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1549| 1542–1549 | New Spain, Central America [colonization] | The Spanish conquistador leader Francisco de Montejo subdues bitter resistance by the Maya in the southern half of the Yucatán Peninsula in Central America. Their resistance causes him to abandon attempts to conquer the rest of the peninsula. | | 1547–1552 | Russia, Central Asia [wars] | Tsar Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’) of Russia mounts two unsuccessful assaults on Kazan before taking the city and deposing its khan, beginning the Russian conquest of the Tatar lands. | | 1549 | France [poetry] | French poet Joachim Du Bellay publishes La Défense et illustration de la langue française/The Defence and Illustration of the French Language, the first statement of the theory of the poetic group known as La Pléiade. His intention is to revitalize French literature by basing it on the works of classical Greece and Rome. The same year he publishes the first sonnet sequence in French, L'Olive/The Olive, which illustrates the theory. | | 1549 | England [Christianity] | The first Book of Common Prayer is published, much of it the work of the English churchman Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. The official service book of the Church of England, its use is ordered by the Act of Uniformity of this year. | | 12 July - 27 August 1549 | England [political events] | Robert Kett, an English Protestant tanner, leads an insurgent army of East Anglian peasants, who have been in tumult against the enclosure of common land for some months, to Norwich, England, where they establish a ‘commonwealth’, a great camp, 12,000 strong, on Mousehold Heath. | | 12 August 1549 | England, France [wars] | Following King Henry II of France's declaration of war on England on 8 August, his forces capture Ambleteuse Castle, between Calais and Boulogne in northern France, besieging the latter. |
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Accolti, Pietro
Antegnati, Costanzo
Baldwin, William
Book of Common Worship
Bullinger, Johann Heinrich
Cavazzoni, Girolamo
Cochlaeus, Johannes
Cranmer, Thomas
Farnese
Goujon, Jean
| Hollander, Christian Janszon
Inchkeith
Kett's Rebellion
Kett, Robert
La Boétie, Etienne de
Marazion
Marguerite of Navarre
Medici, Ferdinand de'
Salvador
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| Then in the long, pointed windows, glass of a thousand hues; at the wide entrances to the hall, rich doors, finely sculptured; and all, the vaults, pillars, walls, jambs, panelling, doors, statues, covered from top to bottom with a splendid blue and gold illumination, which, a trifle tarnished at the epoch when we behold it, had almost entirely disappeared beneath dust and spiders in the year of grace, 1549, when du Breul still admired it from tradition. |