WebGeorge Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, KG (bapt. 5 November 1612 – 20 March 1677) was an English politician who as Lord Digby (a courtesy title) sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641, when he was raised to the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration.He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War, but his ambition and instability of …

WebHans Leo Haßler von Roseneck (auch: Hassler oder Hasler, seltener Johann Leo Haslerus; getauft 26.Oktober 1564 in Nürnberg; † 8. Juni 1612 in Frankfurt am Main) war ein deutscher Komponist, Organist, Uhrmacher und Verfertiger von Musikautomaten.. Haßler wird gelegentlich als wichtigster Komponist und Madrigalist seiner Zeit genannt, dessen …

WebThe Time of Troubles (Russian: Смутное время, Smutnoye vremya), or Smuta (Russian: Смута), was a period of political crisis during the Tsardom of Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I (Fyodor Ivanovich, the last of the Rurik dynasty) and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.. It was a time of …

WebSwordsmanship or sword fighting refers to the skills and techniques used in combat and training with any type of sword.The term is modern, and as such was mainly used to refer to smallsword fencing, but by extension it can also be applied to any martial art involving the use of a sword. The formation of the English word "swordsman" is parallel to the Latin …

WebAndreas Hammerschmidt, auch Hammerschmied oder Hammerschmiedt (* zwischen Mai und Oktober 1611 in Brüx, Böhmen; † 29. Oktober jul. / 8. November 1675 greg. in Zittau), war ein lutherischer deutscher Komponist und Organist

WebThe United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health.Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, …

WebHasekura Tsunenaga was born in year 2 of the Genki era (1571) in Ushū, Okitama-no-kōri, Nagai-sō, Tateishi-mura (now part of modern day Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture. He was the son of Yamaguchi Tsuneshige [] (山口常成), who had ancestral ties with Emperor Kanmu. He was a mid-level noble samurai in the Sendai Domain in northern Japan who …

WebOktober 1612 der Bischof von Chiemsee, Ehrenfried von Kuenburg. Erst wenige Tage zuvor war Markus Sittikus zum Priester geweiht worden. Am 8. August 1612 erfolgte die Bestätigung der Bischofswahl durch den Papst mit Erhalt des Palliums, am 8. Oktober 1612 zog der neu erwählte Erzbischof zur offiziellen Amtseinführung in Salzburg ein.

WebThe Polish–Russian War of 1609–1618, also known as the Polish–Muscovite War or the Dimitriads, was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth together with Zaporozhian Cossacks from 1609 to 1618.. Russia had been experiencing the Time of Troubles since the death of Tsar Feodor I in 1598, causing …

WebOntwikkeling van de naam. De naam Heilige Roomse Rijk is geleidelijk ontstaan. Het rijk werd Rooms genoemd omdat het gezien werd als voortzetting van het (West-)Romeinse Rijk, een idee dat translatio imperii genoemd werd. Het adjectief Heilig werd daar in de 12e eeuw aan toegevoegd om aan te geven dat de keizerlijke waardigheid direct van God …

WebPlace des Vosges, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carrousel to celebrate the engagement of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, is a prototype of the residential squares of European cities that were to come.What was new about the Place Royale in 1612, was that the housefronts were all built to the same design, probably by Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau of red …

WebPolityka Rzeczypospolitej wobec Moskwy w latach 1607–1612, Toruń 1995. Wacław Sobieski, Żółkiewski na Kremlu, Warszawa 1920. Robert Szcześniak , Kłuszyn 1610, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Bellona, 2004, ISBN 83-11-09785-2, OCLC 69591588 . Kazimierz Tyszkowski, Wojna o Smoleńsk 1613-1615, Lwów 1932.

WebA small annex to the Belfry of Ghent dating from 1741, including a sculpture of Roman Charity poised high above the front doorway. It is referred to as 'mammelokker', which translates from Dutch as 'breast sucker'. Mother-daughter version. During this period of prolific engagement with the imagery of Pero and Cimon, Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) …

WebA polder (Dutch pronunciation: ()) is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes.The three types of polder are: Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed; Flood plains separated from the sea or river by a dike; Marshes separated from the surrounding water …