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October–December. October 6 – In Córdoba, in the Spanish kingdom of Andalusia, members of the nobility and the general public revolt against the Spanish inquisitor Diego Rodriguez de Lucero and General Inquisitor Diego de Deza. The mob liberates the people incarcerated at the Córdoba prison. October 7 – Pope Julius II issues a bull ...
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 550 Madison Avenue is a postmodern skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th Street and 56th Street in New York City. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee with associate architect Simmons Architects, the building was completed in 1984. It is a 647-foot-tall (197-meter), 37-story office tower ...
The Lisbon massacre started on Sunday, 19 April 1506 in Lisbon when a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The violence escalated into a city-wide, anti-semitic riot that killed as many as 4,000 "new Christians" ( cristãos-novos ), the name for Jews who had been forcibly ...
1506. 1506 ( MDVI ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1506th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 506th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1500s decade. As of the start of 1506, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian ...
Christopher Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and European colonization of the Americas.
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Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis. First page of the 1892 edition. Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis is an early modern work on cosmography and Atlantic exploration written by the Portuguese geographer and navigator Duarte Pacheco Pereira . It was dedicated to King Manuel I of Portugal (1495–1521). The work was divided into five parts with a total of fifty nine ...
