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Hace 17 horas · 1470 – Cape Palmas is passed. [3] 1472 – Fernão do Pó lands on the island of Bioko. [4] 1473 – Lopo Gonçalves is the first European sailor to cross the Equator. [3] [4] 1474–75 – Ruy de Sequeira discovers São Tomé and Príncipe. [4] 1482 – Diogo Cão reaches the Congo River, where he erects a padrão ("pillar of stone").
Hace 17 horas · t. e. England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
Hace 17 horas · Erasmus also became fast friends with Thomas More, a young law student considering becoming a monk, whose thought (e.g., on conscience and equity) had been influenced by 14th century French theologian Jean Gerson, and whose intellect had been developed by his powerful patron Cardinal John Morton (d. 1500) who had famously attempted reforms of English monasteries.
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Hace 17 horas · 16th century. In the 16th century, the rivalry between Catholic monarchs prevented anti-Protestant crusades, but individual military actions were rewarded with crusader privileges, including Irish Catholic rebellions against English Protestant rule and the Spanish Armada's attack on England under Queen Elizabeth I.
Hace 17 horas · Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the late 16th century, famously received and sponsored various alchemists at his court in Prague, including Dee and his associate Edward Kelley. King James IV of Scotland , [101] Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Augustus, Elector of Saxony , Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , and Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel all ...
Hace 17 horas · The burning of a 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist, Anneken Hendriks, who was charged with heresy The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478, with the aim of preserving Catholic orthodoxy; some of its principal targets were " Marranos ", formally converted Jews thought to have relapsed into Judaism , or the Moriscos , formally converted Muslims thought to have relapsed into Islam .
Hace 17 horas · 5. Even everyday beer was strong. One enduring misconception is that people were able to drink so much in the 16th century because their beer was relatively weak. Based on little evidence, it is assumed that beer of around 2% alcohol by volume (abv) was the most common drink of the working classes.
