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Around 200 A.D., Soranus wrote the earliest known biography of this physician

When this first Hungarian king was crowned in 1000, he made Esztergom the capital

In 1785 this future French emperor graduated from military school in Paris, 42nd in his class of 58

Barons & churchmen drew up this 1215 document to reduce the power of England's King John

In 1519 he & his men landed at Tabasco & began the Spanish conquest of Mexico

In 1936 Italy conquered this Ethiopian capital & Haile Selassie fled to Great Britain

In this mid-1930s this U.S. naval officer chartered the Edsel Ford mountains in Antarctica

When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemen's Land

The Chinese plan called the Great Leap Forward was initiated by this leader in 1958

In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family