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He is a childhood friend, and the first love, of Dagny Taggart. A child prodigy of exceptional talents, Francisco was dubbed the "climax" of the d'Anconia line, an already prestigious Argentine family of skilled industrialists. He was a classmate of John Galt and Ragnar Danneskjöld and student of both Hugh Akston and Robert Stadler.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Ancona in the Marche region of Italy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
1517: Francisco Hernández de Córdoba lands on the Yucatán Peninsula; 1519: Founding of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz ; 1519: Álvarez de Pineda explores the Gulf Coast of the United States; 1519: Founding of Panama City by Pedro Arias Dávila; 1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
The March of Ancona (Italian: Marca Anconitana or Anconetana) was a frontier march centred on the city of Ancona and later Fermo then Macerata in the Middle Ages. [1] Its name is preserved as an Italian region today, the Marche, and it corresponds to almost the entire modern region and not just the Province of Ancona.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Portrait of Cyriacus, fresco, 1459 [1] Portrait of Cyriacus, relief carving [1] [2]. Cyriacus of Ancona or Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli (31 July 1391 – 1452) was a restlessly itinerant Italian humanist and antiquarian who came from a prominent family of merchants in Ancona, a maritime republic on the Adriatic.
The artistic history of the republic of Ancona has always been influenced by maritime relations with Dalmatia and the Levant. [15] [16] Its major medieval monuments show a union between Romanesque and Byzantine art. Among the most notable are the Duomo, with a Greek cross and Byzantine sculptures, and the church of Santa Maria di Portonovo. [15]
San Francisco Open Shop Campaign began. [26] 1916 (United States) Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916 against Standard Oil continued. [26] Thomas Mooney (1882-1942), American socialist 22 July 1916 (United States) A bomb was set off during a "Preparedness Day" parade in San Francisco, killing 10 and injuring 40 more.