Quotes About History

By "sea wolves" Pigafetta meant the sub-Antarctic sea lion or the sea elephant

edict of the Portuguese king, announced on November 13, 1504

Events moved on, and in July 1579, Elizabeth was nearly assassinated as she traveled on a barge along the Thames.

Magellan's expedition to the Spice Islands must not violate the treaty.

From 1500 to about 1550, not one book concerning Portuguese discoveries was published

he would be able to turn west toward the Spice Islands;

For four anxious years, from 1554 to 1558, he was the jure uxoris king of England

schooled in the royal tradition established by Prince Henry the Navigator. But he needed a sponsor.

On April 4, 1581, almost seven months after his return, she strode onto the deck of the Golden Hind at Deptford

By March 6, 1521, the fleet reached the island of Guam

Ten days later Magellan's fleet reached what is now called the Philippines

and lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.

In the Philippines, Magellan blundered into a confrontation with a combative local chieftain, Lapu Lapu.

On March 1, 1579, Drake caught sight of the Spanish treasure ship

Philip made the most of their wedding, bringing ten thousand soldiers with him to England in 180 ships.

But English Protestants rebelled. "Bloody Mary" ordered the execution of the conspirators

has even been suggested that Marco Polo never made it to China, despite his apparently firsthand descriptions of that region.

1200, Polo says, Genghis Khan sent word to Prester John to announce that he wished to marry the priest's daughter.

Beyond his library, Dee introduced crucial mathematical symbols such as +, –, and ÷ to England.

Elizabeth sat for a portrait designed to capture the grandeur of the occasion. In the painting

Magellan had a well-painted globe in which the entire world was depicted," wrote Bartolomé de las Casas

With this entirely factual approach, Pigafetta broke with a tradition that reached back to antiquity.

The quest began as early as 1419, when Prince Henry, the third son of João I and his English wife, Philippa

This was nearly the same mistake that Columbus had made over and over