Historical events with pictures

Historical events with pictures

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King Carlos the First of Spain
(1500-1558)

His parents are Queen Juana and King Felipe of Castile.

He and Isabella of Portugal are the parents of the following children:

Felipe
Maria
Fernando
Juana
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1st January 1515: Also on this day of King Louis XII of France died between 10 and 11 o’clock at night, aged fifty two. He was the husband of Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII.
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December 27, 1437: Albrecht V, Duke of Austria, was recognized heir to the kingdoms of Hungary and Croatia following the death of his father-in-law Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. He was crowned on January 1, 1438 then crowned King of Bohemia six months later. He was elected King of Germany (as Albrecht II) in the middle of all that but died before being crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

Albrecht V: Win some, lose some …

The clashes with the Hussite armies in the Bohemian-Austrian border area ceased after truces were agreed in 1434/35. The movement then collapsed when the radical Taborite wing was defeated by the moderate aristocratic party at the Battle of Lipany in 1434. In 1436 at the Council of Basel the...
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[Portrait by Antoni Boys]

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Japan's Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, surrounded by members of the British royal family leaded by The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, poses at Buckingham Palace prior to the State banquet in their honour on October 5, 1971, during the Imperial extensive Tour of Europe, the first from a reigning Japanese Emperor outside Europe.

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With the patronage of the Spanish government, Christopher Columbus first set off to find a route to Asia in 1492. Equipped with three ships and fewer than 90 men, Columbus reached the Caribbean where he found indigenous people who,

...willingly traded everything they owned … They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features …They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron …They would make fine servants … With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
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Columbus spent the 1490s going back and forth between Europe and the New World, while his Italian countryman Leonard da Vinci produced one of his best-known works of art. Between 1495 and 1498, da Vinci applied "oil tempera" - a blend of oil paint and egg
 
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