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For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1272 - Events. Mamluk sultan Baibars of Egypt invades the weakening kingdom of Makuria to the south. Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, occupies Durres in Albania and establishes an Albanian kingdom. Count Floris V of Holland makes an unsuccessful attack on Frisia in an attempt to recover the body of his father, Count William II. King Edward I of England departs for England from the failed Ninth Crusade and ...

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St. Bernard Tolomeo (1272 - 1348) is a Roman Catholic saint and founder of the congregation of the Blessed Virgin of Monte Oliveto. In the Roman Martyrology he is commemorated on August 21. Bernard Tolomeo was born at Siena in Tuscany in what is now Italy, and received at baptism the name of Giovanni, but took that of Bernard out of admiration for the saintly Abbot of Clairvaux. He was educated by his uncle, Christopher Tolomeo, a Dominican, and desired to enter the religious life, but his father's opposition prevented him from ...

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2 April is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. April 2 - Events. 69 - Galba, governor of Spain, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Roman emperors begun with Caesar and Augustus. 1453 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29 1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first known European to ...

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April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. April 1 - Events. 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. 1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English 1572 - The Watergeuzen succeeded in capturing Den Briel, effectively sealing off the Meuse from the Spaniards. 1789 - In New York City, the United States House of R ...

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Saint Thomas Aquinas [Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino] (c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis. He is the most famous classical proponent of natural theology. He gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Catholic Church. He is considered by the Catholic Church to be its greatest theologian and one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church. The ...

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Charles of Anjou (1227–1285), also Charles I of Sicily. He was King of Sicily 1262–1282 (and under that title, King of Naples 1282–1285), King of Albania 1272–1285, King of Jerusalem 1277–1285, Prince of Achaea 1278–1285, Count of Provence and Forcalquier 1246–1285, and Count of Anjou and Maine 1247–1285. He was the posthumous son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, and hence brother to Louis IX of France and Alphonse of Toulouse. He conquered the Kingdom of Sicily from the Hohenstaufen in 1266 and began to ...

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Caerphilly Castle is a Norman castle that dominates the centre of the town of Caerphilly in south Wales. It is the largest castle in Wales, the second largest in Britain (second to Windsor castle) and is one of the largest fortresses in Europe. Built mainly between 1268 and 1271, it is an early example of a concentric castle and is surrounded by large but fairly shallow artificial lakes to ...

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Saint Zita (c. 1215 - 27 April 1272) is the patron saint of all maids and domestics. She may also be appealed to in order to help find lost keys. She was an Italian woman who began as a servant at the age of 12 to the Fatinelli household in Lucca, Italy. She was unjustly despised, overburdened, reviled, and often beaten by her employers and fellow servants for her hard work and obvious goodness. The incessant ill-usage, however, was powerless to deprive her of her inward peace, her love of those who wronged her, and her respect ...

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Yazd or Yezd (In Persian: یزد), is one of the most ancient and historical cities of Iran (Persia). The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan, at 31.92° North, 54.37° East. In of 2005 it had an estimated population of about 433,836 people.[1] The city is the capital of Iran's Yazd province. Yazd - Introduction. Yazd is a unique desert city. Because of high quality and originality, handicrafts from Yazd enjoyed a global reputation before modern industrial mechan ...

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August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. August 6 - Events. 1538 - Bogota, Colombia founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada. 1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire. 1819 - Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain. 1861 - British ann ...

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1209 - Events. Albigensian Crusade against Cathars (1209-1218) the Franciscans are founded. Cambridge University founded. In August, Simon De Monfort, leader of Albigensian Crusade, takes over Carcassonne Genghis Khan conquers Turkestan 1209 - Births. January 5 - Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1272) Hajji Bektash Wali, Turkish mystic (died 1271) 1209 - Deaths. Including:

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1207 - Births. September 8 - King Sancho II of Portugal September 30 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (died 1273) October 1 - King Henry III of England (died 1272) Henry II, Duke of Brabant (died 1248) Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (died 1231) Philip I of Savoy (died 1285) 1207 - Deaths. Amaury of Bene, heretic Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria ...

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Bresse is a area of France, in the eastern part of the country, and a former province. It is located in the Rhône-Alpes région between Bourgogne and Jura. The geographical term Bresse has two meanings: Bresse bourguignone (or louhannaise), which is situated in the east of the département of Saône-et-Loire, and Bresse, which is located in the département of Ain. The corresponding adjective is bressan, and the inhabitants are Bressans. Bresse - History. In ...

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1240 - Births. Abulafia, Maltese Jewish philosopher (died 1292) Pope Benedict XI (died 1304) Stephen V of Hungary (died 1272) Sigerus of Brabant, French theologian (died 1284) Albert the Degenerate, landgrave of Thuringia (approximate date; died 1314) 1240 - Deaths. April 11 - Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd (born 1173) Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher Jacques de Vitry, French historian and the ...

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1246 - Events. End of the reign of Emperor Go-Saga, emperor of Japan. Emperor Go-Fukakusa ascends to the throne of Japan. Sainte-Chapelle built. With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria Beaulieu Abbey dedicated. 1246 - Births. September 14 - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (died 1272) 1246 - Deaths. February 25 - Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Prince ...

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Abbeville is a city in the Picardie région, in the north of France. Abbeville - Location. Abbeville is located on the Somme River, 12 m. from its modern mouth in the English Channel, and 28 m. northwest of Amiens. In the medieval period, it was the lowest crossing point on the Somme and it was nearby that Edward III's army crossed shortly before the Battle of Crécy in 1346 Abbevillian Abbeville - Administration. Abbeville was the ...

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October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). There are 91 days remaining. October 1 - Events. 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. 965 - John XIII becomes Pope. 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam. 1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly. 1795 - Belgium is conquered by Fran ...

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1337 - Events. March 17 - Edward, the Black Prince is created Duke of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke Beginning of the Hundred Years War between France and England Bisham Priory founded Scaligeri family loses control of Padua; Alberto della Scala, music patron of the Italian trecento, moves to Verona 1337 - Births. Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (died 1410) Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut. (died 140 ...

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The Crown of Aragon was the regime of a large portion of what is now Spain, plus numerous Mediterranean possessions, for much of the later Middle Ages. The regime began in 1035, as the Kingdom of Aragon, comprising the area still known as Aragon. In 1137, the marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Petronila of Aragon, joined the County of Barcelona and territory of Catalonia with the Kingdom of Aragon under the name of "Crown of Aragon". The Crown of Aragon later included Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Sicily and Sard ...

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Settlement at Cluj-Napoca reaches as far back as prehistoric times. After the Roman Empire conquered Dacia in the beginning of the 2nd century, Trajan established a legion base at a Dacian settlement known as Napoca. Although it was founded as a military base, Napoca grew rapidly as civilians settled nearby. Hadrian raised Napoca to the status of a municipium, naming it Municipium Aelium Hadrianum Napoca. The locality was later raised to the status of a colonia, probably during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Napoca became a provincial capital of Provincia Porolissensis and the seat of a procurator. However, during the Migrations P ...

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