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* 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
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Hartmann Schedel ( 13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514 ) was a German physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press.
* Boalch, Donald H. ( 1995 ) Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440 – 1840, 3rd ed., with updates by Andreas H. Roth and Charles Mould, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-318429-X.
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After a short-lived period of independence under the Terzi family ( 1404 – 1409 ), Sforza imposed their rule ( 1440 – 1449 ) through their associated families of Pallavicino, Rossi, Sanvitale and Da Correggio.
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* 1440 – 1469: Under Moctezuma I, the Aztecs become the dominant power in Mesoamerica.
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* September 19 – John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Scottish peer ( b. 1440 )
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1440 and Prussian
In 1440 several western and eastern Prussian towns formed the Prussian Confederation, which led the revolt of Prussia against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in 1454.
The Prussian Confederation (, ) was an organization formed in 1440 by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia to oppose the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.
On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).
Towns which founded the Prussian Confederation on 14 March 1440:
In 1440, the gentry of Thorn formed the Prussian Confederation, and in 1454 rose with the Confederation against the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years ' War.
Allenstein joined the Prussian Confederation in 1440.
In 1440, Grudziądz joined the Prussian Confederation and formally asked the King of Poland, Casimir IV Jagiellon to join Poland.
In view of rising taxes, several local nobles and Hanseatic cities in 1440 established the Prussian Confederation at Kwidzyn ( Marienwerder ) protesting against the Order's internal and financial policies.
The rebellious Prussian Confederation was founded in Marienwerder on March 14, 1440.
Since march 31st, 1440 Starogard was a member of the Prussian Confederation.
In 1440 the town joined the Prussian Confederation.
* The Prussian Confederation, a league of cities formed in 1440 to resist taxes levied by the Teutonic Order
In March 1440, gentry ( mainly from Culmerland ) and the Hanseatic cities of Danzig, Elbing, Kneiphof, Thorn and other Prussian cities founded the Prussian Confederation to free themselves from the overlordship of the Teutonic Knights.
1440 and Confederation
Zürich was expelled from the Confederation from 1440 to 1450 due to a conflict over the territory of Toggenburg ( the Old Zürich War ).
It restored the original 13 members of the old Confederation and added 6 new cantons, two ( St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons ) having been formerly " associates ", and the four others being made up of the subject lands conquered at different times — Aargau ( 1415 ), Thurgau ( 1460 ), Ticino ( 1440, 1500, 1512 ), and Vaud ( 1536 ).
The station was launched in 1964 by Confederation Broadcasting, with the call letters CKPM at 1440 AM.
1440 and is
He also mentions that this flag, falling from the sky during the Russian campaign of King Valdemar II, is the very same flag that King Eric of Pomerania took with him when he left the country in 1440 after being deposed as King.
It was in Strasbourg in 1440 that Gutenberg is said to have perfected and unveiled the secret of printing based on his research, mysteriously entitled Kunst und Aventur ( art and enterprise ).
1440 ), or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the name of an inventor of a printing press from Haarlem.
If, as is widely thought, he is the author of the frescoes Stories of the Virgin and Story of Saint Stephen in the Cappella dell ' Assunta, Florence, then he would have visited nearby Prato sometime between 1435 and 1440.
The next notice is a statement in the Scotichronicon, composed by John of Fordun between 1377 and 1384, and revised by Walter Bower in about 1440.
Sir Donald McDuck, nicknamed " Black Donald " because of his foul temper, is said to have invented Golf, Hammer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440.
Printers generally have resolutions between 240 and 1440 pixels per inch ; in some printers the horizontal resolution is different from the vertical.
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There is also evidence of a cut and folded paper box from 1440.
It is a large boys ' school, with over 1, 300 pupils, and was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as " The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor ".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word pilcrow " apparently " originated in English as an unattested version of the French pelagraphe, a corruption of paragraph ; the earliest reference is c. 1440.
Bao ' en Temple is a well-preserved 15th century monastery complex built between 1440 and 1446 during Emperor Yingzong's reign ( 1427 – 64 ) in the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ).
Bytom is one of the oldest cities of Upper Silesia, having been known as Bitom in 1136 and Beuthen since 1440.
In a more complicated system such as a speaking clock, the voice artist usually doesn't actually record 1440 different announcements, one for each minute of the day, or even 60 ( one for each minute of the hour ), instead the announcement is re-assembled from fragments such as " minutes past " " eighteen " and " pm.
Charles is also a major character in Margaret Frazer's The Maiden's Tale, a historical mystery which gives a very sympathetic fictional account of a few weeks of his life in England in the autumn of 1439, shortly before his release in 1440.
In 1440, in the King's name, an invitation is said to have been sent to the young 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother, eleven-year-old David, to visit the king at Edinburgh Castle in November 1440.
Jesus ' side is pierced with a spear, Fra Angelico ( c. 1440 ), Dominican monastery of San Marco, Florence.
Blind Harry ( c. 1440 – 1492 ), also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace.
English usage of the term caraway dates back to at least 1440, and is considered by Skeat to be of Arabic origin, though Katzer believes the Arabic al-karawya ( cf.
Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is credited with first exposing the forgery with solid philological arguments in 1439 – 1440, although the document's authenticity had already been repeatedly contested since 1001.
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