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* Coluccio Salutati is appointed Chancellor of Florence.
* May 4 Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence ( b. 1331 )
In 1374 Coluccio received an appointment in Florence and the following year was appointed Chancellor of Florence, the most important position in the bureaucracy of the Florentine Republic.
The deed itself is first reported by Coluccio Salutati ( died 1406 ), Chancellor of Florence, in his letter to King Tvrtko I of Bosnia ( r. 1353-1391 ), dated 20 October 1389, on behalf of the Florentine Senate.
He was made the Chancellor of Florence shortly before his death, by Cosimo, who was his best friend.
He was for some time professor of law in the University of Florence, and after the dismissal in 1456 from the Florentine chancellorship of the renowned humanist Poggio Bracciolini for incompetence and an interregnum of two years, Accolti himself became Chancellor of the Florentine Republic in 1458.
Another project was the triumphal arch wall tomb erected in Florence's church of Santa Croce for the historian and humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni ( d. 1444 ), who had served as the State Chancellor of Florence.
Filippo's chronicles were approved by the Chancellor of Florence, Coluccio Salutati, who made corrections to the work and added commentary.
The Chancellor of Florence held the most important position in the bureaucracy of the Florentine Republic.
These comprise the University Company, which is headed by Mr. James Mageria and the University Council, headed by the Chancellor, Dr. Florence Muli-Musiime.
Many worked for the organized Church and were in holy orders ( like Petrarch ), while others were lawyers and chancellors of Italian cities, like Petrarch's disciple, Salutati, the Chancellor of Florence, and thus had access to book copying workshops.
Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence during the war
Humanist Chancellor of Florence Coluccio Salutati disseminated public letters urging the cities to rebel against the " tyrannical " and " corrupt " papal rule, instead urging a return to all ' antica Republicanism.
Dante studied under Florence's Chancellor Brunetto Latini, who was himself away from the battle scene, on embassy in Castile seeking help for Guelph Florence from Alfonso X el Sabio.

Chancellor and on
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
The Bundestag members are the only federal officials directly elected by the public ; the Bundestag in turn elects the Chancellor and, in addition, exercises oversight of the executive branch on issues of both substantive policy and routine administration.
In April 1936 the Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain introduced a budget which increased the amount spent on the armed forces.
The Chancellor expressed great regret that he should have to spend so much on armaments, but said that it was absolutely necessary and was due only to the actions of other nations.
This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.
Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.
In addition, with the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, Chancellor Prince Metternich and his secret police enforced censorship, mainly in universities, to keep a watch on the activities of professors and students, whom he held responsible for the spread of radical liberal ideas.
The parliament also appoints the president of the Bank of Estonia, the Chief of the Headquarters of the Estonian Defense, the Comptroller General of Estonia, the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Estonia, all on the proposal of the President of Estonia.
Mary's closest confidant, Charles V's ambassador Simon Renard, argued that her throne would never be safe while Elizabeth lived ; and the Chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, worked to have Elizabeth put on trial.
The Chancellor cannot be removed from office during a four year term unless the Bundestag has agreed on a successor.
On November 3, 2004, the Federal Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suggested that the " Day of the German Unity " be celebrated on a Sunday, for economic reasons.
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called a vote of confidence, tying it to his strategy on the war.
Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.
In 1682 he was made Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and was created, on 13 November, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Formartine, and Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves and Kellie, in the Scottish peerage, being appointed also Sheriff Principal of Aberdeenshire and Midlothian.
When in December of 1852, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer submitted his budget to Parliament on behalf of the minority government, the Peelites, the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade were all alienated by the proposed budget.
After repeated victories in 1983, 1987, 1990 and 1994 he was finally defeated by a landslide that was the biggest on record, for the left in the 1998 federal elections, and was succeeded as Chancellor by Gerhard Schröder of the SPD.
The appointments and dismissals of members of the German cabinet is approved by President of Germany | President Richard von Weizsäcker ( right ), on the advice of Chancellor of Germany ( Federal Republic of Germany ) | Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( left ) in 1991.
When acting as Lord of Mann, the Queen acts on the advice of the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom having prime responsibility as Privy Counsellor for Manx affairs.
When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Goebbels was initially given no office: the coalition cabinet Hitler headed contained only a minority of Nazis as part of the deal he had negotiated with President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative parties.
It was under these conditions that Pope Gregory XI, who in January, 1377, had gone from Avignon to Rome, sent on 22 May five copies of his bull against Wycliffe, dispatching one to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the others to the Bishop of London, King Edward III, the Chancellor, and the university ; among the enclosures were 18 theses of his, which were denounced as erroneous and dangerous to Church and State.
The end result was that Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
And on 29th June 1933, i. e., several months after Hitler was made Chancellor and the Nazis were given full police power over Germany, and while the Nazis were still busy terrorizing and murdering Communists, Social Democrats, and Labor Union officials, Adenauer wrote in a letter: " In my opinion the only salvation is a monarch, a Hohenzoller [...], even Hitler in my opinion, a lifetime Reichpresident [...]“.
Theodor Heuss was elected the first President of the Republic, and Adenauer was elected Chancellor ( head of government ) on 16 September 1949 with the support of his own CDU, the Christian Social Union and the liberal Free Democratic Party.
To aid faltering industries, the Chancellor abandoned free trade and established protectionist tariffs ( taxes on imports ), which alienated the National Liberals who demanded free trade.

Chancellor and
* Chancellor s Medal ( Medalla Rectoral ) University of Chile
As early as the thirteenth century, it was held that " the law of nature ... is the ground of all laws " and by the Chancellor and Judges that " it is required by the law of nature that every person, before he can be punish d, ought to be present ; and if absent by contumacy, he ought to be summoned and make default .".
Professor Peter Dawkins is VU s Vice-Chancellor and President, and the Victoria University Council is led by the Chancellor, Mr George Pappas.
‘ Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor s foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be?
One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: ‘ tis the same thing in a Chancellor s conscience .’
Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).
Keswick gave the job of editor simply to " the only journalist he knew ", Alexander Chancellor, an old family friend and his mother s godson, with whom he had been at Eton and Cambridge.
Chancellor s editorship of the paper relied principally on a return to earlier values.
Another columnist recruited by Chancellor was Taki Theodoracopulos whose column ‘ High Life was then printed beside Bernard s ‘ Low Life ’.
The 28 year-old Charles Moore replaced Chancellor in February 1984, after the magazine s then owner, Algy Cluff, had become concerned that The Spectator was " lacking in political weight ", and considered Chancellor to be " commercially irresponsible ".
The room is named after Craig F Knight, an alumnus of the college who was invested as the College s first member of the Vice Chancellor s Circle in 2008.
Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government including Nigel Lawson ( former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee ), Martin Taylor ( former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson ( chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner ( former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud ( former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer ), John Kingman ( former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild s ), George Graham ( RBS banker ), Andrew Balls ( head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson ( Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ).
He made headlines by telling German audiences that the British people forgave them for what had happened in the war, but was later credited by the first West Germany Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, with being among his country s founding fathers.
Money for the scheme was promised first by Philip Snowden, Chancellor in the first Labour government, and then by his successor in Baldwin s Conservative administration, Winston Churchill.
On November 9, 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel, walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia s Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's Lech Wałęsa as part of the 20-year celebration of tearing down the Berlin Wall.
Gorkon s daughter, Azetbur, becomes the new Chancellor, and pushes forward with diplomatic negotiations ; for reasons of security, the conference's location is kept a secret.
John Henry Parnell himself was a cousin of one of Ireland's leading aristocrats, Viscount Powerscourt, and also the grandson of a Chancellor of the Exchequer in Grattan s Parliament, Sir John Parnell, who lost office in 1799 when he opposed the Act of Union.
The president then appoints what is called a Chancellor which is known as Germany s Head of state.
Samuel Pepys said of the marriage: "[...] that the Duke of York s marriage with her hath undone the kingdom, by making the Chancellor so great above reach, who otherwise would have been but an ordinary man, to have been dealt with by other people [...]" In fact, after Anne's death, everyone at court struggled to find a new wife for James, but this new wife was not, under any circumstances, to be of humble birth.
In 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler s assumption of the office of Chancellor of Germany, Walter Benjamin left Germany for the Spanish island of Ibiza for some months ; he then moved to Nice, where he considered killing himself.
Following the victory of the Lloyd George coalition in the elections of 1918, Chamberlain was again appointed to the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1919 and immediately faced the huge task of restoring Britain s finances after four disastrous years of wartime expenditure.

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