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May 3, 2024 · Bartolomeu Dias (c.1450–1500) is known as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, finding the eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean. Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Famous Italian explorer and arguably the best-known explorer that ever lived.
Apr 27, 2024 · Ps.-Moschus, Megara [11] [51] 1496 [21] [52] Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica [22] Laurentius de Alopa [21] Florence [21] Edited by Janus Lascaris. Present in the book are also the so-called Florentine scholia, contained in the manuscript used by Lascaris for this edition.
6 days ago · Pope Julius II ( Latin: Iulius II; Italian: Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 1443 – 21 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death, in February 1513. Nicknamed the Warrior Pope, Battle Pope or the Fearsome Pope, he chose his papal name not in honour of Pope Julius I but ...
- 15 December 1471, by Sixtus IV
- 21 February 1513
- 1 November 1503
- Leo X
May 1, 2024 · Sir Thomas Abney, sheriff of London in 1694 This is a list of sheriffs of the City of London. Pursuant to a royal charter of Henry I c. 1131, the liverymen of the City elected two sheriffs of "London and Middlesex" upon payment of £300 per annum to the Crown. This practice continued until 1889, when the Local Government Act 1888 came into force. Thereafter a High Sheriff of Middlesex and a ...
16 hours ago · Crusading movement. The church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This is a site of Christian pilgrimage built where Christian Roman authorities pinpointed the purported location of Jesus' burial and resurrection in Jerusalem in 325. [1] One of the objectives of the Crusades was to free the Holy Sepulchre from Muslim control.
Apr 30, 2024 · Thomas Audley, Baron Audley (born 1488, Earls Colne, Essex, England—died April 30, 1544, London) was the lord chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544, who helped King Henry VIII break with the papacy and establish himself as head of the English church. Historians have viewed him as an unprincipled politician completely subservient to Henry ...
1 day ago · Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow. The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians.
