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2 days ago · Catherine was born at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa as the second surviving daughter of John, 8th Duke of Braganza, and his wife, Luisa de Guzmán. Following the Portuguese Restoration War , her father was acclaimed King John IV of Portugal on 1 December 1640.
2 days ago · Albuquerque, New Mexico – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque; Alburgh, Vermont – Ira Allen (landowner) Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army; Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner) Alden, Iowa – Henry Alden (settler)
4 days ago · On 24 February 1563, Francis, Duke of Guise was assassinated by the Huguenot Jean de Poltrot during the Siege of Orléans. His death represents a critical turning point in the French Wars of Religion.
2 days ago · Benito Juárez was born on March 21, 1806, in San Pablo Guelatao, a Zapotec-speaking hamlet in Sierra de Ixtlán (renamed the Sierra de Juárez on July 30, 1857) in Mexico’s southeastern state of Oaxaca. He died in the National Palace on July 18, 1872, as President of the Republic, an office he had occupied since January 1858, when, as ...
2 days ago · Beatriz Palomo Lewin, “La población africana en el Reino de Guatemala, 1723–1773”, in Rutas de la esclavitud en Africa y América Latina, Rina Cáceres, ed. (San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001), 195–209; Lowell Gudmundson “Los Afro-Guatemaltecos a fines de la Colonia: Las haciendas dominicas de Amatitlán y de San Gerónimo,” in Rutas de la esclavitud en ...
3 days ago · Belynne Stelmane, also known as Duke Stelmane, is a character mentioned in Baldur's Gate 3. She can not be interacted with directly by the party, but appears in cutscenes and plays an important role in several areas of the game's story.
5 days ago · April 1544, 1-10. 1 April. R. O. 279. [The Privy Council] to Wotton. Enclose copy of letters to the King from Mr. Vaughan and Thomas Chamberlayn, showing that Mons. de Bures is yet uncertain where his men are to be levied. The Emperor promised the services of Mons. de Bures with the bands he had; and, afterwards, the Viceroy, being here ...
