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41Swiss peasant war of 1653 — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Swiss peasant war of 1653 partof= caption= date=January ndash; June 1653 place=Cantons of Lucerne, Berne, Solothurn, Basel, and the Aargau, in the Old Swiss Confederacy casus=Popular revolt territory=… …
42Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle — For other people named Duke of Newcastle, see Dukes of Newcastle. His Grace The Duke of Newcastle KG PC Prime Minister of Great Britain …
43Scotland — /skot leuhnd/, n. a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 5,205,000; 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Cap.: Edinburgh. * * * I Northernmost country of the United Kingdom. Area: 30,421 sq mi (78,789 sq km). Population… …
44Stephen V of Hungary — Stephen V ( hu. V. István, hr. Stjepan VI., sk. Štefan V) (before October 18 1239, Buda, Hungary ndash; August 6 1272, Csepel Island, Hungary), King of Hungary and Croatia (1246 1272), and Duke of Styria (1258 1260). Early yearsHe was the elder… …
45Catholic League (German) — The German Catholic League ( de. Katholische Liga) was initially a loose confederation of Roman Catholic German states formed on July 10, 1609 to counteract the Protestant Union (formed 1608), whereby the participating states concluded an… …
46Christianization of Bulgaria — Part of a series on Bulgarians …
47Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de — ▪ French foreign minister born December 28, 1719, Dijon, France died February 13, 1787, Versailles French foreign minister who fashioned the alliance with the North American colonists that helped them throw off British rule in the American… …
48Alexander VI — (Rodrigo Borgia) 1431? 1503, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1492 1503 (father of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia). * * * orig. Rodrigo de Borja y Doms born 1431, Játiva, Aragon died Aug. 18, 1503, Rome Pope (1492–1503). Born into the Spanish branch of the …
49Justin II — died Oct. 4, 578 Byzantine emperor (565–78). He tolerated the Monophysite heresy until 571, then began to persecute its followers. Despite an alliance with the Franks, Justin lost parts of Italy to the Lombards after 568. He also suffered defeats …
50Toyotomi Hideyoshi — born 1536/37, Nakamura, Owari province, Japan died Sept. 18, 1598, Fushimi One of the three unifiers of premodern Japan (with Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu) who brought the nation out of its Warring States period. He began life as a peasant… …
