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    Year 1559 (MDLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 15 – Elizabeth I of England...
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    François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots...
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  • Tokuhime (徳姫, November 11, 1559 – February 16, 1636), also known as Lady Toku (五徳姫, Gotokuhime) and Okazaki-dono (岡崎殿, Lady Okazaki) was a Japanese noble...
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    Henry II of France (category 1559 deaths)
    II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Duchess Claude...
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  • 1550s BC (redirect from 1559 BC)
    The 1550s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1559 BC to December 31, 1550 BC. The city of Mycenae, located in the northeast Peloponnesus, comes to...
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    Christian III of Denmark (category 1559 deaths)
    (12 August 1503 – 1 January 1559) reigned as King of Denmark from 1534 and King of Norway from 1537 until his death in 1559. During his reign, Christian...
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    NGC 1559 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Reticulum. It is also a Seyfert galaxy. Although it was originally thought to be a member of the...
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    Act of Uniformity 1558 was an Act of the Parliament of England, passed in 1559, to regularise prayer, divine worship and the administration of the sacraments...
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    The Anglo-French War was part of the Italian War of 1551–1559, and lasted from 1557 to 1559. Following the French defeat at the Battle of St. Quentin in...
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    Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis in April 1559 ended the Italian War of 1551–1559, the last of the Italian Wars (1494–1559). It consisted of several separate...
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    The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as...
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    Albert VII (German: Albrecht VII; 13 November 1559 – 13 July 1621) was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife...
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    Abyssinia. After the first Ajuran-Portuguese war, the Ottoman Empire would in 1559 absorb the weakened Adal Sultanate into its domain. This expansion furthered...
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    The Elizabeth Jonas of 1559 was the first large English galleon, built in Woolwich Dockyard from 1557 and launched in July 1559. The vessel's keel was...
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  • Events from the year 1559 in France Monarch – Henry II (until July 10), then Francis II The Ancient Diocese of Saint-Omer established. Catherine de Bourbon...
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  • Hope was a galleon of the English navy, built in 1559. She was rebuilt in 1583 "into the form of a galleass", and then again rebuilt from 1603 to 1604...
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    Francis in 1558, becoming queen consort of France from his accession in 1559 until his death in December 1560. Widowed, Mary returned to Scotland in August...
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    around 1559 a Dano-English Protestant alliance was considered, and to counter Sweden's proposal, King Frederick II proposed to Elizabeth in late 1559. For...
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    The Italian War of 1551–1559 began when Henry II of France declared war against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V with the intent of recapturing parts of Italy...
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    Ishida Mitsunari (category 1559 births)
    Ishida Mitsunari (石田 三成, 1559 – November 6, 1600) was a Japanese samurai and military commander of the late Sengoku period of Japan. He is probably best...
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    and keeping close to shore sacked a number of towns en route to Goa. In 1559 the Ottomans laid siege to Bahrain, which had been conquered by the Portuguese...
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    United Nations Security Council resolution 1559, adopted on 2 September 2004, after recalling resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982) and 1553 (2004)...
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    II d'Este (22 November 1533 – 27 October 1597) was Duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. He was a member of the House of Este. Alfonso was the elder son...
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    the Americas were key factors. Following the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis (1559), France renounced its claims in Italy. Some of the Italian states were under...
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    The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland...
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  • its distinctive "Anglican" identity. With the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559, the Protestant identity of the English and Irish churches was affirmed by...
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    Although LightSquared had applied for a license to operate in the 1525 to 1559 band as early as 2003 and it was put out for public comment, the FCC asked...
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  • William Barnes or Barne, Barneis or Berners (by 1533–59), of Fryerning and Thoby, Essex, was an English Member of Parliament. He was a Member (MP) of the...
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    Supremacy 1558 (1 Eliz. 1. c. 1), sometimes referred to as the Act of Supremacy 1559, is an Act of the Parliament of England, which replaced the original Act...
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