• Year 1491 (MCDXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 2 – Alain I of Albret signs...
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  • 1491 (MCDXCI) was a common year. 1491 may also refer to: 1491 (musical), a 1969 musical about Christopher Columbus by Meredith Willson 1491 Balduinus...
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    Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his six marriages and his...
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    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian...
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    NGC 1491, also known as LBN 704, SH2-206 or the Fossil Footprint Nebula, is an emission type bright nebula located about 9,800 light years away from Earth...
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    Lady Margaret Beaufort (pronounced /ˈboʊfərt/ BOH-fərt or /ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses...
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    The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Originally named...
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    An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection...
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  • 1490s BC (redirect from 1491 BC)
    BC—Thutmose I dies (other date is 1493 BC). 1492 BC—April 3—Lunar Saros 37 begins. 1491 BC—According to James Ussher's chronology, this is when Moses led the Hebrews...
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    The Kingdom of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს სამეფო, Sakartvelos samepo), also known as the Georgian Empire, was a medieval Eurasian monarchy that was...
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    Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya 1485–1491 Thimma Bhupala 1491 Narasimha Raya II 1491–1505...
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    King Henry VIII (1491–1547)...
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  • Events from the year 1491 in France Monarch – Charles VIII March 25 – Marie d'Albret, Countess of Rethel, French nobility (died October 27 1549) May 10...
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  • 1491 is a musical centered around Christopher Columbus before his voyage to discover the New World. Music and lyrics are by American composer and playwright...
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    history encyclopaedia, was published by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz, Germany in 1491. It describes species in the natural world along with their medicinal uses...
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    Baron Stourton Earl of Nottingham (5th creation), 1525 King Henry VIII (1491–1547) Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 or 1507–1536) Charles Stourton (c. 1520–1557)...
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    Aeroflot Flight 1491 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow-Vnukovo Airport to Kharkiv Airport in the USSR that crashed on 18 May 1972 while...
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  • The 1491 Cyprus earthquake occurred on 24 April 1491, and resulted in extensive damage across the island of Cyprus and some limited damage in the Levant...
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  • A wapenshaw or wapinshaw (from the Old English for "weapon show") was originally a gathering and review of troops formerly held in every district in Scotland...
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  • 1490s in music (redirect from 1491 in music)
    Innocent VIII for the title and privileges of doctor of canon and civil law. 1491 – After an extended legal disputation, the singer and composer Francisco...
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  • 1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus is an eight-episode docudrama television miniseries based on The New York Times best-selling book...
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    The Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, took place when the Ottoman Sultanate invaded the Mamluk Sultanate's territories of Anatolia and Syria. This war was...
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    Christchurch Priory is an ecclesiastical parish and former priory church in Christchurch in the English county of Dorset (formerly in Hampshire). It is...
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    This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the year 1491. It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged...
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  • Battle of Zasław took place near the village of Iziaslav, on 24 January 1491, during the Polish–Ottoman War. It was fought by the armies of the Crown...
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    The Spasskaya Tower, built in 1491...
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  • born Leonhard Agtstein in Basel, was a compositor who worked from 1472 to 1491. He is one of the first to introduce the art of printing books in Italy....
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    16 October 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023. Mann, Charles C. (2006) [2005]. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Vintage Books. pp. 326–33...
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    Deep Past of Pre-Colonial Australia". The Historical Journal. 64 (5): 1486–1491. doi:10.1017/S0018246X20000369. ISSN 0018-246X. Bender, Barbara (1978). "Gatherer-hunter...
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    Cecily had two children, Elizabeth Welles (c. 1489–1498) and Anne Welles (c. 1491 – c. 1499). He died 9 February 1498 in London. Anne died soon after. His...
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