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    Year 1579 (MDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on...
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  • 1570s BC (redirect from 1579 BC)
    The 1570s BC is a decade that began on January 1, 1579 BC, and ended on December 31, 1570 BC. 1570 BC—The Second Intermediate Period of Egypt ends and...
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    NGC 1579 (also known as the Northern Trifid) is a diffuse nebula located in the constellation of Perseus. It is referred to as the Northern Trifid because...
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  • This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1579. January 28 – Burmese language poets Nawrahta Minsaw and Hsinbyushin Medaw...
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  • Unquietnes of Ireland, Troubles of Scotlande: and the Blessed State of Englande 1579) Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, or Principall Part of the Mirrour...
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    a battle of the Eighty Years' War which lasted from March 12 to July 1, 1579. The Spanish were victorious. The Siege of Maastricht was undertaken in a...
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    (Ukrainian: Катерина Острозька, Lithuanian: Kotryna Ostrogiškaitė) (1560–1579) was a Ruthenian noblewoman. She was famed for the Siege of Dubna in 1577...
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    Ghent (8 November 1576), and the Unions of Arras (6 January 1579) and Utrecht (23 January 1579) constituted a crucial phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648)...
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    Janusz Radziwiłł (Lithuanian: Jonušas Radvila; 2 July 1579 – 3 December 1620) was a noble and magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was the...
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    Seventeen Provinces distanced themselves from the rebels in the north with the 1579 Union of Arras. Opposing them, the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces...
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     1850–1851. Spillers, Hortense. "The New Negro Renaissance." In Lauter 1994b, pp. 1579–1585. Philipson, Robert (2006). "The Harlem Renaissance as Postcolonial Phenomenon"...
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    the Duke of Anjou. He had the writer Jean de La Gessée as a secretary. In 1579, negotiations commenced for marrying Anjou to Elizabeth I of England. The...
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    Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 15th century 16th century 17th century Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s Years: 1579 1580 1581 1582 1583 1584 1585...
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    has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the 8th century. In 1579, the Union of Utrecht was signed in the city to lay the foundations for the...
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    Market of Goa is Plate 5 in Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's Itinerario. The plate depicts the market in Goa, a region on the southwestern coast of India that...
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    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Swedish: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an...
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    Drake explored and claimed an undefined portion of the California coast in 1579, landing north of the future city of San Francisco. The first Asians to set...
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    Czech Bible translation from the original languages was published between 1579 and 1593. The Codex Gigas from the 12th century is the largest extant medieval...
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  • Events from the year 1579 in Sweden Monarch – John III - Princess Cecilia of Sweden is exiled to Germany. - Sweden is struck by the plague. - Johannes...
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    historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the...
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    in 1521; the next earliest settlements are San Germán in 1570, Coamo in 1579, Arecibo in 1614, Aguada in 1692 and Ponce in 1692. Increased settlement...
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    the Spanish delegation at the papal conclave of 1644. Albornoz was born in 1579 in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, the son of Francisco de Albornoz (a Knight...
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    Eastern and Western politics and has been subject to foreign invasions. In 1579, the Ottoman Empire's attempt to expand from a coastal base at Massawa during...
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    proclaimed an adult ruler in a ceremony of Entry to Edinburgh on 19 October 1579. Morton was executed on 2 June 1581, belatedly charged with complicity in...
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  • Sir Richard Weston (1579–1658) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1642. He fought on the Royalist...
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    University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, New York, US, pp. 1457–1579 |doi=10.1017/9781009325844.012. Armstrong McKay, David; Abrams, Jesse; Winkelmann...
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  • Events from the year 1579 in Ireland. Monarch: Elizabeth I July 16 – James FitzMaurice FitzGerald lands with a small force of Irish, Spanish, and Italian...
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    John Fletcher (December 1579 – August 1625) was an English playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among...
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    Marquess of Worcester, 5th Earl of Worcester, 7th Baron Herbert Thomas Somerset 1579–1651 Viscount Somerset Robert Sidney 1595–1677 2nd Earl of Leicester Richard...
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