Risultati di ricerca
4 giorni fa · Bartolomeu Dias (born c. 1450—died May 29, 1500, at sea, near Cape of Good Hope) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
- Portuguese General
In Southern Africa: The Portuguese in west-central Africa...
- St. Blaise
Begun in the 16th century, the blessing of St. Blaise is a...
- Student Encyclopedia
On the return voyage he charted the southern waters, and in...
- Kids
Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal was one of the most important...
- Portuguese General
6 giorni fa · Historical sources. Statue of Peter Waldo at the Luther Monument in Worms. Most modern knowledge of the medieval history of the Waldensians originates almost exclusively from the records and writings of the Roman Catholic Church, the same body that was condemning them as heretics.
1 giorno fa · Isabella I ( Spanish: Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), [2] also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica ), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II. Reigning together over a dynastically unified Spain ...
21 mag 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.
22 mag 2024 · Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan (1481–1512) who consolidated Ottoman rule in the Balkans, Anatolia, and the eastern Mediterranean and was the first Ottoman sultan challenged by the Safavid empire. Under pressure from his advisers and Janissary corps amid a succession crisis, he abdicated in 1512 in favor of his son Selim.
19 mag 2024 · Sebastian Münster (born Jan. 20, 1488, Ingelheim, electorate of Mainz [Germany]—died May 23, 1552, Basel, Switz.) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar whose Cosmographia (1544; “Cosmography”) was the earliest German description of the world and a major work in the revival of geographic thought in 16th ...
6 mag 2024 · It is a central tenet of Hungarian historiography that St Stephen, inheriting rulership from his father upon the latter’s death (997), was challenged by an older pagan relative (perhaps an uncle), Cupan (rendered in modern Hungarian as Koppány 1), duke of Somogy, who wanted to take power based on the principle of seniority, and further tried to reinforce that claim by demanding to marry ...
