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Hace 15 horas · King Henry II showed himself to be an audacious and daring king as well as being active and mobile; Roger of Howden stated that Henry travelled across his dominions so fast that Louis VII once exclaimed that "The king of England is now in Ireland, now in England, now in Normandy, he seems rather to fly than to go by horse or ship."
- Roman Catholicism (official)
Hace 15 horas · t. e. The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...
Hace 15 horas · King Henry decided to remove the Church of England from the authority of Rome. In 1534, the Act of Supremacy recognized Henry as the only Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England . Between 1535 and 1540, under Thomas Cromwell , the policy known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries was put into effect.
Hace 15 horas · Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity and formerly St Peter's Abbey, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated with the establishment of a minster, Gloucester Abbey, dedicated to Saint Peter and founded by Osric, King of the Hwicce ...
- 23 January 1952
- England
- 225 ft (69 m)
Hace 15 horas · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
Hace 15 horas · Antiquity Greco-Roman world Further information: List of Greek historiographers, Greek historiography, and Roman historiography Classical period Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories, which established Western historiography Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponnesian War Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates Ctesias (early 4th ...
Hace 15 horas · Henry James (1843–1916) confronted the Old World-New World dilemma by writing directly about it. Although he was born in New York City, James spent most of his adult life in England. Many of his novels center on Americans who live in or travel to Europe.
