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20 de may. de 2024 · The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the Yucatán Peninsula, a vast limestone plain covering south-eastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and all of Belize.
Hace 6 días · Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. 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.
Hace 3 días · Francis Xavier, SJ (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: Franciscus Xaverius; Basque: Frantzisko Xabierkoa; French: François Xavier; Spanish: Francisco Javier; Portuguese: Francisco Xavier; 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552), venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Basque Spaniard [3] [4] Catholic missionary and saint who ...
20 de may. de 2024 · William Gilbert, pioneer researcher into magnetism who became the most distinguished man of science in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. As the first to use the terms electric attraction, electric force, and magnetic pole, he is often considered the father of electrical studies.
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9 de may. de 2024 · The Myth of ‘Bloody Mary,’ England’s First Queen. History remembers Mary I as a murderous monster who burned hundreds of her subjects at the stake, but the real story of the Tudor monarch is far...
3 de may. de 2024 · Richard Bancroft was the 74th archbishop of Canterbury (1604–10), notable for his stringent opposition to Puritanism, his defense of ecclesiastical hierarchy and tradition, and his efforts to ensure doctrinal and liturgical conformity among the clergy of the Church of England. He also played a.
Hace 5 días · David Beaton was a Scottish cardinal and statesman who promoted a close alliance between Scotland and France and who was an implacable opponent of the Scottish Reformation. Beaton became archbishop of St. Andrews in 1539 and papal legate in Scotland in 1544. Beginning his political career in 1529,
