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2025-04-05 18:25:13
2025-04-05 23:52:07
1580
Alcidamas
Alcidamas (), of Elaea, in Aeolis, was a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who flourished in the 5th-4th century BC . Life He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as Isocrates, to whom he was a rival and opponent. We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists (Περὶ Σοφιστ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcidamas
2025-04-05T18:25:42.339557
1581
Aldine Press
]] The Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics (Latin and Greek masterpieces, plus a few more modern works). The first book that was dated and printed under his name appeared in 1495. The Aldine Press is fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldine_Press
2025-04-05T18:25:42.351284
1583
Ealdred (archbishop of York)
Ealdred (or Aldred; As administrator of the Diocese of Hereford, he was involved in fighting against the Welsh, suffering two defeats at the hands of raiders before securing a settlement with Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, a Welsh ruler. In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York but had difficulty in obtaining ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealdred_(archbishop_of_York)
2025-04-05T18:25:42.423891
1585
Alexander I of Epirus
--> | birth_place | death_date 331 BC | burial_place | title King of Epirus | religion = Ancient Greek religion | spouse | issue Neoptolemus II of Epirus | house = Aeacidae | father = Neoptolemus I of Epirus | mother = }} Alexander I of Epirus (; c. 370 BC – 331 BC), also known as Alexander Molossus (), was a king of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Epirus
2025-04-05T18:25:42.426947
1586
Alexander Balas
--> | birth_place = Smyrna<br />(now İzmir, Turkey) | death_date August 145 BC<!-- --> | death_place | burial_date | burial_place | spouse Cleopatra Thea | consort = <!-- yes or no --> | issue = Antiochus VI Dionysus (first son with Cleopatra Thea)<!--list children in order of birth--> | issue-link | issue-pipe | iss...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Balas
2025-04-05T18:25:42.437591
1587
Alexander of Pherae
Alexander () was Tyrant or Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, ruling from 369 to 356 BC. Following the assassination of Jason, the tyrant of Pherae and Tagus of Thessaly, in 370 BC, his brother Polyphron ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander who assumed power himself. Alexander governed tyrannically and wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Pherae
2025-04-05T18:25:42.442959
1588
Alexander II of Epirus
--> | birth_place | death_date <!-- (death date then birth) --> | burial_place | title King of Epirus | religion = Ancient Greek religion | spouse = Olympias II of Epirus | issue = Pyrrhus II of Epirus<br>Ptolemy of Epirus<br>Phthia of Macedon | house = Aeacidae | father = Pyrrhus I of Epirus | mother = Lanassa of Syra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Epirus
2025-04-05T18:25:42.446585
1589
Alexander Jagiellon
He was the fourth son of Casimir IV and a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. Alexander was elected grand duke of Lithuania upon the death of his father and became king of Poland upon the death of his elder brother John I Albert.Early lifeAlexander was born as the fourth son of King Casimir IV Jagiellon and Elizabeth o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jagiellon
2025-04-05T18:25:42.452327
1592
Alexander III of Russia
| coronation = 27 May 1883 | cor-type = Russia | predecessor = Alexander II | successor = Nicholas II | spouse = | issue = | issue-link = #Issue | issue-pipe | full name Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov | house = Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov | father = Alexander II of Russia | mother = Marie of Hesse and by Rhine | birth_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia
2025-04-05T18:25:42.484613
1593
Alexander I of Scotland
| birth_place = Dunfermline | death_date = 23 April 1124 (aged 45) | death_place = Stirling | burial_place = Dunfermline Abbey }} Alexander I (medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim; modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim; c. 1078 – 23 April 1124), posthumously nicknamed The Fierce, was the King of Alba (Scotl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Scotland
2025-04-05T18:25:42.490351
1594
Alexander II of Scotland
* }} | issue = Alexander III of Scotland<br>Marjorie (illegitimate) | house = Dunkeld | father = William the Lion | mother = Ermengarde de Beaumont | birth_date = 24 August 1198 | birth_place = Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland | death_date | death_place = Kerrera, Scotland | burial_date | burial_place Melrose Abbey...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Scotland
2025-04-05T18:25:42.497336
1595
Alexander I of Serbia
| succession = King of Serbia | image = AlejandroIDeSerbiaEn1900.jpg | caption = Alexander in 1900 | coronation = 2 July 1889 | reign = 6 March 188911 June 1903 | predecessor = Milan I | successor = Peter I | regent = Full list | reg-type = Prime ministers | spouse | house = Obrenović | father = Milan I of Serbia | mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Serbia
2025-04-05T18:25:42.523432
1596
Alexander III of Scotland
* }} | issue = | issue-link = #Succession | issue-pipe = more... | house = Dunkeld | father = Alexander II | mother = Marie de Coucy | birth_date = 4 September 1241 | birth_place = Roxburgh Castle, Roxburghshire, Scotland | death_date | death_place = Kinghorn Ness, Fife, Scotland | place of burial = Dunfermline Abbey...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Scotland
2025-04-05T18:25:42.533911
1597
Alexander of Greece (disambiguation)
Alexander of Greece (1893–1920) was king of Greece from 1917 until his death. Alexander of Greece may also refer to: Alexander of Greece (rhetorician) () Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), ancient Greek king and general See also Alexander § People with the given name Alexander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece_(disambiguation)
2025-04-05T18:25:42.534523
1599
Alexander of Aphrodisias
right|thumb|Opening paragraph of the treatise On Fate (Peri eimarmenes) by Alexander of Aphrodisias dedicated to the Emperors (tous autokratoras). From an anonymous edition published in 1658. Alexander of Aphrodisias (; AD) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Aphrodisias
2025-04-05T18:25:42.567359
1600
Severus Alexander
March 235 | predecessor = Elagabalus | successor = Maximinus Thrax | birth_name = Bassianus Alexianus | birth_date = 1 October 208 | birth_place = Arca Caesarea, Phoenicia (modern Akkar, Lebanon) | death_date = March 235 (aged 26) | death_place = Moguntiacum, Germania Superior (Mainz, Germany) | burial_place = | spous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severus_Alexander
2025-04-05T18:25:42.585822
1601
Alexander
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> |gender = Male |name day = August 30 |origin = Via Latin Alexander, originally from the Greek (Aléxandros), from aléxein meaning "to ward off, keep off, turn away, defend, protect" and andrós, genitive of anḗr meaning "man". |meaning = "Defender, protector of man" | nickname = Alex, Ale...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander
2025-04-05T18:25:42.607892
1602
Alexander I
Alexander I may refer to: Alexander I of Macedon, king of Macedon from 495 to 454 BC Alexander I of Epirus (370–331 BC), king of Epirus Alexander I Theopator Euergetes, surnamed Balas, ruler of the Seleucid Empire 150-145 BC Pope Alexander I (died 115), early bishop of Rome Pope Alexander I of Alexandria (died 32...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I
2025-04-05T18:25:42.609378
1603
Alexander II
Alexander II may refer to: Alexander II of Macedon, king of Macedon from 370 to 368 BC Alexander II of Epirus (died 260 BC), king of Epirus in 272 BC Alexander II Zabinas, king of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 128–123 BC Alexander (Byzantine emperor) ruled from 912-913 Pope Alexander II of Alexandria, ruled from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II
2025-04-05T18:25:42.610166
1604
Alexander III
Alexander III may refer to: Alexander III of Macedon (356 BC – 323 BC), also known as Alexander the Great Alexander (Byzantine emperor) (870–913), Byzantine emperor Pope Alexander III (1100s–1181) , grand duke of Vladimir (1328–1331), prince of Suzdal Alexander III of Scotland (1241–1286), king of Scotland Alexa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III
2025-04-05T18:25:42.611064
1605
Alexander Aetolus
Alexander Aetolus (, Alexandros ho Aitōlos) or Alexander the Aetolian was a Hellenistic Greek poet and grammarian, who worked at the Library of Alexandria and composed poetry in a variety of genres, now almost entirely lost. He is the only known Aetolian poet of antiquity. Life and works Alexander was a native of Ple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Aetolus
2025-04-05T18:25:42.614437
1606
Alexander Jannaeus
| predecessor = Aristobulus I | successor = Salome Alexandra | spouse = Salome Alexandra | issue = Hyrcanus II<br />Aristobulus II | royal house | father John Hyrcanus | mother | birth_date c. 130 BCE | birth_place | death_date c. 76 BCE | death_place = Ragaba | religion = Hellenistic Judaism | buried | dynasty Hasmone...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jannaeus
2025-04-05T18:25:42.623111
1607
Alexander IV
Alexander IV may refer to: Pope Alexander IV (1199 or –1261) Alexander IV of Macedon (323 BC–309 BC), son of Alexander the Great Alexander IV of Imereti (died 1695), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, king of Imereti (western Georgia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_IV
2025-04-05T18:25:42.623585
1612
Alexandrists
The Alexandrists were a school of Renaissance philosophers who, in the great controversy on the subject of personal immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by Alexander of Aphrodisias. According to the orthodox Thomism of the Catholic Church, Aristotle rightly regarded reason as a facility of the in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrists
2025-04-05T18:25:42.624831
1613
Alexios I Komnenos
| image = Alexios I Komnenos.jpg | caption = | succession = Byzantine emperor | reign = 1 April 108115 August 1118 | coronation = 4 April 1081 | predecessor = Nikephoros III Botaneiates | successor = John II Komnenos | regent = Constantine Doukas (1081–87) | reg-type = Co-emperor | spouse = Irene Doukaina | issue = |...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos
2025-04-05T18:25:42.641883
1614
Alexis (poet)
Alexis (;  350s288 BC) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period. He was born in Thurii (in present-day Calabria, Italy) in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion () and the tribe Leontides. It is thought he lived to the age of 106 and died on the st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_(poet)
2025-04-05T18:25:42.658825
1615
Alexios II Komnenos
September 1183 |coronation = 1171 as co-emperor |cor-type = Coronation |predecessor = Manuel I Komnenos |successor = Andronikos I Komnenos |spouse = |full name |house Komnenos |house-type = Dynasty |father = Manuel I Komnenos |mother = Maria of Antioch |birth_date |birth_place = Constantinople<br />(now Istanbul, Tur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_II_Komnenos
2025-04-05T18:25:42.664542
1616
Alexios III Angelos
18 July 1203 | predecessor = Isaac II Angelos | successor = Isaac II Angelos<br/>Alexios IV Angelos | spouse = Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera | issue = Eirine Angelina<br />Anna Komnene Angelina<br />Eudokia Angelina<br /> Kaykhusraw I (adopted) | dynasty = Angelos | father = Andronikos Angelos Doukas | mother = Euphrosy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_III_Angelos
2025-04-05T18:25:42.687079
1617
Alexios V Doukas
<br />Baldwin I <br />Theodore I <br />Michael I <br />Alexios I <br />Alexios III <br> Boniface I (Thessalonica) | spouse = Philokalina <br /> Eudokia Angelina | dynasty = Angelos dynasty | birth_date = Date unknown | death_date = | religion = Greek Orthodox }} Alexios V Doukas (; died December 1204), Latinized as A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_V_Doukas
2025-04-05T18:25:42.694174
1620
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia
| issue = | house = Romanov | father = Peter I of Russia | mother = Eudoxia Lopukhina | birth_date = 28 February 1690 | birth_place = Moscow, Russia | death_date | death_place = Petropavlovskaya fortress, St. Petersburg, Empire of Russia | place of burial = }} Grand Duke Alexei Petrovich of Russia (28 February 1690...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Petrovich,_Tsarevich_of_Russia
2025-04-05T18:25:42.699338
1623
Andrew Jackson
USS President Jackson|the class of attack transports|President Jackson-class attack transportPresident Jackson–class attack transport}} | alt = A portrait of Andrew Jackson, serious in posture and expression, with a grey-and-white haired widow's peak, wearing a red-collared black cape. | order = 7th | office = Preside...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
2025-04-05T18:25:43.137271
1624
Andrew Johnson
| order = 17th | office = President of the United States | term_start = April 15, 1865 | term_end = March 4, 1869 | predecessor = Abraham Lincoln | successor = Ulysses S. Grant | vicepresident = None | order2 = 16th | office2 = Vice President of the United States | president2 = Abraham Lincoln | term_start2 = March 4, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson
2025-04-05T18:25:43.227544
1625
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
<!-- This article uses footnote surname clarification. Do NOT add here. --> | image = Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1974crop.jpgborder | alt | caption Solzhenitsyn in 1974 | birth_date | birth_place = Kislovodsk, Russian SFSR | death_date | death_place = Moscow, Russia | occupation = | citizenship = | alma_mater = Rostov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
2025-04-05T18:25:43.326047
1627
Aberdeen
<br/> (Northern Scots) | settlement_type = City, lieutenancy and council area | image_skyline | imagesize | image_alt | image_caption | image_flag City_Flag_of_Aberdeen.svg | flag_alt | image_shield Coat of arms of Aberdeen.svg | shield_alt | shield_link Coat of arms of Aberdeen | image_blank_emblem | blank_emblem_si...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen
2025-04-05T18:25:43.490969
1628
August 23
Events Pre-1600 *30 BC &ndash; After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, the eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. *79 &ndash; Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_23
2025-04-05T18:25:43.591256
1629
August 24
Events Pre-1600 * 367 &ndash; Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father. * 394 &ndash; The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written. * 410 &ndash; The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome. *1185 &nd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_24
2025-04-05T18:25:43.669628
1633
Antipope
An antipope () is a person who claims to be Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church in opposition to the legitimately elected pope. Between the 3rd and mid-15th centuries, antipopes were supported by factions within the Church itself and secular rulers. Sometimes it was difficult to distinguish which of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope
2025-04-05T18:25:43.812539
1634
Aquaculture
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus). Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture
2025-04-05T18:25:43.923706
1635
Kolmogorov complexity
fractal. Simply storing the 24-bit color of each pixel in this image would require 23 million bytes<!--3200 × 2400 × 3 = 23.04e6-->, but a small computer program can reproduce these 23 MB using the definition of the Mandelbrot set and the corner coordinates of the image. Thus, the Kolmogorov complexity of this image is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
2025-04-05T18:25:43.995073
1637
Hymn to Proserpine
“Hymn to Proserpine” is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina, the Roman equivalent of Persephone, but laments the rise of Christianity for displacing the pagan goddess and her pantheon. The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_to_Proserpine
2025-04-05T18:25:44.061009
1638
The Triumph of Time
"The Triumph of Time" is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. It is in adapted ottava rima and is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly alliteration. The theme, which purports to be autobiographical, is that of rejected love. The speaker deplores the ruin of hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Time
2025-04-05T18:25:44.082541
1639
April 28
Events Pre-1600 * 224 &ndash; The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire. * 357 &ndash; Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius. *1192 &ndash; Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_28
2025-04-05T18:25:44.163301
1640
Alfred the Great
| predecessor = Æthelred I | succession1 = King of the Anglo-Saxons | reign1 = – 26 October 899 | successor1 = Edward the Elder | image = Alfred the Great, silver penny; struck 875–880 (obverse).png | caption = Silver penny of Alfred, struck –880.<br/>Legend: }} | house = Wessex | issue = | birth_date = 847–849 | birt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great
2025-04-05T18:25:44.269111
1642
Alessandro Algardi
of Cardinal Paolo Emilio Zacchia, c. 1650]] Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Rome...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Algardi
2025-04-05T18:25:44.322110
1643
Alger of Liège
Alger of Liège (1055–1131), known also as Alger of Cluny and Algerus Magister, was a learned clergyman and canonist from Liège, author of several notable works. Alger was first deacon and scholaster of church of St Bartholomew in his native Liège and was then appointed () as a canon in St. Lambert's Cathedral. Moreove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_of_Liège
2025-04-05T18:25:44.360184
1644
Algiers
| other_name = al-Jazāʾir | official_name = الجزائر العاصمة | nicknames = Algiers the White; Algiers the Dazzling | settlement_type = Capital city | imagesize = 275px | image_skyline = | image_caption | image_flag Flag of Algiers.svg | image_shield = Algiers-COA.svg | pushpin_map = Algeria#Africa | pushpin_relief = ye...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers
2025-04-05T18:25:44.441353
1645
Ibn al-Haytham
| native_name = | image = Hazan.png | birth_date 965}} ()}} | birth_place = Basra, Buyid Emirate | death_date 1040}} () Catoptrics, horopter, Spherical aberration, intromission theory of visual perception, moon illusion, experimental science, scientific methodology, animal psychology | footnotes | Religion }} Ḥasan Ib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
2025-04-05T18:25:44.557823
1647
Alessandro Allori
| birth_name | birth_date | birth_place = Florence, Italy | death_date | death_place = Florence, Italy | field = Painting | training | movement Mannerism | works | patrons | influenced by | influenced | awards = }} Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Allori
2025-04-05T18:25:44.603965
1649
Almoravid dynasty
<br> Al-Murābiṭūn | conventional_long_name = Almoravid dynasty | common_name = Almoravids | status = Empire * Nominal vassal of the Abbasid Caliphate | year_start = 1050s | year_end = 1147 | p1 = ZenataZenata kingdoms | p2 = Taifa#First period (11th century)First Taifas period | p3 = BarghawataBarghawata Confederacy | ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almoravid_dynasty
2025-04-05T18:25:44.720952
1650
Aloe
ahalim, plural of ahal. Description Most Aloe species have a rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves. Aloe flowers are tubular, frequently yellow, orange, pink, or red, and are borne, densely clustered and pendant, at the apex of simple or branched, leafless stems. Many species of Aloe appear to be stemless, with the ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloe
2025-04-05T18:25:44.760713
1652
Alyattes
}}<br/><small>()</small> }} Alyattes (Lydian language: ; ; reigned c. 635 – c. 585 BC), sometimes described as Alyattes I, was the fourth king of the Mermnad dynasty in Lydia, the son of Sadyattes, grandson of Ardys, and great-grandson of Gyges. He died after a reign of 57 years and was succeeded by his son Croesus. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyattes
2025-04-05T18:25:44.822091
1653
Age of consent
}} , Mexico and the United States. In China is Hong Kong an exception, where the age of consent ist 16, not 14 (wrong in the map!). <br /> ]] <!-- This page has been automatically assigned the correct protection templates by User:Lowercase sigmabot. If the protection templates are wrong, please fix them. Thanks. --> ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
2025-04-05T18:25:44.868218
1654
Alypius of Antioch
Alypius of Antioch was a geographer and a vicarius of Roman Britain, probably in the late 350s AD. He replaced Flavius Martinus after that vicarius' suicide. His rule is recorded is Ammianus XXIII 1, 3. Life He came from Antioch and served under Constantius II and was probably appointed to ensure that nobody with west...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alypius_of_Antioch
2025-04-05T18:25:44.889722
1655
Amalasuintha
2 October 534 | reign-type = Regency | predecessor = Athalaric | pre-type = Monarch | succession1 = Queen regnant of the Ostrogoths | reign1 = 2 October 53430 April 535 | regent1 = Theodahad | reg-type1 = Co-monarch | predecessor1 = Athalaric | successor1 = Theodahad (as sole monarch) | birth_date | death_date = 30 Ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalasuintha
2025-04-05T18:25:44.915867
1656
Amalric of Bena
| death_place = Paris, Kingdom of France | nationality = French | education = University of Paris | occupation = Dialectician, Theologian | known_for = Founder of Amalricianism }} Amalric of Bena (; ; died ) was a French theologian, philosopher and sect leader, after whom the Amalricians are named. Reformers such as Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalric_of_Bena
2025-04-05T18:25:44.946872
1657
Afonso I of Portugal
| succession = King of Portugal | reign = | coronation = 25 July 1139 | cor-type = Acclamation | successor = Sancho I | birth_name Alphonso Henryquez | birth_date = 1106, 25 July 1109, August 1109 or 1111 | birth_place = Guimarães (some argue Viseu) | death_date = 6 December 1185 (aged ) | death_place = Coimbra, Portu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_I_of_Portugal
2025-04-05T18:25:44.980217
1658
Afonso II of Portugal
25 March 1223 | predecessor = Sancho I | successor = Sancho II | spouse | issue = | issue-link = #Marriage and descendants | issue-pipe = among others... | house = Burgundy | father = Sancho I of Portugal | mother = Dulce of Aragon | birth_name = Afonso Sanches | birth_date = 23 April 1185 | birth_place = Coimbra, Ki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_II_of_Portugal
2025-04-05T18:25:45.030809
1659
Afonso III of Portugal
16 February 1279 | predecessor = Sancho II | successor = Denis | succession1 = Count of Boulogne | more = (jure uxoris) | reign1 = 1238–1248 | predecessor1 = Matilda II | successor1 = Matilda II | regent1 = Matilda II | reg-type1 = Co-count | spouses = * }} | issue = Martim Afonso Chichorro * Urraca Afonso * Branca, L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_III_of_Portugal
2025-04-05T18:25:45.061662
1660
Afonso IV of Portugal
28 May 1357 | predecessor = Denis | successor = Peter I | spouse = | issue = | issue-pipe = Among others... | issue-link = #Marriage and descendants | house = Burgundy | father = Denis of Portugal | mother = Elizabeth of Aragon | birth_date = 8 February 1291 | birth_place = Lisbon, Portugal | death_date = 28 May 135...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_IV_of_Portugal
2025-04-05T18:25:45.088434
1661
Afonso V of Portugal
| reign1 = 15 November 1477 – | predecessor1 = John II | successor1 = John II | cor-type = Acclamation | coronation = 15 January 1446 | predecessor = Edward | successor = John II | reg-type1 = Regents | regent1 | birth_date = 15 January 1432 | birth_place = Sintra Palace, Portugal | death_date | death_place = Lisbon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_V_of_Portugal
2025-04-05T18:25:45.124568
1662
Afonso VI of Portugal
| regent1 = Count of Castelo Melhor<br />(1662–1667) | spouse | house = Braganza | father = John IV of Portugal | mother = Luisa de Guzmán | birth_date = 21 August 1643 | birth_place = Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal | death_date = 12 September 1683 (aged 40) | death_place = Sintra Palace, Sintra, Portugal | burial_p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_VI_of_Portugal
2025-04-05T18:25:45.152858
1663
Alphonso I of Spain
There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII (1857–1885). Several precursor kingdoms have had an Alfonso I, including: Alfonso I of Asturias (–757) Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre (–1134), known as the Battler Alfonso II of Ara...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_I_of_Spain
2025-04-05T18:25:45.174326
1664
Alfonso II of Asturias
| death_date = 842 }} ''.]] Alfonso II of Asturias (842), nicknamed the Chaste (), was the king of Asturias during two different periods: first in the year 783 and later from 791 until his death in 842. Upon his death, Nepotian, a family member of undetermined relation, attempted to usurp the crown in place of the fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_II_of_Asturias
2025-04-05T18:25:45.196685
1669
Amarasimha
thumb|Cover of a modern copy of Amara kosha Amarasimha (IAST: , ) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet from ancient India, of whose personal history hardly anything is known. He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Xuanzang, this is the Chan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarasimha
2025-04-05T18:25:45.218167
1676
Alfonso XII
| coronation = 14 January 1875 | predecessor = Amadeo I (1873) | successor = Alfonso XIII | spouses = * }} | issue = | full name = Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo de Borbón y Borbón | issue-link = #Marriages | house = Bourbon | father = Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cá...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XII
2025-04-05T18:25:45.292831
1677
Alfonso XIII
| reign-type = Reign | succession = King of Spain | cor-type = Enthronement | coronation = 17 May 1902 | predecessor = Alfonso XII | successor = Niceto Alcalá-Zamora <small>(President of Spain, 1931)</small> <br>Juan Carlos I <small>(King of Spain, 1975)</small> | regent = Maria Christina (1886–1902) | birth_date | bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII
2025-04-05T18:25:45.344000
1679
Alfonso the Battler
| coronation | predecessor Peter I | successor = Ramiro II of Aragon<br>García Ramírez of Navarre | succession1 = Emperor of All Spain }} | reign1 = 11097 September 1134 | predecessor1 = Alfonso VI | successor1 = Alfonso VII |regent1 = Urraca (1109–1126) |regent2 Alfonso VII (1126–1134) |reg-type1 = Co-monarch |reg-typ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_the_Battler
2025-04-05T18:25:45.396620
1680
Amaryllis
<!-- DO NOT ADD IMAGES OF 'Amaryllis' the ornamental South American flower which is genus Hippeastrum, Not Amaryllis --> Amaryllis () is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae). It is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species. The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis
2025-04-05T18:25:45.424042
1683
Alfonso III of Aragon
| succession = King of Aragon and Valencia<br />Count of Barcelona | reign November 1285 – 18 June 1291 | coronation = 2 February 1286, Valencia<br />9 April 1286, Zaragoza | predecessor = Peter III | successor = James II | house = House of Barcelona | father = Peter III of Aragon | mother = Constance II of Sicily | b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_III_of_Aragon
2025-04-05T18:25:45.463381
1684
Alfonso IV of Aragon
* }} | issue = | house = House of Barcelona | father = James II of Aragon | mother = Blanche of Anjou | birth_date = 2 November 1299 | birth_place = Naples | death_date = 24 January 1336 (aged 36) | death_place = Barcelona }} Alfonso IV (2 November 1299 – 24 January 1336), called the Kind (also the Gentle or the Nic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_IV_of_Aragon
2025-04-05T18:25:45.504050
1685
Amasis II
|reign=570–526 BCE |dynasty=26th dynasty |predecessor=Apries |successor=Psamtik III |prenomenKhnem-ib-re<br />He Who Embraces the Heart of Re Forever |prenomen_hiero=<hiero>ra-W9-m-ib</hiero> |nomenIaḥmos Net-za<br />The Moon is Born, Son of Neith or Ahmose II was a pharaoh (reigned 570526 BCE) of the Twenty-sixth Dyna...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis_II
2025-04-05T18:25:45.533267
1686
Alfonso V of Aragon
| succession = King of Aragon | reign = 2 April 141627 June 1458 | predecessor = Ferdinand I | successor = John II | succession1 = King of Naples | reign1 = 2 June 144227 June 1458 | predecessor1 = René | successor1 = Ferdinand I | issue = Ferdinand I of Naples (illegitimate) | issue-link = #Family | issue-pipe = among...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_V_of_Aragon
2025-04-05T18:25:45.562373
1687
Amathus
|type |part_of |length |width |area |height |builder |material |built |abandoned |epochs |cultures |dependency_of |occupants |event |excavations |archaeologists |condition |ownership |management Cyprus Department of Antiquities |public_access = yes |website |notes }} Amathus or Amathous () was an a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amathus
2025-04-05T18:25:45.588420
1688
Alphons
Alphons (Latinized Alphonsus, Adelphonsus, or Adefonsus) is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Hispanic and Portuguese roya...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphons
2025-04-05T18:25:45.618079
1689
Alfonso I
Alfonso I may refer to: Alfonso I of Asturias (739–757), king of Asturias Afonso I of Portugal (1094–1185), king of Portugal Alfonso Jordan (1103–1148), count of Toulouse Alfonso I of Aragon (1104–1134), known as Alfonso the Battler, king of Aragon and Navarre Alfonso I, Duke of Gandia (1332–1412) Alfonso V of Aragon ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_I
2025-04-05T18:25:45.648943
1690
Amati
thumb|upright=0.85|This Andrea Amati violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence Amati (, ) is the last name of a family of Italian violin makers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amati
2025-04-05T18:25:45.686925
1691
Alfonso II
Alfonso II may refer to: Alfonso II of Asturias (791–842) Alfonso II of Aragon (1162–1196) Alfonso II, Count of Provence (1174–1209) Afonso II of Portugal (1185–1223), "the Fat" Alfonso, Count of Poitou (1220–1271), jure uxoris Alfonso II, Count of Toulouse Alfonso II, Duke of Gandia (–1422) Alfonso II of Naples (1448–...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_II
2025-04-05T18:25:45.705855
1692
Alfonso III
Alfonso III (Spanish) or Afonso III (Portuguese) may refer to: Alfonso III of Asturias (866–910), surnamed "the Great" Afonso III of Portugal (1210–1279) Alfonso III of Aragon (1285–1291) Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1628–1644) Afonso III of Kongo (1666–1667)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_III
2025-04-05T18:25:45.722399
1694
Alfonso IV
Alfonso IV may refer to: Alfonso IV of León (924–931) Afonso IV of Portugal (1291–1357) Alfonso IV of Aragon (1327–1336) Alfonso IV of Ribagorza (1332–1412) Alfonso IV d'Este (1634–1662), Duke of Modena and Regg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_IV
2025-04-05T18:25:45.724732
1695
Amazons
found in Italy, 350–325 BC]] or Hippolyta) or "Armed Venus", by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert, 1860, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.]] The Amazons (Ancient Greek: , singular ; in Latin , ) were a people in Greek mythology, portrayed in a number of ancient epic poems and legends, such as the Labours of Heracles,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons
2025-04-05T18:25:45.775174
1696
Alfonso V
Alfonso V (Spanish), Afonso V (Portuguese), Alfons V (Catalan) or Alphonse V (French) may refer to: Alfonso V of León (999–1028) Alfonso V of Aragon (1416–1458), The Magnanimous Afonso V of Portugal (), The African Afonso V of Kongo ()
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_V
2025-04-05T18:25:45.778451
1697
Ambergris
Ambergris ( or ; ; ), ambergrease, or grey amber is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales. Freshly produced ambergris has a marine, fecal odor. It acquires a sweet, earthy scent as it ages, commonly likened to the fragrance of isopropyl alc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
2025-04-05T18:25:45.792308
1698
Ambiorix
}} Ambiorix (Gaulish "king of the surroundings", or "king-protector") ( 54–53 BC) was, together with Cativolcus, prince of the Eburones, leader of a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica), where modern Belgium is located. In the nineteenth century Ambiorix became a Belgian national hero because of his res...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiorix
2025-04-05T18:25:45.799828
1700
August Wilhelm Ambros
August Wilhelm Ambros (17 November 181628 June 1876) was an Austrian music historian, critic and composer of Czech descent. Life He was born in Mýto, Rokycany District, Bohemia. (1773–1850), the musical archaeologist and collector. Ambros studied at the University of Prague From 1850 onwards, he became well known as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilhelm_Ambros
2025-04-05T18:25:45.805945
1701
Amazon River
| name_other = , | image = Amazon River ESA387332.jpg | image_size = 250 | image_caption = Satellite image of the Amazon Delta | map = Amazonrivermap.svg | map_size = 250 | map_caption = Amazon River and its drainage basin | pushpin_map | pushpin_map_size 250 | pushpin_map_caption | subdivision_type1 Country | subdivi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
2025-04-05T18:25:45.918347
1702
Alfred of Beverley
Alfred of Beverley was an English chronicler, and sacrist of the collegiate church of St John the Evangelist and St John of Beverley wrote a history of Britain and England in nine chapters (c. 1148- c.1151) from its supposed foundation by the Trojan Brutus, down to the death of Henry I in 1135. Alfred's chief sources, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_of_Beverley
2025-04-05T18:25:45.923027
1710
April 22
Events Pre-1600 *1500 &ndash; Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil). *1519 &ndash; Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. *1529 &ndash; Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_22
2025-04-05T18:25:45.988241
1711
August 31
Events Pre-1600 *1056 &ndash; After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. *1057 &ndash; Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year. *1218 &ndash; Al-Kamil becomes sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty. *1314 &ndash; Kin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_31
2025-04-05T18:25:46.083912
1714
Autpert Ambrose
|death_date=784 |feast_day=19 July |venerated_in= Catholic Church<br />Eastern Orthodox Church |image|caption |birth_place= Likely in Provence |death_place= Italy |titles= Abbot of San Vincenzo al Volturno |beatified_date|beatified_place |beatified_by|canonized_date |canonized_place|canonized_by |attributes|patronage ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autpert_Ambrose
2025-04-05T18:25:46.091646
1715
Abu Bakr
| title = <br /> | image = 20131203 Istanbul 091.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Calligraphic seal featuring Abu Bakr's name, on display in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul | succession = 1st Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate | reign = 8 June 63223 August 634 | cor-type = Bayah | predecessor = Position established<br />(...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr
2025-04-05T18:25:46.123827
1716
Ambrose Traversari
Ambrogio Traversari, also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli (138620 October 1439), was an Italian monk and theologian who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century. He is honored as a saint by the Camaldolese Order. Biography Traversari was born near Forlì, in the village of Portico di Romagna in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Traversari
2025-04-05T18:25:46.133170
1717
Ambrosians
Ambrosians are members of one of the religious brotherhoods which at various times since the 14th century have sprung up in and around Milan, Italy. In the 16th century, a sect of Anabaptist Ambrosians was founded. Orders thumb|225px|Late Antique Mosaic of Saint Ambrose (~337-397) in Sant'Ambrogio church, Milan, Lomba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosians
2025-04-05T18:25:46.145893
1718
Ambrosiaster
Ambrosiaster or Pseudo-Ambrose is the name given to the unknown author of a commentary on the epistles of Saint Paul, written some time between 366 and 384AD. Attempts to identify Ambrosiaster with known authors has continued, but with no success. Because Augustine cites Ambrosiaster's commentary on Romans 5:12 under...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosiaster
2025-04-05T18:25:46.156114
1719
Ambrosius Aurelianus
thumb|upright|Illustration of Emrys Wledig from a 15th-century manuscript of Brut y Brenhinedd (the Historia Regum Britanniae translated into Welsh) Ambrosius Aurelianus (; Anglicised as Ambrose Aurelian and called Aurelius Ambrosius in the Historia Regum Britanniae and elsewhere) was a war leader of the Romano-Britis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosius_Aurelianus
2025-04-05T18:25:46.191744
1722
Ammon
332 BC | event1 = Battle of Qarqar against the Assyrians | date_event1 = 853 BC | event_pre | date_pre | event_post = Rabbat Ammon renamed to Philadelphia | date_post = 248–282 BC | image_flag | flag | flag_type | image_coat | symbol_type | symbol_type_article | image_map = Kingdoms around Israel 830 map.svg | imag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammon
2025-04-05T18:25:46.208767
1723
Ammonius Hermiae
AD|birth_placeAlexandria|school_traditionNeoplatonism|death_date517–526 AD|familyHermias (father)<br>Aedesia (mother)<br>Heliodorus of Alexandria (brother)}}Ammonius Hermiae (; ; – between 517 and 526) was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria in the eastern Roman empire during Late Antiquity. A Neoplatonist, he was the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonius_Hermiae
2025-04-05T18:25:46.217403
1724
Ammonius Saccas
Ammonius Saccas (; ; 175 AD243 AD) was a Hellenistic Platonist self-taught philosopher from Alexandria, generally regarded as the precursor of Neoplatonism or one of its founders. He is mainly known as the teacher of Plotinus, whom he taught from 232 to 243. Others have asserted that this is a misreading of "Sakkas" fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonius_Saccas
2025-04-05T18:25:46.247540
1726
Book of Amos
The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh and the second in the Greek Septuagint. The Book of Amos has nine chapters. According to the Bible, Amos was an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, and was active BC during the reign of Jeroboam II while Uzzi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Amos
2025-04-05T18:25:46.265302
1727
Amphipolis
|location = Macedonia, Greece |type = Settlement }} Amphipolis (; ) was an important ancient Greek polis (city), and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen. It gave its name to the modern municipality of Amphipoli, in the Serres regional unit of northern Greece. Amphipolis was originally a colony ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipolis
2025-04-05T18:25:46.276110
1728
Amram
<br />(Arabic: Islam)<br /><br />(Arabic: Christianity) | known_for = Father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam in the Book of Exodus | spouse = Jochebed | children = | parents = | relatives = }} In the Book of Exodus, Amram (; "The people are exalted"}}) is the husband of Jochebed and father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amram
2025-04-05T18:25:46.292219