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The Age of Discovery began in the mid 15th century with the voyages of the Portuguese explorer, Prince Henry the Navigator. Other Portuguese explorers later rounded the southern tip of Africa and discovered a water route to Asia, thereby bypassing the Silk Road. The discovery of a new water ...
(The discovery of a trade route around Africa had previously been discovered by the Portuguese explorer Prince Henry the Navigator.) However, King Manuel I of Portugal decided against supporting Magellan's proposed expedition. Instead, Magellan traveled to Portugal's neighbor, Spain, and asked King...
A key figure in these endeavours was the third son of the King John I, Prince Henry the Navigator. Prince Henry sponsored numerous voyages along the western coast of Africa and the colonization of the Madeira Islands. The efforts to establish Portugal's presence in Africa and participate in ...
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Bartolomeu DiasPortuguese navigator and explorer Bartolomeu Dias. Almost nothing is known of Dias’s early life. His supposed descent from one of PrinceHenry the Navigator’s pilots is unproved, and his rank was the comparatively modest one of squire of the royal household. ...
North Germany was now on the brink of revolt. The new king of France,Henry II, was eagerly awaiting an opportunity to renew the old rivalry between the houses of Valois and Burgundy, while the German princes believed that the moment was at hand to repay Charles for Mühlberg. After a sec...
“gentleman,”Henry VIIIlater gave the family lands, and its members held various offices. But family fortunes fell with thePuritanrevolution in England, and John Washington, grandfather of Augustine,migratedin 1657 to Virginia. The ancestral home at Sulgrave,Northamptonshire, is maintained as a ...
Cromwell was descended indirectly on his father’s side fromHenry VIII’s chief minister,Thomas Cromwell, who had assisted Oliver’s great-grandfather and grandfather in acquiring significant amounts of former monastic land in Huntingdon and in theFens. Oliver was the eldest surviving son of the ...
Also known as: Willem Hendrik, Prins van Oranje, William Henry, Prince of Orange, William of Orange Written by John S. Morrill Assistant Master and Professor of History, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Consultant editor for theOxford Dictionary of National Biography. ...