* 1528 – Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer

St. Ambrose, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane.

He lived in the small town of San Francisco de Paula, located very close to the Company ’ s Modelo Brewery for Hatuey beer at el Cotorro.

In 1836, the first armed uprising for independence took place in Puerto Príncipe ( Camagüey Province ), led by Francisco de Agüero and Andrés Manuel Sánchez.

Saturn Devouring His Son, from the Black Paintings series by Francisco de Goya, 1819

From then on, the long independence struggle was led mainly by Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander in neighboring Venezuela.

The Colombian Conservative Party, founded in 1849, traces its origins to opponents of General Francisco de Paula Santander's 1833-37 administration.

Cortés's account is supported by the historian Francisco López de Gómara.

Cocoa is also grown in the Cibao Valley around San Francisco de Macoris.

Rice is grown around Monte Cristi & San Francisco de Macoris.

In 2004, a multidisciplinary team of academics from Complutense University, led by Francisco Parra Luna, Manuel Fernández Nieto and Santiago Petschen Verdaguer, deduced that the village was that of Villanueva de los Infantes.

In July 1604, Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha ( known as Don Quixote, Part I ) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum.

A second edition was produced with additional copyrights for Aragon and Portugal, which publisher Francisco de Robles secured.

Diego de Almagro, ( c. 1475 – July 8, 1538 ), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo ( The Elder ), was a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro.

In an attempt to honor Pizarro before leaving, Almagro refounded the native city of Quito as " San Francisco de Quito " in August 1534.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

* Notable draftsmen of the 19th century include Paul Cézanne, Aubrey Beardsley, Jacques Louis David, Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon, Edgar Degas, Théodore Géricault, Francisco Goya, Jean Ingres, Odilon Redon, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier, and Vincent van Gogh.

Hopper's funeral took place on June 3, 2010 at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.

La cometa, 1777 – 1778, one of List of Francisco Goya's tapestry cartoons | Goya's tapestry cartoons

Francisco de Goya's Witches ' Sabbath ( 1789 ) | Witches Sabbat ( 1789 ), which depicts the Devil flanked by Satanic witches.

In 1633, the year the larger set was published, Lorraine had been invaded by the French in the Thirty Years War and Callot's vision still stands with Francisco Goya's Los Desastres de la Guerra ( The Disasters of War ), which was influenced by Callot, as among the most powerful artistic statements of the inhumanity of war.

Francisco Goya's La Cometa, depicting a ( foreground left ) man smoking an early quasi-cigarette.

Francisco Goya | Goya's The Madhouse | Madhouse, 1812-1819

Francisco Goya's The Nude Maja ( 1797 ) has been considered as probably the first European painting to show woman's pubic hair, though others had hinted at it.

Francisco Goya's Charles IV of Spain and His Family references Las Meninas, but is less sympathetic towards its subjects than Velázquez's portrait.

Compare to Goya's: Image: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 045. jpg | May tree.

That war began on the night of 2 May, immortalized by Francisco Goya's painting The Charge of the Mamelukes.

There is also some similarity to Francisco Goya's La maja desnuda ( c. 1800 ).

Contemporary reviews compared it to Francisco de Goya's La maja desnuda and Édouard Manet's Olympia.

This was the subject of one of Francisco de Goya's famous aquatint prints titled Gracias a la Almorta (" Thanks to the Grasspea "), depicting poor people surviving on a porridge made from grasspea flour, one of them lying on the floor, already crippled by it.

From April-June 2003, Jake and Dinos Chapman held a solo show at Modern Art Oxford entitled The Rape of Creativity in which " the enfants terribles of Britart, bought a mint collection of Goya's most celebrated prints-and set about systematically defacing them " The Francisco Goya prints were his Disasters of War set of 80 etchings.

The final fight of Mollà and Bardem on their knees is reminiscent of Francisco de Goya | Goya's Club Fight.

The track " Saturn " deals with Jamie Stewart's frustration with then president George W. Bush and was inspired by Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, while the track " Bog People " was written during a bout of sadness Stewart experienced while sitting alone on a coach during a storm.

This densely tree-lined, wide and centric avenue is a landmark for the city residents and the location of important cultural and tourist spots in the city, including the so-called Golden Triangle of Art, which encompasses three museums: the Prado Museum ( with highlights such as Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas and Francisco de Goya's La maja vestida and La maja desnuda ), the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum ( housing a collection that spans eight centuries of European painting ), and the Reina Sofia Museum ( where Pablo Picasso's Guernica hangs, among a collection of 20th century art ).

Starting in week 13 of the 2006 season, the Saints wore black pants with the black jerseys against the San Francisco 49ers, and in a Week 16 game in The Meadowlands against the New York Giants ( a 30 – 7 Saints win ), the Saints wore the black pants with their road white jerseys.

Later, Spade is visited by Joel Cairo, who offers Spade $ 5, 000 if he can retrieve a figurine of a black bird that has recently arrived in San Francisco.

Roughly a week later, discouraged at having been unable to locate Stills and ready to depart for San Francisco, they were stuck in traffic on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles when Stills, Furay and Friedman, sitting in their white van, recognized Young's black 1953 Pontiac hearse, which happened to be passing by in the opposite direction.

The team's colors ( orange and black ) are the same colors worn by the National League's Giants, both in New York and San Francisco.

Analyzing the " racial masquerade " that was involved in creation of a white " melting pot " culture through the stereotyping and imitation of black and other non-white cultures in the early 20th century, historian Michael Rogin has commented: " Repudiating 1920s nativism, these films discusses The Jazz Singer, Old San Francisco ( 1927 ), Whoopee!

However, the first club to accept a black player was not Vasco, but Bangu in 1905, with Francisco Carregal.

The El Niño Jesús and San Francisco barrios and filled with very winding alleyways over black volcanic rock, called pedregal, from an ancient eruption of Xitle.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Baba did an extensive series of paintings of Harlequins and " Mad Kings ",; most of the latter remained in the artist's personal collection until his death, much as with Francisco Goya and his " black paintings ".

On the heels of that article, San Francisco Chronicle contributing writer Frank Leon Roberts published " Stereotypes and Sexual Orientation: The ' down-low ' – Coming out your own way in black clubs " in the newspaper's July 23, 2003 issue.

Programs and departments of African American studies were first created in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of inter-ethnic student and faculty activism at many universities, sparked by a five month strike for black studies at San Francisco State.

In February 1968, San Francisco State hired sociologist Nathan Hare to coordinate the first black studies program and write a proposal for the first Department of Black Studies ; the department was created in September 1968 and gained official status at the end of the five-months strike in the spring of 1969.

* 1984: Leontine Kelly, the first black woman bishop of a major religious denomination in the United States, is elected head of the United Methodist Church in the San Francisco area.

According to a San Francisco Weekly newspaper account, citing no sources but based largely on interviews with two former political allies of White, he quit the force after reporting another officer for beating a handcuffed black suspect.

Charles Sullivan was a mid-20th century black entrepreneur and businessman in San Francisco who owned the master lease on the Fillmore Auditorium.

Arriving at the San Francisco International Airport, Christophe's mysterious employer, Yao Ling, is informed, by his assistant Sona, that Christophe has been attacked and that Fait and his gang have taken the black diamonds.

In 1903, Young served as captain of a black company at the Presidio of San Francisco.

* Leviathan ( band ), a solo artist black metal band from San Francisco

" After his discharge, he became involved with black radicals in San Francisco, California and later joined the New York Black Panthers.

For example, Maya breaks the race barrier to become the first black streetcar operator in San Francisco, and responds assertively to the demeaning treatment by her white employer Mrs. Cullinan.

* In the later part of the 2010 MLB Season, closer Brian Wilson of the San Francisco Giants, along with teammate Sergio Romo grew playoff beards and refused to shave it off until the season was over ( Wilson also dyed his beard black ).

On December 13, 1973, Agnos, who was then a member of the California Commission on Aging, was attending a meeting in the largely black public housing project on Potrero Hill in San Francisco to discuss building a government-funded health clinic in the area.

On hearing that the bowling alley was to be removed from the program, John Elberling, of the Tenants and Owners Development Corporation ( TODCO ), testifying at a San Francisco Development Agency ( SFRA ) hearing stated: " That's your fun, to go to gala openings at the Museum of Modern Art and the galleries, dress up in black tie and evening gowns, enjoy the boutique wines and rub shoulders with the City's social elite.

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