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Year 1571 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the ... September 30 (12th day of 9th month of Genki) – In Japan, ...
Giovanni Pietro Contarini's History of the Events, which occurred from the Beginning of the War Brought against the Venetians by Selim the Ottoman, to the Day of the Great and Victorious Battle against the Turks was published in 1572, a few months after Lepanto. It was the first comprehensive account of the war, and the only one to attempt a ...
Painting of the Battle of Lepanto. Unknown artist, after a print by Martin Rota, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London "Lepanto" is a poem by G. K. Chesterton celebrating the victory of the Holy League in the Battle of Lepanto (1571) written in irregular stanzas of rhyming, roughly paeonic tetrameter couplets, often ending in a quatrain of four dimeter lines.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (/ s ɜːr ˈ v æ n t iː z,-t ɪ z / sur-VAN-teez, -tiz; [5] Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) [6] was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
October 7 – Naval Battle of Lepanto: Miguel de Cervantes's left arm is rendered useless; Venetian playwright Luigi Pasqualigo commands a galleon.; unknown dates. Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.
The coat of arms of Michel Eyquem, Lord of Montaigne. Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (/ m ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n / mon-TAYN; [4] French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; Middle French: [miˈʃɛl ejˈkɛm də mõnˈtaɲə]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592 [5]), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance.
16. "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” John F. Kennedy, Former U.S. President. 17. “Voting is not only our right—it is our power.”
John Barbour, publication year conjectural, The Bruce, written 1376, posthumously published [1]; George Colclough, The Spectacle to Repentance [1]; Robert Henryson The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, compylit in eloquent, & ornate scottis meter, translation in verse of Aesop's Fables, published in Edinburgh, Scotland; new edition of a work originally published in 1450; the title page ...