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In March 1440, gentry ( mainly from Culmerland ) and the Hanseatic cities of Danzig, Elbing, Kneiphof, Thorn and other Prussian cities founded the Prussian Confederation to free themselves from the overlordship of the Teutonic Knights.
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On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).
Towns which founded the Prussian Confederation on 14 March 1440:
* March 6 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator ( born c. 1440 )
The rebellious Prussian Confederation was founded in Marienwerder on March 14, 1440.
By 1440 there were known to be three great bells in the tower, however on 11 March 1597 an accidental gunpowder explosion in one of the nearby quays damaged the tower and caused the bells to crack.
In 1440 he was once more appointed Warden of the West March, and this time held the position until his death.
On 5 March 1440 – 1441, the king endowed the college out of alien priories with some £ 500 a year, almost exactly the amount of the original endowment of Winchester.
From Buda, in March 1440, he published an encyclical calling on all Russian bishops to accept the union, but when he at last arrived in Moscow ( Easter, 1441 ), and proclaimed the union in the Kremlin church, he found that the Grand Duke Vasily II of Moscow and most of the bishops and people would have none of it.
Saint Frances of Rome, Obl. S. B., () ( 1384 – March 9, 1440 ) is an Italian saint who was a wife, mother, mystic, organizer of charitable services and a Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of vowed oblates.
March and gentry
The Catholic nobles and gentry met in Ulster in March to appoint a commander to succeed Owen Roe O ' Neill, and their choice was Heber MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, the chief organizer of the recent Clonmacnoise meeting.
Krzysztof Zbaraski ( sometimes mistakenly written as Krzysztof Zbarski ; 1580 – 6 March 1627 ) was a Polish-Lithuanian member of the gentry social class ( szlachta ).
The Cossacks, ravaging the environs of Moscow, acknowledged him as Tsar on March 2, 1612, and under threat of vengeance in case of non-compliance, the gentry of Pskov also " kissed the cross " ( i. e., swore allegiance ) to the thief of Pskov, as he was usually nicknamed.
The Catholic gentry near Dublin, known as the " Lords of the Pale ", issued their Remonstrance to the king on 17 March 1642 at Trim, County Meath.
Reginald de Grey was responsible for issuing and enforcing royal demands in the Northern March, such as calling the local nobility and gentry and their men to Royal and military service.
French, along with several other Catholic clerics and gentry, helped to organise the rebels into a more cohesive political movement, the Confederate Catholics of Ireland in March 1642, with the intention of attaining freedom of religion and legal equality for Catholics and self government for Ireland.
March and mainly
Light snowfall mainly occurs from December through March, but snow cover does not usually remain for long.
Snowfall occurs mainly in December through March, but snow covers do not remain for a long time, and some winters are virtually free of snow.
Breeding took place from March to September, mainly between April and May.
* Åland islands: Thanks to a law revision by the Government of Åland concerning " small electrically powered vehicles ", the Segway and all other, mainly aimed to be one person electrical vehicles, are in Åland classified as bicycles since 14 March 2012.
The city has a relatively dry climate, with rainfall occurring mainly in the slightly warmer months of November to March.
After being elected Pope in 1181, he lived at Rome from November 1181 to March 1182, but dissensions in the city compelled him to pass the remainder of his pontificate in exile, mainly at Velletri, Anagni and Verona.
Rainfall during the summer months is mainly from thunderstorms and thundery showers ; from January to March the heavier rainfall is due to prevailing south-westerly frontal systems.
In March 2012 the Norwegian Foreign Ministry announced that the Norwegian embassy in Damascus will be temporarily closed, mainly due to the deteriorating security situation in the country, however Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre also emphasized the closing being a political signal.
Coati breeding season mainly corresponds with the start of the rainy season to coincide with maximum availability of food, especially fruits: between January and March in some areas, and between October and February in others.
Mysore sometimes faces water crises, mainly during the summer months ( March – June ) and in years of low rainfall.
The novelist L. H. Myers anonymously gave £ 300 to enable this and Orwell went with his wife to North Africa where he stayed, in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh, from September 1938 to March 1939.
From September 1944 to March 1945 Wassenaar was one of launching sites used by the German Luftwaffe, commanded by SS General Hans Kammler for the V-2 rockets directed mainly towards London.
In a draft report dated March 14, 1991 and based mainly on USSS forensics findings, NIH's fraud unit, then called the Office of Scientific Integrity ( OSI ), accused Imanishi-Kari of falsifying and fabricating data.
The main nesting period was November to March with eggs being laid mainly in January.
The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was mainly composed between late 1887 and March 1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works.
At about this point, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, received news from Irish sources that an invasion was about to take place, and made his way to Ireland where he held land, mainly in and around the castle and town of Trim.
Birds leave for winter quarters a more or less short time after breeding – July to October, with most birds staying to September – and return to nest mainly in March / April, but some only arrive in May.
In March received an award as " City Water Champion ", along with Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rotterdam, Holland and Lyon, France among other cities, which was awarded by the World Water Council Marseille, France, mainly to demonstrate greater progress in the areas of sanitation and wastewater reuse and energy cogeneration from biogas.
Sorenson Video 2 was released in March 1999 ; however, it mainly included minor improvements and optimizations to the Developer Edition of the encoder, as movies encoded with it were backwards compatible with the Sorenson Video decoder.
The disordered occupation of the hills represents both an environmental as well as a geological risk: the deforestation leads to frequent landslides, mainly from January to March, the traditional rainy season in the region.
Trans States Airlines operated Delta Connection flights from March 1998 to March 31, 2000, mainly from the Boston and New York focus cities.
For various reasons, mainly issues with the fire alarm / safety system, the opening has been postponed to March 2013.
Grayson Perry ( born 24 March 1960 ) is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing.
In males, spermatogenesis occurs mainly in February and March.
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The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.
McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.
New car sales in Dallas County during March showed slight signs of recovering from the doldrums which have characterized sales this year.
The Commerce Department said seasonally adjusted sales of retail stores dropped to slightly under $18 billion in April, down 1% from the March level of more than $18.2 billion.
Commerce Department officials were inclined to explain the April sales decline as a reaction from a surge of consumer buying in March.
At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..
Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.
President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865
Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).
He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.
Antoninus Pius (; born 19 September 86AD – died 7 March 161AD ), also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138AD to 161AD.
After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).
A number of tour boats, ranging from large motorized vessels to small sailing yachts, visit the Antarctic Peninsula during the summer months ( January – March ).
Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.
Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.
On November 6, 1827, Alcott started teaching in Bristol, Connecticut, still using the same methods he used in Cheshire, but opposition from the community surfaced quickly ; he was unemployed by March 1828.
Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.
The water table in this region was very high, and replenished regularly — by winter storms in the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates from October to March, and from snow-melt from March to July.
Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.
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