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13 hours ago · The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-i-chee, Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici, during the first half of the 15th century.
- By Medico, Castellan of Potrone, considered the first ancestor of the house
- 1230; 793 years ago
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13 hours ago · Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
- 1882–1922
- British Army
13 hours ago · Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV and the third son of the Duke of Burgundy (1682–1712), and his wife Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, who was the eldest daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy.
- 1 September 1715 – 10 May 1774
- Marie Adélaïde of Savoy
13 hours ago · Charles brought his Holy Roman Empire into war with France in 1521; Henry offered to mediate, but little was achieved and by the end of the year Henry had aligned England with Charles. He still clung to his previous aim of restoring English lands in France, but also sought to secure an alliance with Burgundy , then part of Charles' realm, and ...
13 hours ago · He also points to several pieces by Henry Purcell, one of which includes the opening notes of the modern tune, setting the words "God Save the King". Nineteenth-century scholars and commentators mention the widespread belief that an old Scots carol, "Remember O Thou Man", was the source of the tune.
- September 1745; 278 years ago
- God Save the Queen, (when the UK monarch is female)
- Unknown
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