - Successors of the Chagataites

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Charles I (19 November 1600–30 January 1649) was King of Scotland, England and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his execution. He famously engaged in a struggle for power with Parliament; he was an advocate of the divine right of kings. Many in England therefore feared that he was attempting to gain absolute power. There was widespread opposition to many of his actions, especially the levying of taxes without Parliament's consent. This is one of the many mani ...

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• Charles I of England - Trial and execution
• Charles I of England - Legacy
• Charles I of England - Style and arms
• Charles I of England - Issue
• Charles I of England - In modern culture

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Yonten Gyatso was the 4th Dalai Lama, (1589 – 1616). As a descendant of the people of Mongolia, he was the only non-Tibetan to be recognized as Dalai Lama, and that after extended debate among his contemporaries. He was a contempory and student of the First Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyeltsen. Other related archives1589, 1616, Dalai Lama, Mongolia

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The Champs-Elysées (pronounced /ʃɑ̃zelize/ audio ▶ (help·info) literally the "Elysian fields") is a broad avenue in the French capital Paris. Its full name is actually 'Avenue des Champs Elysées'. With its cinemas, cafés, and luxury specialty shops, the Champs-Elysées is one of the most famous streets in the world. The name refers to the Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed in Greek mythology (i ...

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World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Day) is a yearly event organised by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The Day was first celebrated in 1995. World Book and Copyright day is celebrated on April 23. This date was chosen as a symbolic date for world literature for it was on this date in 1616 that three luminaries of world literature all died: Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garci ...

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Cape Horn is often said to be the southernmost point of South America. Cape Horn is located at 55°59′00″S, 067°16′00″W. Cape Horn is located in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago and is itself an island. (The southernmost point on the mainland is Cape Froward.) The cape was first rounded by a European on January 26, 1616, by the Dutch expedition of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire. They named it Kaap Hoorn after the city of Hoorn, S ...

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Benjamin Jonson (June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is best known for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist, his lyrics, his influence on Jacobean and Caroline poets, his theory of humours, his contentious personality, and his friendship and rivalry with William Shakespeare. Ben Jonson - Biography. Ben Jonson - Early life. Although he was born in Westminster, Jonson claimed his family was of Border descent, and ...

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• Ben Jonson - Decline and death
• Ben Jonson - Relationship with Shakespeare
• Ben Jonson - Reputation
• Ben Jonson - Jonson's works
• Ben Jonson - Plays
• Ben Jonson - Masques
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William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright. Shakespeare is considered by many to be the greatest writer in the English language, as well as one of the greatest in Western literature, and the world's preeminent dramatist. Shakespeare is believed to have produced most of his work between 1586 and 1616, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are often uncertain. He is counted among the very few playwrights who have excelled in both tragedy and comedy, and his plays combine popular appeal with complex ...

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• William Shakespeare - Sonnets
• William Shakespeare - Other poems
• William Shakespeare - Style
• William Shakespeare - Reputation
• William Shakespeare - Speculations about Shakespeare
• William Shakespeare - Identity
• William Shakespeare - Religion
• William Shakespeare - Sexuality
• William Shakespeare - Bibliography
• William Shakespeare - Comedies
• William Shakespeare - Histories
• William Shakespeare - Tragedies
• William Shakespeare - Lost plays
• William Shakespeare - Poems
• William Shakespeare - Apocrypha
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The Rosicrucian Order is a legendary and secretive Order dating from the 15th or 17th century. It generally is associated with the symbol of the Rose Cross, which is also found in certain rituals beyond "Craft" or "Blue Lodge" Freemasonry. The Rosicrucian Order is viewed among earlier and many modern Rosicrucianists as an inner worlds Order, comprised of great "Adepts." When compared to human beings, the consciousness of these Adepts is like that of demi-gods. This "College of Invisibles" is regarded as the source permanently b ...

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• Rosicrucian - Influence on Freemasonry
• Rosicrucian - Rose Cross: Alchemy and Divine Sciences of Healing & of the Stars
• Rosicrucian - The Manifestos
• Rosicrucian - Modern groups
• Rosicrucian - Esoteric Christianity groups vs. Para-Masonic groups
• Rosicrucian - List of 'Para-Masonic' groups
• Rosicrucian - List of 'Esoteric Christianity' groups
• Rosicrucian - Reference literature

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. See also: 16th century in literature 16th century - Events. 1501: Safavid dynasty rules Iran until 1736. 1503: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later. 1509: The Battle of Diu marks the beginning of Portuguese dominance of the Spice trade. 1514: The Battle of Orsha halts Muscovy's expansion into ...

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar. 17th century - Events. 1601: Battle of Kinsale, the most important battle in Irish history, fought. 1602: Dutch East India Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age. 1603: Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyas ...

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