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3 giorni fa · 16th century. 16th century: Chintz or printed clothing in Golconda, India; 16th century: Hookah by Irfan Shaikh, at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar I (1542–1605). 1560: Floating Dry Dock in Venice, Venetian Republic; 1569: Mercator Projection map created by Gerardus Mercator; 1589: Stocking frame: Invented by William Lee.
3 mag 2024 · The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity in Western and ...
1 giorno fa · Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504) The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the ...
2 giorni fa · In the 16th century, perhaps 240,000 Spaniards entered American ports. They were joined by 450,000 in the next century. [104] Unlike the English-speaking colonists of North America , the majority of the Spanish colonists were single men who married or made concubines of the natives, [ citation needed ] and were even encouraged to do so by Queen Isabella I during the earliest days of colonization.
3 giorni fa · The last significant depreciation in sterling's silver standard occurred amidst the 16th century influx of precious metals from the Americas arriving through the Habsburg Netherlands. Enforcement of monetary standards amongst its constituent provinces was loose, spending under King Henry VIII was extravagant, and England loosened the importation of cheaper continental coins for exchange into ...
3 giorni fa · By the last decade of the 16th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the most preeminent daimyō, had unified all of Japan in a brief period of peace. Since he came to hold power in the absence of a legitimate successor of the Minamoto lineage necessary for the imperial shōgun commission, he sought military power to legitimize his rule and to decrease his dependence on the imperial family. [63]
3 giorni fa · 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. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in Lepanto (the Venetian name ...
