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Hace 1 día · Abyssinia. Abyssinia (also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. [1] The term was widely used as a synonym for Ethiopia until the mid-20th century and primarily designates the Amhara, Tigrayan and Tigrinya ...
Hace 3 días · Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s resulted in the abolition of their political and military privileges. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who gradually increased persecution of Protestantism until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685).
Hace 3 días · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
10 de abr. de 2024 · Henry Spencer, 1st earl of Sunderland (baptized November 23, 1620—died September 20, 1643, Newberry, Somerset, England) was the 1st earl of Sunderland and an English Cavalier during the English Civil Wars. Born to great wealth, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (M.A., 1636), and succeeded his father as Baron Spencer in 1636.
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11 de abr. de 2024 · During the 1620s, Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a “New Town” built to the east. Relations with the Powhatans deteriorated after the death of Chief Powhatan, and the Indians attacked Jamestown in 1622, killing 347 colonists.
11 de abr. de 2024 · George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (born 1578/79, Kipling, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 15, 1632) was an English statesman who projected the founding of the North American province of Maryland, in an effort to find a sanctuary for practicing Roman Catholics.
9 de abr. de 2024 · Richard Montagu (born December? 1577, Dorney, Buckinghamshire, Eng.—died April 13, 1641, Norwich, Norfolk) was an Anglican bishop, scholar, and theological polemicist whose attempt to seek a middle road between Roman Catholic and Calvinist extremes brought a threat of impeachment from his bishopric by Parliament.
