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The 1560s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1569 BC to December 31, 1560 BC. BC.
October 10 – Lucrezia Di Siena, the first well-known female actress in Europe, begins her career by signing a contract with the Commedia dell'arte theatre company in Rome. October 23 – King Bayinnaung of Burma leads 64,000 men, 3,600 horses and 330 elephants on an invasion of the Lan Na kingdom (now part of Laos.
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The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC . The Parthenon in Athens, a symbol of Ancient Greece and Western Philosophy. This century saw the establishment of Pataliputra as a capital of the Magadha Empire. This city would later become the ruling capital of different Indian kingdoms for about a thousand ...
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The Peace of Etaples(1492) marks, for some, the beginning of the early modern period in France. After the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453), France supported the Lancastrian side in The Wars of the Roses. France and England signed the Treaty of Picquigny in 1475 — the official end date of the Hundred Years' War. In 1492 and 1493, after supporting the ...
Despite the beginnings of rapid demographic and economic recovery after the Black Death of the 14th century, the gains of the previous half-century were to be jeopardised by a further protracted series of conflicts, the Italian Wars (1494–1559), where French efforts to gain dominance ended in the increased power of the HabsburgHoly Roman Emperors o...
Barely were the Italian Wars over, when France was plunged into a domestic crisis with far-reaching consequences. Despite the conclusion of a Concordat between France and the Papacy (1516), granting the crown unrivalled power in senior ecclesiastical appointments, France was deeply affected by the Protestant Reformation's attempt to break the unity...
France's pacification under Henry IV laid much of the ground for the beginnings of France's rise to European hegemony. One of the most admired French kings, Henry was fatally stabbed by a Catholic fanatic in 1610 as war with Spain threatened. Troubles gradually developed during the regency headed by his queen Marie de Medici. France was expansive d...
Valois(1328–1498) 1. Louis XI 2. Charles VIII After Charles VIII the Affable, the last king in the direct Valois line, three other branches of the House of Capet reigned in France until the fall of the Ancien Régimein 1792: Valois-Orléans(1498–1515) 1. Louis XII Valois-Angoulême(1515–1589) 1. Francis I 2. Henry II and Catherine de' Medici 3. Franci...
1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time. [2] 1500 BC: Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated pottery, megalithic burials, and millet-bean-rice agriculture indicate the beginning of the Mumun Pottery Period on the Korean peninsula. [3]
阴土羊年. (female Earth- Goat) 1686 or 1305 or 533. — to —. 阳金猴年. (male Iron- Monkey) 1687 or 1306 or 534. Tulips arrive in the Netherlands. Year 1560 ( MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events. July 6 – Treaty of Edinburgh; Births. Anton Praetorius, fighter against torture and chase of witches (d. 1613); August 7– Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian murderer; November 28– Baltasar of Marradas, Spanish noblemanbleman, knight of the Knights of Malta, imperial field marshal, governor in Bohemia (d.
