The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached Europe in 1348 and killed up to half of the population of Eurasia in the next four years.Although the plague died out in most places, it became endemic and recurred regularly. A series of major epidemics occurred in the late 17th century, and the disease …

Renaissance, (French: “Rebirth”) period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages and conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values. The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the substitution of the Copernican for the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the …

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 78 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600. 1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins ... 1639 – Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1712) 1643 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal ...

May 29, 2022 · Europe - Paris Paris Paris - Paris. Layers and layers of meaning, yearning, disappointment, history, and changes live in that word. The (literal) glittering image of the Eiffel Tower. The hope of ...

May 23, 2022 · He died in the year 1468, at the ripe age of sixty-nine; and many years after the statue of him, which may be seen standing in Mayence, was erected in his honor by the descendants of those who had ...

Frederick II, byname Frederick the Great, German Friedrich der Grosse, (born January 24, 1712, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]—died August 17, 1786, Potsdam, near Berlin), king of Prussia (1740–86), a brilliant military campaigner who, in a series of diplomatic stratagems and wars against Austria and other powers, greatly enlarged Prussia’s territories and made Prussia the …

The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. (English) (as Editor) A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499 (English) (as Translator) The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions (English) (as Editor)