Fulvius Ursinus compiled a fuller collection of Alcaic fragments, including a commentary, which was published at Antwerp in 1568.

Dürer journeyed with his wife and her maid via the Rhine to Cologne and then to Antwerp, where he was well received and produced numerous drawings in silverpoint, chalk and charcoal.

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.

Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had been Consul General in Argentina for both the Netherlands and Prussia, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Born, who had recently arrived from Antwerp.

However, due to Eisenhower's persistence, the pivotal supply port at Antwerp was successfully, albeit belatedly, opened in late 1944, and victory became a more distinct probability.

His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Brown was born in Calais and studied art in Antwerp under Egide Charles Gustave Wappers.

Henry VIII of England was short of gunpowder when he invaded France in 1544 AD and England needed to import gunpowder via the port of Antwerp.

This harpsichord is the work of two celebrated makers: originally constructed by Andreas Ruckers in Antwerp ( 1646 ), it was later remodeled and expanded by Pascal Taskin in Paris ( 1780 ).

Though there were craftsmen in several cities ( such as Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent ), the major handicraft center for this cordwain was Mechelen, where it was mentioned as early as 1504.

In the 16th century Antwerp was a commercial centre of Europe.

A center of Mannerist design was Antwerp during its 16th century boom.

Another problem was the decline of the Antwerp cloth trade.

The first okapi to arrive in North America was at the Bronx Zoo, via Antwerp, in 1937.

The first okapi born in captivity outside Congo was at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium in 1953 ; the first born in North America was at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois in 1959.

* " De formando studio " (= letter 38 Jacobus Barbireau of Antwerp on June 7, 1484, when Agricola was in Heidelberg: see the edition of the letters by Van der Laan / Akkerman, pp. 200 – 219 )

Orbison went to Europe where he was presented with an award and played a show in Antwerp where footage for the video for " You Got It " was filmed.

Alma-Tadema left Taeye ’ s studio in November 1858 returning to Leeuwarden before settling in Antwerp, where he began working with the painter Baron Jan August Hendrik Leys, whose studio was one of the most highly regarded in Belgium.

This painting created a sensation among critics and artists when it was exhibited that year at the Artistic Congress in Antwerp.

1863 was to alter the course of Alma-Tadema's personal and professional life: on 3 January his invalid mother died, and on 24 September he was married, in Antwerp City Hall, to Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, the daughter of Eugene Gressin Dumoulin, a French journalist living near Brussels.

The Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica of Henricus Hondius ( Antwerp 1630 ) repeats Wright's misreading of the name, which is then proliferated on all subsequent Dutch maps of the period, and to the present day.

After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures.

A common misbelief is that in late 13th century Bruges commodity traders gathered inside the house of a man called Van der Beurze, and in 1309 they became the " Brugse Beurse ", institutionalizing what had been, until then, an informal meeting, but actually, the family Van der Beurze had a building in Antwerp where those gatherings occurred ; the Van der Beurze had Antwerp, as most of the merchants of that period, as their primary place for trading.

The same year, he won the World Junior Chess Championship held at Antwerp, Belgium, scoring 6 / 7 to qualify for the final, then 8 / 9 in the final to win by a full point over Edmar Mednis.

The eye-witness Richard Clough, a Welsh Protestant merchant then in Antwerp, saw: " all the churches, chapels and houses of religion utterly defaced, and no kind of thing left whole within them, but broken and utterly destroyed, being done after such order and by so few folks that it is to be marvelled at.

He was to break the Allied front between Monschau and Losheimergraben, cross the Meuse River, and then capture Antwerp.

To escape arrest he again went abroad, and officiated as clergyman to the English residents at Antwerp and then at Middelburg.

Ortelius was born in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg ruled Seventeen Provinces.

Williams then went on to win the Open Gaz de France in Paris when Jelena Dokić withdrew from the final, and the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, defeating Henin in the final.

She then reached the final in Antwerp, defeating Clijsters and Myskina en route.

Jacob Le Maire was one of 22 children of Maria Walraven of Antwerp and Isaac Le Maire ( 1558 – 1624 ) of Tournai, who was then already a prosperous merchant in Antwerp.

Mauresmo then won her next two tournaments, the Open Gaz de France tournament in Paris ( defeating Mary Pierce in the final ) and the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp ( defeating Clijsters in the final ).

Henin then lost to Clijsters in the semifinals of the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp.

Before the Low Countries could be completely reconquered, a war between England and Spain ( the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )) broke out, forcing Spanish troops to halt their advances and leaving them in control of the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent, but without control of Antwerp, which was then arguably the most important port in the world.

Agrippa had to leave Antwerp in 1532 and he and his student then settled in Bonn, under the protection of prince-bishop Hermann von Wied.

I Corps Headquarters then took over administration of 21st Army Group's logistics area around the port of Antwerp, Belgium until the end of the war.

In what is known as the Antwerp Ceremony, the mayor of the city that organized the Games transfers a special Pan American Games flag to the president of PASO, who then passes it on to the mayor of the city hosting the next Pan American Games.

He then traveled to Antwerp, Rotterdam, Frankfurt and Strasbourg, which he reached by July 1554.

The Einsteins both left Zurich for Berlin in late March, on the way Einstein visited an uncle in Antwerp and then Ehrenfest and Lorentz in Leiden while Marić took a holiday with the children in Locarno, arriving in Berlin in mid-April.

The Bollandists oversaw the project, first in Antwerp and then in Brussels.

He then returned to Leuven, but the Eighty Years ' War soon drove him to take refuge via Antwerp to the Northern Netherlands, where, in 1579, the newly founded University of Leiden appointed him professor of history.