This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands
For most of the 15th century this Indian empire ruled over what's now Mexico
No one really knows what this French girl, who saved Orleans, looked like; maybe like Leelee Sobieski or Milla Jovovich
In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire
Queen Victoria's prime minister 2nd Viscount Melbourne had a city in this country named for him in 1837
Catherine of Aragon, a daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella, married this British king
He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch...
Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster
While trying to figure out why there were 2 of these, the 1409 Council of Pisa elected a third one
In 1864 the first Red Cross conference was convened in this city