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Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1578–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. [1] He was referred to as a štrigon, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock. [2] He was a stonemason and his wife Ivana ...
The Lettres provinciales ( Provincial letters) are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. Written in the midst of the formulary controversy between the Jansenists and the Jesuits, they are a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld from Port-Royal-des-Champs ...
The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem was a landscape painting that Largillière painted in 1720. Largillière made his last self-portrait in 1725. This portrait displays the artist at his easel staring toward the audience. Largillière was appointed as chancellor of the French Academy in 1743.
1656 ( MDCLVI) byl rok, který dle gregoriánského kalendáře započal sobotou . Podle židovského kalendáře došlo k přelomu let 5416 a 5417. Podle islámského kalendáře započal dne 20. října rok 1067.
Daniel Auber. Hector Berlioz. Georges Bizet. Pierre Boulez. Eryck Abecassis (born 1956) Jean-Baptiste Accolay (1833–1900) Frédéric Acquaviva (born 1967) Adolphe Adam (1803–1856) François d'Agincourt (1684–1758)
The Treaty of Königsberg was concluded on 7 January ( O.S.) / 17 January ( N.S.) 1656 during the Second Northern War. [1] Frederick William I, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia, was forced to join the Swedish camp and became a Swedish vassal for the Duchy of Prussia and Ermland (Ermeland, Warmia). [2]
Governor of Guernsey. Member of Parliament. General Charles Churchill (2 February 1656 – 29 December 1714) was a British Army officer who served during the War of the Spanish Succession and an English politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 to 1710. He was a younger brother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of ...
