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La imprenta es un método mecánico destinado a reproducir textos e imágenes sobre papel, vitela, tela u otro material. En su forma clásica, consiste en aplicar una tinta, generalmente oleosa, sobre unas piezas metálicas para transferirla o grabarla por presión. -
Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine polymath of the Italian Renaissance. He was simultaneously a painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, botanist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet, and urban planner. He died accompanied by Francesco Melzi, to whom he bequeathed his projects, designs and paintings.
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It was a historical event that put an end to the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire -
Sculptor, painter, architect and poet, Michelangelo spent his life between Florence and Rome. He was closely linked to the Medici family, who were his most important patrons, and was commissioned to sculpt four tombs for them.
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The Catholic Monarchs were the last effective representatives of Dynasty Trastámara in the kingdom of Aragon and Castile.
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After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island on October 12, 1492, believing he has reached East Asia. -
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement of 1494 between Spain and Portugal to divide the world by means of an imaginary line in the center of the Atlantic Ocean. -
She was queen of Castile from 1504 to 1555, and of Aragon and Navarra, from 1516 to 1555, although from 1506 she did not exercise any effective power and from 1509 she lived locked up in Tordesillas, first by order of her father, Fernando el Católico, and later by order of his son, King Carlos I.
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uan Calvino, baptized with the name of Jehan Cauvin, Latinized as Calvinus, was a French theologian and philosopher, considered one of the authors and managers of the Protestant Reformation. The fundamental doctrines of later reformers would identify with him, calling these doctrines "Calvinism." -
The Questioning of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, better known as the Ninety-Five Theses, is a list of propositions for an academic debate written by Martin Luther -
Under his reign and that of his son and successor, Felipe II, Spain became the leading world power, arts and culture began its Golden Age and the vastest colonial empire seen up to then was formed.
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In 1534 Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy which defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head on earth of the Church of England, thereby severing ecclesiastical links with Rome. -
The Council of Trent was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church developed in discontinuous periods during twenty-five sessions between the years 1545 and 1563. It took place in Trento, a city in the north of present-day Italy, which was then a free imperial city governed by a prince-bishop.
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He became king of Spain in 1556, when his father abdicated. In 1561, Felipe II established his court in Madrid, which from then on became the Spanish capital. Two years later, he ordered the construction of the monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial to begin.
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The reign of Felipe III meant the maintenance of Spanish hegemony in the world, but its economic difficulties and the transfer of government to private or valid ones already predicted the decline of the Empire.
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, known as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish Baroque painter considered one of the greatest exponents of Spanish painting and a master of universal painting.
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Felipe IV signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in order to concentrate all the resources of the Spanish monarchy in the reconquest of the rebel kingdom: from this date, Spain was finally at peace with France, England and the Netherlands
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Of a sickly constitution, weak and of little mental capacity, until 1675 his mother exercised the regency, who entrusted the government to valid ones, the German Jesuit Nithard until 1669 and Fernando de Valenzuela.
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The War of the Spanish Succession was an international conflict that lasted from 1701 until the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, whose main cause was the death without issue of Carlos II. -
The French Revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1794. King Louis XVI needed more money, but had failed to raise more taxes when he had called a meeting of the Estates General. This instead turned into a protest about conditions in France.