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217 matches to Leo X
Defender of the Faith. 1521. Title conferred by Pope Leo X on Henry VIII. Withdrawn after Act of Supremacy. Reconfirmed by Parliament, 1544 for all succeeding monarchs.
Indulgence. 800 Pardon for sin in place of penance. Granted by church, 12C as reward to Crusaders. Sold by church, 1313-. Abuse by Leo X led to Reformation.
Leo X. 1475-1521. Pope 1513-. Excommunicated Luther. Depleted treasury.
Leo XIII. 1810-1903. Pope 1878-. Rerum Novarum 1891: right to private property. Ended opposition to scientific progress. Longest papal rule.
Medici. Merchant family. Ruled Florence 1434~1737. Patron of Italian Renaissance arts. Catherine. Marie. Popes Leo X, Clement VII, Leo XI.
Aboukir, Battle. Nelson defeats French fleet, 1798. Napoleon defeats Turks, 1799.
Alberti, Leon. 1404-72. Italian Renaissance Man. Artist, poet, geographer, mathematician.
Alexander I. 1777-1825. Russian Czar, 1801-. Liberal reformer. Defeated Napoleon. Holy Alliance.
Alfonso X (the Wise). 1221-84. King of León and Castile. Codified laws, first history of Spain.
Antony, Mark. c83-30BC. Caesar’s lieutenant. Triumvirate 43-32. Defeated at Actium with Cleopatra. Suicide.
Arc de Triomphe. Paris monument. Commissioned 1806 by Napoleon. Completed 1836.
Aspern-Essling, Battle. 1809. First important loss for Napoleon.
Augereau, Pierre. 1757-1816. Marshal under the Napoleonic Empire.
Aurignacian. Late Paleolithic art period.
Austerlitz, Battle. Moravia. Napoleon defeats Austrians and Russians, Dec 2, 1805. Peace with Austria.
Austro-Turkish War. 1682-99. Siege of Vienna. Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I drives Turks from Hungary.
Baekeland, Leo. 1863-1944. US: invented Bakelite 1909 (first plastic). Velox.
Banting, Frederick. 1891-1941. Canadian physician: discovered insulin with Best, MacLeod, 1921.
Bassano. 1796. Victory of Napoleon over the Austrians.
Bautzen, Battle. 1813. Napoleon defeats Prussians.
Baylen, Battle. 1808. Spanish mob defeats French army, humiliating Napoleon.
Bellarmine, St. Robert. 1542-1621. Italian Jesuit defender of RC church vs Protestantism, Copernican theory, heretics. Galileo.
Berlin Decree. 1806. Napoleon announces Continental System blockading Britain.
Bernstein, Leonard. 1918-90. US conductor/ composer. West Side Story 1957.
Black Hole of Calcutta. 1756. Small cell in which 123 of 146 British alledgedly died after being imprisoned by Bengalis.