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3 giorni fa · Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and third circumnavigation overall.
1 giorno fa · Voce principale: Livorno. Statua di Ferdinando I, ritenuto l'artefice dello sviluppo della città. La storia di Livorno, se confrontata con quelle delle altre città toscane, è sicuramente tra le più originali nel panorama regionale, in quanto slegata da uno sviluppo medievale che è comune alla maggior parte degli altri centri. [1]
4 giorni fa · Adolf van Nieuwenaar, Stadtholder (1584–1589) Maurice, Stadtholder (1590–1625) County of Holland, Lordship of Utrecht, County of Zeeland ( complete list) –. For the preceding rulers, look under the List of state leaders in the 16th-century Holy Roman Empire.
4 giorni fa · Battle of Lepanto. Coordinates: 38°15′N 21°15′E. The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.
5 giorni fa · Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warr (born July 9, 1577—died June 7, 1618, at sea off the coast of Virginia or New England) was one of the English founders of Virginia, for whom Delaware Bay, the Delaware River, and the state of Delaware were named.
1 giorno fa · "Aruj effectively began the powerful greatness of Algiers and the Barbary", wrote Fray Diego de Haedo , a Spanish Benedictine from Sicily who was held captive in Algiers in 1577-1580. Algiers underwent numerous political developpements with the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from strength and expansion to weakness and ...
3 giorni fa · A survey in 1577 of drinking establishment in England and Wales for taxation purposes recorded 14,202 alehouses, 1,631 inns, and 329 taverns, representing one pub for every 187 people. Inns
