The oldest football still in existence, which is thought to have been made circa 1540, was discovered in the roof of Stirling Castle, Scotland, in 1981.

From certain indications in the latter and the evidence of some odd leaves discovered by David Laing, it has been concluded that there was an earlier Edinburgh edition, which has been ascribed to Thomas Davidson, printer, and dated c. 1540.

As a testament to the popularity of the city's majolica through the ages, on August 18, 2006, Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced that Canadian archaeologists had discovered the precise location of Canada's lost first colony of Charlesbourg-Royal, and that a fragment of a decorative Istoriato plate manufactured in Faenza between 1540 and 1550 was found there that could only have belonged to a member of the French aristocracy in the colony.

In 1540 John Leland reported that Sir Roger Bradshaigh had discovered a seam of cannel coal on his estate which could be burnt or carved by hand or machine into ornaments.

Thus a brass commemorative of Margaret Bulstrode ( 1540 ) at Hedgerley, on being removed from its position, was discovered to have been previously the memorial of Thomas Totyngton, abbot of St Edmundsbury ( 1312 ).

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado assembled an enormous expedition at Compostela in 1540 – 1542 to explore and find the mystical Seven Golden Cities of Cibola as described by Fray Marcos de Niza.

This was described by John Leland in 1540 as:

Morpeth was described, in 1540, by the royal antiquary John Leland, as " long and metely well-builded, with low houses ," and as " a far fairer town than Alnwick.

The local Mississippian culture, described by Hernando de Soto in 1540, had completely disappeared by 1560.

S. hispanica is described and pictured in the Mendoza Codex and the Florentine Codex, 16th century Aztec codices created between 1540 and 1585.

In 1715 Ralph Thoresby described it as a village four miles from Leeds and three from Otley, dating from 1540 and once part of the possessions of Kirkstall Abbey.

The play, written in Latin verse and completed at around 1540, was based on Absalom's revolt against his father David described in the Old Testament.

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's expedition described the Pueblo in 1540 as " one of the strongest places we have seen.

The 1541 followed the previous Commodore 1540 ( meant for the VIC-20 ).

Circa 1540 CE the Javanese, always alert for new weapons found the newly arrived Portuguese weaponry superior to that of the locally made variants.

Ignatius Loyola acknowledged that Cardinal Contarini was largely responsible for the papal approbation of the Society of Jesus, on September 27, 1540.

The king married a fourth time in 1540, to the German Anne of Cleves for a political alliance with her Protestant brother, the Duke of Cleves.

Although a wedding date was planned for March 1540, he remained reluctant and the wedding never took place.

In consequence of the bitter controversy with Luther that resulted, Agricola in 1540 left Wittenberg secretly for Berlin, where he published a letter addressed to Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, which was generally interpreted as a recantation of his obnoxious views.

The earliest experimental phase of Mannerism, known for its " anti-classical " forms, lasted until about 1540 or 1550.

Cromwell fell from favour and was arrested for treason in June 1540 ; one of the unlikely charges against him was that he had plotted to marry Mary himself.

See section 3 of the Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540, the 5 Eliz 1 c 9 ( An Act for the Punyshement of suche persones as shall procure or comit any wyllful Perjurye ) and the Perjury Act 1728.

Henry chose to blame Cromwell for the failed marriage, and ordered him beheaded on 28 July 1540.

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He returned to England in 1539, living briefing in Newbury, but on the execution of Thomas Cromwell ( who had been his friend and protector since 1527 ) in 1540, he was compelled again to go into exile and lived for a time at Tübingen, and, between 1543 and 1547, was a pastor and schoolmaster at Bergzabern ( now Bad Bergzabern ) in the Electorate of the Palatinate, and very poor.

In 1580, Minuit's family took refuge in the city of Wesel, which had become a haven for Protestants as early as 1540.

In September 1540, under orders from the conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, along with Hopi guides and a small group of Spanish soldiers, traveled to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon between Desert View and Moran Point.

He was subjected to a bill of attainder and executed for treason and heresy on Tower Hill on 28 July 1540.

People living around the Niger River were transported from these markets to the coast and sold at European trading ports in exchange for muskets ( matchlock between 1540 – 1606 but flintlock from then on ) and manufactured goods such as cloth or alcohol.

The Tudor gatehouse and astrological clock, made for Henry VIII in 1540 ( C on plan above ) Two of the Renaissance bas relief s by Giovanni di Maiano can be seen set into the brickwork.

The first Europeans to travel through central Alabama were Hernando de Soto and his expedition, who went through Ikanatchati and camped for one week in Towassa in 1540.

1540 – 1624 ), was a Member of Parliament for the county of Suffolk His title of Baronette became extinct when the last son to hold the title didn't produce a son English baronetcy.

However, its severity was reduced by an act of 1540, which retained the death penalty only for denial of transubstantiation, and a further act limited its arbitrariness.

It is believed to have been built c. 1540 for Richard Bel ( l ) ingham, twice High Sheriff of Sussex, whose initials are carved into a fireplace, and whose coat of arms adorns a period plaster ceiling.

When the monastery was dissolved in 1540 the local farmers continued making the cheese right up until the Second World War, during which most milk in the country was used for the making of " Government Cheddar ".

Elizabeth bore Sir Thomas three sons, Henry ( who died in early infancy ), Francis ( born in 1540 and took the surname of Darrell ), and Edward, who was later executed for his part in the Wyatt's Rebellion of 1554, led by his legitimate half-brother, Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger. Sir Thomas left Elizabeth properties in Dorset.

Nonablative lasers, such as the 585 nm pulsed dye laser, 1064 nm and 1320 nm Nd: YAG, or the 1540 nm Er: Glass are used as the standard laser therapy for hypertrophic scars and keloids.

In the fall of 1540, the Spanish Hernando de Soto expedition rested here for about one month during its exploration of the Southeast.

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

The Annals of Ulster which cover medieval Ireland between AD 431 to AD 1540 were written at Belle Isle on Lough Erne near Lisbellaw.

In 1540, Spain established the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which extended from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, and thus encompassed most of what is currently known as Central America, with the exception of British Honduras ( present-day Belize ).

A study of 1540 US adults found instead that levels of scientific literacy were correlated with the strength of opinion on climate change, but not on which side of the debate that they stood.

* Regimini militantis Ecclesiae was the papal bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540, which gave a first approval to the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty.

The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.

He concurrently worked on another book, the Commentary on Romans, which was published in March 1540.

Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (" The Courtier "), wrote in 1528: "... Another of the greatest painters in this world looks down on this art in which he is unequalled ..." while the biographer known as " Anonimo Gaddiano " wrote, c. 1540: " His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf ...".

English written lute music only began around 1540, however, the country produced numerous lutenists, of which John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) is perhaps the most famous.

Although Franciscus Vieta ( 1540 – 1603 ) gave the first notation of modern algebra, John Napier ( 1550 – 1617 ) invented logarithms, and Edmund Gunter ( 1581 – 1626 ) created the logarithmic scales ( lines, or rules ) upon which slide rules are based.

* Franciscus Vieta ( 1540 – 1603 ) published In Artem Analycitem Isagoge ( 1591 ), which gave the first symbolic notation of parameters in literal algebra.

Divination using playing cards is in evidence as early as 1540 in a book entitled The Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forlì which allows a simple method of divination, though the cards are used only to select a random oracle and have no meaning in themselves.

By 1523, a Karaite community, consisting of 10 families, is recorded as living in Hebron, It was from them that, in 1540, Rabbi Malkiel Ashkenazi bought a courtyard ( El Cortijo ) and the house of prayer which he converted to the Sephardi Abraham Avinu Synagogue.

A number of editions of the Vulgate also appeared from his presses, of which the principal are those of 1528, 1532, 1540 ( one of the ornaments of his press ), and 1546.

* the Rocca Paolina, a Renaissance fortress ( 1540 – 1543 ) of which only a bastion today is remaining.

On October 17, 1540, Francis ordered the Breton navigator to return to Canada to lend weight to a colonization project of which he would be " captain general ".

Luys Hernandez de Biedma, one of de Soto ’ s officers wrote of a group of men who made their way to what is now Tryon on May 21, 1540: " The next day, they went to Xuala which is a town on a plain between some rivers ; its chief was so well provisioned that he gave to the Christians however much they asked for: slaves, corn, little dogs opossums … and however much he had.

In England, consequently, there was enacted the Statute of Wills ( 1540 ), which permitted the oldest son to be entirely cut off from inheriting, and in the 17th century military tenure was abolished.

An attack upon Bishop Gardiner by Barnes in a sermon at St Paul's Cross was the signal for a bitter struggle between the Protestant and reactionary parties in Henry's council, which raged during the spring of 1540.

The romance had a great vogue in England through the translation ( c. 1540 ) of John Bourchier, Lord Berners, as Huon of Burdeuxe, through which Shakespeare heard of the French epic.