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  1. Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great ( German: Otto der Große Italian: Ottone il Grande ), or Otto of Saxony ( German: Otto von Sachsen Italian: Ottone di Sassonia ), was East Frankish king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. [b] He was the eldest son of Henry the Fowler and ...

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    The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses ( / wɔːlˈdɛnsiːz, wɒl -/ ), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation. Originally known as the Poor of Lyon in the late twelfth century, [1] [2] [3] the movement spread to the Cottian Alps ...

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  3. Jan 26, 1996 · England, India, and The East Indies, 1617 [At Indian History Sourcebook] Various sources, including a letter from Great Moghul Jahangir to James I, King of England. The East India Trade [At Copenhagen] Charles D'Avenant: An Essay on the East-India Trade, 1697 [At Yale] East Asia.

  4. Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized names Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius (1556 – 6 May 1629), was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He is known for his paintings of religious and mythological scenes, allegories and portraits, which he produced in ...

  5. May 5, 2009 · Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and ...

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 1030s1030s - Wikipedia

    Europe. March 23 – The Battle of Cesar, took place near the village of Cesar between the armies of Bermudo III, King of León, and the Moorish armies of Abu'l-Qasim, the emir of the Taifa of Seville. c. July 3 – 8-year-old William I becomes duke of Normandy after his father Robert I ("the Magnificent") dies on a pilgrimage at Nicaea (modern ...

  8. 3 days ago · o o Local powers didn’t react much, but the King of Spain was enraged and sent armed forces to qualm the masses o The Duke of Alva was sent in the spring of 1567, and established a council and began to rule the provinces with an iron fist, advised by a Catholic cardinal o People were tortured until they confessed to their roles in unrest, then put to death, the Counts of Egmont, the ...