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5 days ago · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55. Thursday, 27 July 2023. By Vincenzo De Meulenaere.
The Regency of Algiers was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire that existed between 1516 and 1830. Algiers, along with Tunis and Tripoli, were known in Europe as the Barbary States. In Ottoman terminology these areas were called Garb Ocakları (western garrisons). founded by the corsair brothers Aruj and Khayr ad-Din ...
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5 days ago · King Edward I. and Queen Eleanor heaped many gifts on these sable friars. Charles V. of France was lodged at their monastery when he visited England, but his nobles resided in Henry's newly-built palace of Bridewell, a gallery being thrown over the Fleet and driven through the City wall, to serve as a communication between the two mansions.
5 days ago · Fifth Republic, system of government in France from 1958. Under the constitution crafted by Charles de Gaulle with the help of Michel Debre, executive power was increased at the expense of the National Assembly.
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3 days ago · HENRY VIII. and CHARLES V. Heads of a treaty between Charles V. and Henry VIII., to the effect that they will make no treaty with the king of France for any closer matrimonial alliance than exists at present; that deputies from both sides shall meet at Calais to arrange the mutual relations of the two kingdoms; and an ambassador in ordinary ...
2 days ago · Friday, 22 July 2022. By Hugh Dow. Woodcut of Tyndale's execution in Vilvoorde, Belgium. It is a source of wonder that the two soaring geniuses who created Early Modern English both came from small towns near the Welsh border, both were called William, and both wrote with such effortless beauty that they forged English into a tongue to compete ...
2 days ago · The Pope tells him that the French king wishes to marry the sister of the prince of Navarre to the Scotch king. Has just received the Emperor's letter of 31 May, by Rodrigo Davalos. Approves of his coming. The Pope told him that the kings of England and Scotland were friendly. Rome, 16 June 1533. Sp., pp. 8.
