1587Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet on this day in history. 1588On April - 19 paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies 1591On April - 19 chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France 1605Orazio Benevoli, composer on this day in history. 1608Earl of Dorset...
2010. Locations and magnitudes of historical earthquakes in the Sierra of Ecuador (1587- 1996), Geophys. J. Int., 181: 1613-1633.Beauval C., Yepes H., Bakun W., Egred J., Alvarado A., Singaucho J.C., (2010) "Locations and magnitudes of historical earthquakes in the Sierra of ...
In 1587, Italian cartographer Urbano Monte created a world map with a unique perspective centred in the North Pole. This map is from one of the 60 pages of that work. Monte’s knowledge of Japan was apparently sourced from a Japanese delegation he had met in Milan, Italy in 1585. Monte...
such asUrbano Monte's manuscript world map from 1587. Visit the physical collection at theDavid Rumsey Map Centerat the Stanford University Library. Or take avirtual tourof the Map Center, which hosts events such as the recentBarry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography : Indigenous mapping....
The archives weren't opened for researchuntil 1881, and not all documents have become available for viewing in a timely manner.In 2020, the Vatican released information from the pontificate ofPope Pius XII(d. 1958), decades after events of WWII and the Holocaust. Jewish scholar...
Winchester Cathedral has seen a number of important events.William Rufuswas brought there after he was ‘accidentally’ shot dead in the New Forest. His remains lie in mortuary chests in the cathedral along with, probably, those of King Canute.Henry IVand Joan of Navarre were married in the ...
When describing major events or important decisions in history, the use of honorific speech may increase. This may reflect the importance of the event in shaping the fate of a society. The following are examples of the use of honorifics to describe historical events in identified historical storie...
Name Instructor Course Date Historical Accuracy in Henry IV Plays by Shakespeare Research shows that Shakespeare’s historical plays do not offer good sources for accurate rendering of historical events. The details of place of issues such as place, time, and personality are all subject to a great...
Notable events include: * The “Great Storm” that had the intensity of a major Category 2 hurricane which struck England in November 1703. * The mega-tsunami that struck Taiwan and the 1783 comet impact hypothesis. * The severity of winter in the Upper Midwest of the United States during ...
However, as a science, history cannot merely retell events without striving to understand and explain them. On the basis of an analysis of the totality of facts, history grasps the essence of individual phenomena and processes in the life of society and discovers not only the specific laws of...