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6 days ago · Philip II, king of Spain (1556–98) and Portugal (1580–98) who was a champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. During his reign the Spanish empire attained its greatest power, extent, and influence, though he lost the ‘Invincible Armada’ in the attempted invasion of England (1588).
- Charles V
Charles V spent his reign trying to maintain the integrity...
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Philip II, Spanish Felipe, (born May 21, 1527, Valladolid,...
- Philip I
Philip I (born July 22, 1478, Bruges—died Sept. 25, 1506,...
- Ferdinand I
Ferdinand I (born March 10, 1503, Alcalá de Henares,...
- Henry II
Henry II (born March 31, 1519, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near...
- Charles V
2 days ago · In 1565 the Ottomans sent a large expedition to Malta, which laid siege to several forts on the island, taking some of them. The Spanish sent a relief force, which finally drove the Ottoman army out of the island.
- 16 January 1556 – 13 September 1598
- Isabella of Portugal
3 days ago · 12-62500 [4] GNIS feature ID. 0308101 [3] Website. City of St. Augustine. St. Augustine ( / ˈɔːɡəstiːn / AW-gə-steen; Spanish: San Agustín [san aɣusˈtin]) is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County located 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Jacksonville. The city is on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.
1 day ago · In 1565, the Spanish, led by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, established St. Augustine in Florida. Subsequently, they launched an attack on Fort Caroline in French Florida , resulting in the massacre of 142 French Huguenots.
May 2, 2024 · Henry Hudson (born c. 1565, England—died after June 22, 1611, in or near Hudson Bay?) was an English navigator and explorer who, sailing three times for the English (1607, 1608, 1610–11) and once for the Dutch (1609), tried to discover a short route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean, in both the Old World and the New.
2 days ago · Elizabeth: June 1565, 16-30. Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth, Volume 7, 1564-1565. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1870. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Apr 25, 2024 · Li Zhizao (born 1565, Hangzhou, China—died November 1, 1630, Beijing) was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose translations of European scientific books greatly contributed to the spread of Western science in China.
