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Juan de la Cosa (c. 1460 – February 28, 1510) was a Spanish cartographer, conquistador, and explorer. He made the earliest extant European ...

employed at the Cambrai Cathedral for four months in 1460, it has been speculated that he studied with Dufay, who spent the last part of his life there ...

Henry the Navigator (1394 - 1460) was the third son of John I of Portugal ... (António Noli claimed the credit). By 1460, the Portuguese had explored ...

Vyasatirtha (Kannada:ವ್ಯಾಸತೀರ್ಥ) (1460 – 1539), also called Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three founders ...

| father= Richard, Duke of York (1411–1460) | mother= Cecily Neville ... assertion of his claim to the crown, in 1460, was the key escalation of ...

pain, and intense asceticism. From 1455-1460, dates the Judith and Holofernes ... * Judith and Holofernes (1455-1460) - Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ...

on perspective in 1458, one on Euclid in 1460, and one on Virgil's ... classical Greek works in Europe. In May of 1460, Bessarion encouraged Peuerbach ...

and Lijsbette Gheeraerts. His mother died in 1460 at the age of 20. His portrait, painted in 1496, gives his age as 38, establishing his birth date. ...

In 1460, Warwick and the others launched an invasion of England, and ... as king. A compromise was struck in October 1460, with the Act of Accord, which ...

seven (4a) of eleven, Netherlands, c. 1460.]] Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related Latin texts dating from about ...

Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 – July 1521) was a Spanish conquistador who became the first known European to discover Florida after establishing ...

(Mathios Kuruvenus) of Ofen (Budapest, Hungary) in 1460 with another red flag showing two pentagrams with two golden stars. The pentagram, therefore, ...

entirely himself, were San Sebastiano (1460), still under construction ... entirely himself, were San Sebastiano (1460), still under construction ...

used by the Swiss medical printer Johann Frobenius (1460-1527), who used the staff entwined with serpents, not winged but surmounted by a dove, with ...

* Duby, Georges. 1993. France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: from Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc. A History of France. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9780631189459 ...

Vyasatirtha (1460 – 1539), Ramacharya, Sripadaraya, Vadirajatirtha, Vijaya Dasa and the famous Hindu saint, Raghavendra Swami (1591 – 1671 ...

risk? Annals of Oncology 15(10): 1460-1465. 137572703 Category:Life sciencesCategory:Biochemistry ...

John Skelton (c. 1460 – June 21, 1529) is one of the most unusual poets to reside in the English canon. He wrote most of his most famous poetry ...

Since the IH 1440 and 1460 Axial-Flow Combines came out in 1977, combines have rotors in place of conventional cylinders. A rotor is a long ...

of Austria, who imprisoned Nicholas in 1460. Pope Pius II excommunicated Sigismund and laid an interdict on his lands as punishment. Nicholas ...

He also wrote a Requiem mass around 1460, which is lost. After an illness of several weeks, Dufay died on November 27, 1474. He had requested ...

300 copies of 754 pages, printed in Mainz in 1460, was executed in his workshop. Meanwhile, the Fust–Schöffer shop was the first in Europe ...

a female figure. The Master of the Banderoles's 1460 work the Pool of Youth similarly shows a group of females standing in a space surrounded by ...

The Portuguese reached Guinea between 1460 and 1470, around the time the Songhai Empire (early fifteenth to late sixteenth centuries) was one ...

from an illuminated manuscript c. 1455-1460.]] Charlemagne and his army have been fighting for seven years in Spain. Marsilion, or Marsile, the ...

tribute to the Ottomans in 1459 and around 1460 made a new alliance with Corvinus ... (where Vlad the Impaler had once lived) in 1460. Another allegation asserts ...

After Pope Pius II in his bull, Execrabilis (1460) and his reply to the University of Cologne (1463) set aside the theory of the supremacy of general ...

invade them as well, held out until 1460. Long before the fall of Constantinople, Demetrius had fought for the throne with Thomas, Constantine ...

side of the case. Identified by this name by 1460, it was played either in the lap, or more commonly, rested on a table.Robert Dearling, The Ultimate ...

The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460, and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands, but by 1500, most of the plains and ...

ridge 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Cusco, around 1460, as a family home, a retreat, or a fortress. The intended purpose of the city has been a matter ...

explorer Pedro de Cintra, who visited in 1460, gave the name Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains), later changed to Sierra Leone by the British. Portuguese ...

III of England|Edward III]]. Jean Fouquet, 1455 x 1460.]] The invasion by Isabella and Mortimer was successful: King Edward's few allies ...

France, Flanders, and the Netherlands between 1460 and his death in 1475. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01246a.htm McNicholas, J.T. "Alanus ...

pattern of discovery and settlement was repeated in 1460 with Fernao Gomes' discovery of the Cape Verde Islands, and in 1470 with the discovery ...

Josquin became a choirboy there, probably around 1460, and was in charge of its music. He may have studied counterpoint under Ockeghem, whom he greatly ...

of rifling was in Germany, around 1460, although the precision required for its effective manufacture kept it out of the hands of infantrymen ...

[[Image:WorldShips1460.jpg|thumb|240px|Ships of the world in 1460, according to the Fra Mauro map. Chinese junks are described as very large ...

Vasco da Gama (1460 or 1469–1524) led a Portuguese fleet of four ships to India from Lisbon in 1498, one of numerous Portuguese expeditions ...

Mehmed II also conquered Mistra in 1460 and Trebizond in 1461. Mehmed allowed three days of looting (a custom at the time) then declared a halt ...

edition of the Corpus Hermeticum to his hometown in 1460 C.E. "Hermetica" at [http://www.ritmanlibrary.nl/c/p/lib/coll.html The Ritman ...

Portuguese explorer Pedro de Cintra, who visited in 1460, gave the name Serra Lyoa (Lioness Mountains), later changed to Sierra Leone by the ...

Built around 1460, Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 8,000 feet above sea on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru ...

Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim; Arabic: القدس al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to ...

in the Maithili style pioneered by Vidyapati (1374-1460). As a joke, he initially claimed that these were the lost works of what he claimed to be a ...

world. These include historian Marin Barleti (1460-1513), who in 1510 published in Rome a history of Skanderbeg; or Marino Becichemi (1408-1526); Gjon ...

The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460, and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands, but by 1500 most of the plains and ...

This act of terroris killed 191 people and wounded 1460 more, besides having a dramatic effect on the upcoming national elections. The bombings had an ...