- Ivan Podkova by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Date of birth unknown; died June 16, 1578. Moldavian hospodar in 1577; before that, a leader of the Zaporozh’e cossacks.After the defeat in 1574 of the national liberation movement led by Ivan Liutyi, popular resentment against Turkish feudal oppression began to grow in Moldavia. Ivan Podkova declared himself the brother of Ivan Liutyi and marched into Moldavia, leading a detachment of 1 ...
- Christian IV by Edgar Price
1577--1648, king of Denmark and Norway (1588--1648): defeated in the Thirty Years' War (1629) and by Sweden (1645 ...
- Frobisher by Alana Woods
Sir Martin.? 1535--94, English navigator and explorer: made three unsuccessful voyages in search of the Northwest Passage (1576; 1577; 1578), visiting Labrador and Baffin Island
- Helmont by Travis Gregory
Jean Baptiste van. 1577--1644, Flemish chemist and physician. He was the first to distinguish gases and claimed to have coined the word gas
- Holinshed by Bradley Morrison
Holinshed, HolingshedRaphael. died? 1580, English chronicler. His Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577) provided material for Shakespeare's historical and legendary plays