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4 days ago · In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries (about 1500–1800). In a European context, it is defined as the period following the Middle Ages and preceding the advent of modernity, sometimes defined as the "late modern period". In the context of global history, the early modern period is ...
4 days ago · 1480s: Mariner's astrolabe in Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa; Early modern era 16th century. 16th century: Chintz or printed clothing in Golconda, India; 16th century: Hookah by Irfan Shaikh, at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar I (1542–1605). 1560: Floating Dry Dock in Venice, Venetian Republic
2 days ago · 1950s. 1959 in art – Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein. 1958 in art – Frank Stella begins black pinstripe paintings; Birth of Brian O'Connor (artist) and Don Yeomans. 1957 in art – Death of David Bomberg, Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats; Birth of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.
2 days ago · Throughout the 15th century the Irish trade dominated the port, and until the 1480s, when numbers of local vessels increased, most of the ships involved were themselves Irish. The main ports from which they came were within the Pale: Dublin, Howth, Malahide, Rush, and Drogheda. Commodities exported from Ireland included sea fish and salmon from ...
3 days ago · The small hundred of Crewkerne is a compact area on the southern boundary of the county at the eastern end of the Windwhistle ridge with a complex geological structure. Its irregular and often dramatic landscape has much in common with north Dorset, from which it was originally divided by the river Axe.
1 day ago · Henry VII. London, Routledge, 2007, ISBN: 9780415266208; 336pp.; Price: £45.00. A new book on Henry VII is a major event. The last full-length study of the king and his reign, by S. B. Chrimes, was written in 1972, in a very different historiographical world. At that time, the explosion of interest in later-medieval history was still in its ...
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