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12 ore fa · Christian IX of Denmark (April 8, 1818 – January 29, 1906) ruled Denmark from 1863 to 1906. Known as the "father-in-law of Europe", [1] he and his wife, Louise of Hesse-Kassel (September 7, 1817 – September 29, 1898), became the ancestors of many members of European royalty. Some of these descendants would play a role in the history of ...
1 giorno fa · Terminology The International Monument to the Reformation, a statue erected in Geneva in 1909 depicting William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, four leaders of the Reformed tradition of Protestantism In the 16th-century context, the term mainly covers four major movements: Lutheranism, Calvinism, the Radical Reformation, and the Catholic Reformation. Historian John Bossy ...
12 ore fa · Anna of Saxony. Louis II of Hesse ( German: Ludwig) (7 September 1438 – 8 November 1471), called Louis the Frank, was the Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1458 - 1471. He was the son of Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse and Anna of Saxony. He married Mechthild, daughter of Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach in 1454. Their children were:
3 giorni fa · May 26, 2024. John Jacob Astor IV was an American millionaire businessman and real estate developer who perished aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912. As the richest passenger on the ill-fated ship and head of one of America‘s most storied dynasties, Astor‘s life and death came to embody the opulence and tragedy of the Gilded Age.
12 ore fa · Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( Anchiano, 15 aprile 1452 – Amboise, 2 maggio 1519) è stato uno scienziato, inventore e artista italiano . Firma di Leonardo da Vinci del 1507. Uomo d'ingegno e talento universale [1] del Rinascimento, considerato uno dei più grandi geni dell'umanità, [2] [3] incarnò in pieno lo spirito della sua epoca ...
5 giorni fa · The abbey of Rievaulx, the earliest Cistercian monastery in the county, was founded in 1131 by Walter Espec, (fn. 1) who gave to certain of the monks sent to England about 1128 by St. Bernard from Citeaux land near Helmsley, in the valley of the Rye, on the north side of which the monastery was built. From its position it received the name of ...
5 giorni fa · Covers the first nineteen years of the reign of Edward I. Inquisitions Post Mortem.Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.
