By 1557, the Portuguese gained a permanent base in China at Macau, which they held until 1999.

Port Laoise or Portlaoise (), historically also known as Maryborough from 1557 until 1929, is the county town ( capital / administrative centre ) of County Laois in the Midlands region of Ireland.

According to T. Chandler, Memphis had some 30, 000 inhabitants and was by far the largest settlement worldwide from the time of its foundation until around 2250 BCE and from 1557 to 1400 BCE.

He was invited to Geneva in 1557, and to England again in 1561, but declined both invitations, maintaining, however, a constant correspondence with Bishop John Jewel and other English prelates and reformers until his death at Zürich on 12 November 1562.

For many years Braunsberg was not able to directly attend Hanseatic meetings ; it was not until 1557 that representatives attended session in Lübeck again.

Normalized trade and relations between Portugal and the Ming Dynasty would not resume until the late 1540s and the 1557 establishment of Portuguese rule over Macau.

He reigned from June 9, 1526 until September 27, 1557, at the end of the Sengoku period.

On 9 January 1558 he was appointed treasurer of the forces sent to the relief of Calais and was chosen as knight of the shire to represent Northamptonshire in the parliament meeting in January 1557 ; after this he represented that constituency eight times until his death.

The Band can trace its origins back to 1557 at the Battle of St. Quentin, although it was not made ' official ' until 1762.

Thrown into prison, he hid the jeweled reliquary in his cell, where it remained until its rediscovery in 1557.

Although illegal trade continued thereafter, official relations between the Portuguese and the Ming court would not improve until the 1540s, culminating in the Ming court's consent in 1557 which allowed Portugal to establish Macau as their trading base in China.

Though the metal was used by pre-Columbian peoples, the first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 in the writings of the Italian humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger ( 1484 – 1558 ) as a description of a mysterious metal found in Central American mines between Darién ( Panama ) and Mexico (" up until now impossible to melt by any of the Spanish arts ").

** Anne of Cleves survived her marriage to Henry VIII until her death 16 July 1557, but since her marriage had been annulled 9 July 1540, she was not considered a queen dowager.

During the rule of the Ottoman Empire ( 1463 – 1878 ), changes to the main trade routes sidelined the town in Bosnian affairs, except during a brief period until 1557, when Zenica was the residence of the Ottoman Qadi of Brod.

The Serbian Patriarchate established in 1557 had a considerable part of the Ottoman Empire under its jurisdiction until it was taken over by the Greek Phanariotes in the 18th century.

She was also the Regent of Portugal during the minority of her grandson King Sebastian of Portugal from 1557 until 1562.

She then served as the regent of Portugal from 1557 until 1562.

It can be noted that from 2 August 1556 until 14 January 1557 there seems to be no recorded ' burnings ' or martyr deaths.

After the murder of their father Mohammed ash-Sheikh in 1557 and the following struggle for power, the two brothers Ahmad al-Mansur and Abd al-Malik had to flee their elder brother Abdallah al-Ghalib ( 1557 – 1574 ), leave Morocco and stay abroad until 1576.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

Not until the words had been spoken did Abel suddenly see the old house and the insistent sea, and feel his contrition blotted out in one shameful moment of covetousness.

This filly is another Adios that wants to trot, and trot she did until forced to do otherwise.

I did not rest until I had tracked the mystery down.

He never rested until he discovered who the culprit was, and when he did, he vowed vengeance on Viola Lake if ever the chance came his way.

Five subjects ( 12% ) did not change until they had been told that some people have something happen to their arm, what that something was, and also were given a demonstration.

Since the complicated process of establishing new communes and reviewing the rudimentary plan left by the French did not even begin until the fall of 1957, this goal appears somewhat ambitious.

For what I express in my remark is something going on in me at the time, and that of course did not exist until I did come on the scene.

This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

The packing efficiency, F.R., of fiber plates did not receive much attention in the literature, probably as it is high for the larger fibers generally used, until rather recently.

In April came a rapid thaw that produced high waters which did not recede until mid-June.

Nor have we remembered that in the melting pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi-isolated ethnic, regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material.

In fact, he did not think about Jerry Burton at all until he entered his living room and closed the door behind him.

Not until long after the war -- 1950, in fact -- did they get a hint of the reason.

Then she continued with energy, `` I myself did not see her until a week after she had run off to find the father.

Anyway, I did not see her until two weeks after the refugee hanged himself.

But she did not move, taking the words and the sticks in that old defiance of her extreme youth until suddenly Pile of Clouds came howling among them, swinging a great bullhide whip.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

However, it did not come into general use until Joseph Greenberg ( 1963 ) formally proposed its adoption.

However, these scripts either count di-and tri-graphs as separate letters, as Spanish did with ch and ll until recently, or uses diacritics like Slovak č.