* 1527 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer ( d. 1598 )

The speculation that continents might have ' drifted ' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596.

Abraham Ortelius, Theodor Christoph Lilienthal ( 1756 ), Alexander von Humboldt ( 1801 and 1845 ), Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, and others had noted earlier that the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean ( most notably, Africa and South America ) seem to fit together.

An island called " Don Garcia " appears on the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius ( Antwerp 1570 ), together with " Dos Compagnos ", slightly to the north.

Europe depicted by Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1595

* 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.

The ocean was mapped by Abraham Ortelius ; he called it Maris Pacifici because of Ferdinand Magellan, who sailed the Pacific during his circumnavigation from 1519 to 1522 and said that it was much more calm than the Atlantic.

Maris Pacifici by Abraham Ortelius | Ortelius ( 1589 ).

* June 28 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer ( b. 1527 )

* The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem ; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.

Map of Ancient Thrace made by Abraham Ortelius, in 1585.

Antioch as seen by Abraham Ortelius.

* The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.

* Abraham Ortelius becomes geographer to Philip II of Spain.

1570 world map by Abraham Ortelius.

* May 20 – Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.

* April 14 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer ( d. 1598 )

It was taken up by his followers, the French cosmographer Oronce Fine in his world map of 1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerard Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570.

A section of a map from the 1584 edition of Abraham Ortelius ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Additamentum III showing the name C. de Cañareal

Mercator took the word atlas to describe a collection of maps, and encouraged Abraham Ortelius to compile the first modern world atlas – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum – in 1570.

Glendalough features on the 1598 map " A Modern Depiction of Ireland, One of the British Isles " by Abraham Ortelius as " Glandalag ".

Map of the northern region ( including some fantasy islands ) by Abraham Ortelius, ca.

In 1577, with the encouragement of Abraham Ortelius, Camden began his great work Britannia, a topographical and historical survey of all of Great Britain and Ireland.

Detail of Abraham Ortelius ' 1585 map of Iceland showing Hekla in eruption.

Abraham Lincoln consistently made preserving the Union the central goal of the war, though he increasingly saw slavery as a crucial issue and made ending it an additional goal.

David A. Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch ( 1978 ), identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise to made by God to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Christadelphians believe that he will return to the earth in person to set up the Kingdom of God in fulfilment of the promises made to Abraham and David.

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

The two powerful groups making up the community — the priestly families who controlled the Temple and who traced their foundation-myth to Moses and the wilderness wanderings, and the major landowning families who made up the " elders " and who traced their own origins to Abraham, who had " given " them the land — were in conflict over many issues, and each had its own " history of origins ", but the Persian promise of greatly increased local autonomy for all provided a powerful incentive to cooperate in producing a single text.

The formal discovery of the element was made in 1895 by two Swedish chemists, Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langlet, who found helium emanating from the uranium ore cleveite.

This was followed by Abraham Darby, who made great strides using coke to fuel his blast furnaces at Coalbrookdale in 1709.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

God made a covenant with Abraham and the substance of the promise was the coming of Christ.

I shall endeavour to persuade you, that He who is said to have appeared to Abraham, and to Jacob, and to Moses, and who is called God, is distinct from Him who made all things, I mean numerically, not in will.

Some supporters of infant baptism argue that circumcision is the sign of the covenant God made with Abraham and should be received by all the members of his covenant.

After another win at the Battle of Chattanooga in late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made him lieutenant general and commander of all of the Union Armies.

) accept fully the claims that the Kabbalah's teachings are in essence a revelation from God to the Biblical patriarch Abraham, Moses and other ancient figures, but were never printed and made publicly available until the time of the Zohar's medieval publication.

* March 6 – While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln made a speech defending the right to strike.

* The Parting of Lot and Abraham, mosaic in the nave arcade, Church of Santa Maria Maggiore ( Rome ), is made.

In the year 1113 during the reign of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, according to Ali of Herat ( writing in 1173 ), a certain part over the cave of Abraham had given way, and " a number of Franks had made their entrance therein ".

Fleeing anti-Semitic Russian pogroms, Rickover, his mother and sister ( Americanized: " Fannie ") made passage to New York City in the United States in March 1906, joining Abraham who had made earlier, initial trips there beginning in 1897 to become established.

It was paid for and made by Yom-Tob ben Levi Athias ( the Spanish Marrano Jerónimo de Vargas, as typographer ) and Abraham ben Salomon Usque ( the Portuguese Jew Duarte Pinhel, as translator ), and was dedicated to Ercole II d ' Este.

In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.

* 1864: Junius, Jr., Edwin and John Wilkes Booth ( later the assassin of U. S. president Abraham Lincoln ) made their only appearance onstage together in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar on 25 November 1864, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.

Abraham prayed for his father to be forgiven by God, and although he continued to seek forgiveness, it was only because of a promise that he had made earlier to him.

At that point, however, " demand came to an unexpected halt ... No more copies were produced for many years, and if, as is claimed, Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe in 1862 as ' the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war ,' the work had effectively been out of print for many years.