- The
United States Semiquincentennial, also
called the Bisesquicentennial, the
Sestercentennial or the
Quarter Millennial, will be the 250th anniversary...
-
Americae Sive
Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et
Exactissima Descriptio (Latin: A New and Most
Exact Description of
America or The
Fourth Part of the World)...
- This 1562 map
Americae Sive
Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et
Exactissima Descriptio by
Diego Gutiérrez was the
first map to
print the
toponym California....
-
Amerigo Vespucci wakes up "America" in
Americae Retectio,
engraving by the
Flemish artist Jan
Galle (circa 1615)...
- the
Spanish fleet. In 1562 Gutiérrez
published a
remarkable map
entitled Americae Sive
Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et
Exactissima Descriptio in
Antwerp (then...
-
first known use of a
variation of the
place name
Appalachia ("Apalchen") from his map,
Americae sive
qvartae orbis partis nova et
exactissima descriptio...
-
Missioners of
America Inc.; Latin:
Societas Missionariorum Domesticorum Americæ), is a
Catholic society of
priests and
brothers founded in 1939 to serve...
- England, did make a
major contribution to
North American botany in his
Flora americae septentrionalis; or A
Systematic Arrangement and
Description of The Plants...
- Dictionary, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2022. Ortelius,
Abraham (1570), "
Americae sive Novi
Orbis Nova
Descriptio [New
Description of
America or the New...
-
Jefferson Davis in
December 1863,
addressing him as "Praesidi
foederatorum Americae regionum" (President of the
federated regions of America), was not seen...
