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  • With the exception of some months spent in Dieppe, France (1557-1558), when he was contemplating a return to Scotland, he continued to officiate ...
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  • Jonathan Porter, Macau, the Imaginary City: Culture and Society, 1557 ... *Porter, Jonathan. Macau, the Imaginary City: Culture and Society ...
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  • to transcribe; another copy was transcribed in 1557. The Yongle ta-tien (“The Great Canon of the Yung-lo Era,” or Yongle Encyclopedia) preserved ...
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  • In the summer of 1557 he left the Bosphorus with a fleet of 60 galleys and, arriving at the Gulf of Taranto, he landed in Calabria and assaulted ...
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  • of Sunda. They conquered Sunda Kelapa on June 22, 1557, and changed its name to "Jayakarta" ("Great Deed" or "Complete Victory"). ...
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  • founded in 1348, was again re-founded in 1557 and renamed to Cambridge's Gonville and Caius College. There are also several theological colleges ...
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  • agreements of the member towns. In 1557 and 1579 revised agreements spelled out the duties of towns and some progress was made. The Bruges Kontor ...
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  • Muslims and Christians continued unabated. In 1557, Jean Parisot de Valette was elected Grand Master of the Order. He continued his raids on non-Christian ...
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  • he died close to Mecca in the Arabian desert in 1557. == India Revisited== Sher Shah Suri had died in 1545, and, although he had been a powerful ...
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  • whose members dealt in skins and furs. He died in 1557 when his son was aged about five years, and his wife Margery followed soon after. Haklyut's ...
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  • the first European colony, Macao, was founded (1557). Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy, including four-masted ships of 1,500 tons ...
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  • to Spain's first bankruptcy (moratorium) in 1557, due to the rising costs of military efforts. Dependent on sales taxes from Castile and the Netherlands ...
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  • January 6, 1540; annulled 1540; she died July 17, 1557) |- |colspan=4|no issue |- |colspan=4|By Catherine Howard (married July 28, 1540; annulled ...
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  • Suleiman Mosque, Istanbul. Built between 1550 and 1557 and considered an architectural masterpiece]] ===Expansion=== Throughout the sixteenth ...
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  • The term Byzantine Empire was invented in 1557, about a century after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, by German historian Hieronymus ...
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  • was the state bankruptcy of Philip II in 1557, which threw the German banking houses into chaos and ended the reign of the Fuggers as Spanish ...
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  • and Zwinglianism. At the Colloquy of Worms in 1557 which he attended only reluctantly, the adherents of Flacius and the Saxon theologians tried to ...
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  • An Ottoman invading force under Suleiman I conquered Massawa in 1557, building what is now considered the 'old town' of Massawa on ...
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  • lost his sight, speech, and reason, and on July 10, 1557 he died. From that day, Catherine took a broken lance as her emblem, inscribed with the words ...
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  • Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557)] Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 3(2) (2002). Retrieved January 25, 2021. ...
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