Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the …

Interno della basilica in un dipinto di Giovanni Paolo Pannini. La basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, ufficialmente papale basilica maggiore di San Pietro in Vaticano, è una basilica cattolica della Città del Vaticano; simbolo dello Stato del Vaticano, cui fa da coronamento la monumentale piazza San Pietro.. È la più grande delle quattro basiliche papali di Roma ed è …

Early life. Gaston Jean Baptiste was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau on 24 April 1608 and at birth was given the title of Duke of Anjou.As a child, he was raised under the supervision of the royal governess Françoise de Montglat.In 1626, at the time of his marriage to the young Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, he received in appanage (with their respective titles) the …

Francesco Redi (18 February 1626 – 1 March 1697) was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.. Having a doctoral degree in both …

Salem (/ ˈ s eɪ l ə m / SAY-ləm) is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, located on the North Shore of Greater Boston.Continuous settlement by Europeans began in 1626 with English colonists. Salem would become one of the most significant seaports trading commodities in early American history.. Today Salem is a residential and tourist area that is home to the …

Witch trials in the early modern period saw that between 1400 to 1782, around 40,000 to 60,000 were killed due to suspicion that they were practicing witchcraft, with some other sources estimating that a total of 100,000 deaths occurred at its maximum for a similar period. Groundwork on the concept of witchcraft (a person's collaboration with the devil through the use of magic) …

1626 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (d. 1690) 1629 – Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1685) 1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1704) 1686 – John Balguy, English philosopher and author (d. 1748) 1696 – Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (d. 1755)

下間 頼廉（しもつま らいれん、天文6年（1537年）- 寛永3年6月20日（1626年 8月11日））は、戦国時代から江戸時代の僧侶、武将。 石山本願寺の坊官。 下間頼康の子。母は下間頼次の娘。 子に頼亮、宗清、仲玄、下間仲世室、牧長勝室、端坊明勝室、川那部宗甫室。

Kristina Augusta (svenskt uttal: [krɪ²stiːna au̯ˈɡus.ta]; antog namnet Kristina Alexandra 1655), född 18 december 1626 i Stockholm i Sverige, död 19 april 1689 i Rom i Italien, [a] var drottning av Sverige i egen rätt från 1632 till 1654, regerande från 1644. Under hennes regeringstid utkämpades stora delar av och avslutades trettioåriga kriget samt Torstenssons krig, vilka …

Haplogroup H is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.The clade is believed to have originated in Southwest Asia, near present day Syria, around 20,000 to 25,000 years ago. Mitochondrial haplogroup H is today predominantly found in Europe, and is believed to have evolved before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). It first expanded in the northern Near East …

Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, KG, PC (24 August 1561 – 28 May 1626) of Audley End House in the parish of Saffron Walden in Essex, and of Suffolk House near Westminster, a member of the House of Howard, was the second son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk by his second wife Margaret Audley, the daughter and eventual sole heiress of Thomas Audley, …

Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares, GE, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (taken by joining both his countship and subsequent dukedom) (6 January 1587 – 22 July 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite (Spanish: valido) of Philip IV and minister. Appointed as Grandee on 10 April 1621, a day after the ending of the Twelve Years' Truce to …

Willem II (Den Haag, 27 mei 1626 – aldaar, 6 november 1650), prins van Oranje en graaf van Nassau-Oranje, was tussen 1647 en 1650 stadhouder van Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Overijssel, Gelre en Zutphen, Groningen en Drenthe

John Dowland (heute meist ˈdɑulənd, historisch ˈdoʊlənd) (* (nach eigener Angabe) 1563 möglicherweise in London; begraben 20. Februar 1626 in St Anne, Blackfriars, London) war ein englischer Lautenist, bedeutender Komponist und Musikherausgeber des …