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1366 - Events. 1366 - Births. March 22 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399) July 11 - Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II of England (died 1394) Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, English noblewoman (died 1425) Miran Shah, governor of Azerbaijan (died 1408) 1366 - Deaths. January 24 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon (born 1299) January 25 - Henry Suso, German mystic S ...

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. Chaucer is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. Geoffrey Chaucer - Life. Chaucer was born around 1343 probably in London, although the exact date and location is not known. His father and grandfather were bot ...

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William of Wykeham (1320 – September 27, 1404), Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castle, was born in Wickham, Hampshire. William was born to an undistinguished family in Hampshire and educated at a school in Winchester. He became secretary to the constable of Winchester Castle and in that capacity learned a lot about building. This led to architectural work for King Edward III, for whom he reconstucted Windsor Castle. ...

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Charles V the Wise (French: Charles V le Sage) (January 31, 1338 – September 16, 1380) was king of France (1364 to 1380) and a member of the Valois Dynasty. Born at Vincennes, Île-de-France, France, son of King Jean II and Bonne of Luxembourg. He was the first French heir to use the title dauphin after the region of Dauphiné was acquired by his father. He was crowned ...

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Charles IV (May 14, 1316 – 29 November 1378), of the House of Luxembourg, King of the Romans (as Charles (Karl) IV, 1344 – 1378), Holy Roman Emperor (Charles IV, 1355 – 1378), King of Bohemia (Charles (Karel) I 1346 – 1378), Count of Luxemburg (1346 – 1353), Margrave of Brandenburg (1373 – 1378). He was born as Wenceslaus, later changed his name to Charles at his confirmation. Charles IV Holy Roman Emperor - Life. From 1333 Charles started to administer his father's Crown l ...

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Saint Catherine of Siena (Siena, Italy, March 25, 1347 – April 29, 1380 in Rome) was a Dominican Tertiary or lay-affiliate of the Dominican Order. Catherine was the 23rd child out of 25 (her twin, the 24th, died at birth); her parents were Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth-dyer, and his wife, Lapa. At the age of seven she consecrated her virginity to Christ; in her sixteenth year she took the habit of the Dominican Tertiaries. As a tertiary, Catherine lived at home rather than in a convent, and she practiced austerities there which a pr ...

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Belz (Ukrainian Белз, Polish Bełz, Yiddish בעלז) is a small town in western Ukraine, near the border with Poland. It has 2,408 inhabitants (2004). Geo-coordinates in degrees (decimal): 50.38°N, 24.02°E. The town has existed since at least the 11th century, when it was part of Rus. In 1366 it became a part of Poland, to which it belonged until 1793. It then passed to the Austrian Empire, later the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where it was a part of the region of Galicia. During that time, the town became home to a Hasidic dy ...

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John Wycliffe (also Wyclif, Wycliff, or Wickliffe) (c.1320 – December 31, 1384) was an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He made an English translation of the Bible in one complete edition and is considered a precursor of the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe was born at Ipreswell (modern Hipswell), Yorkshire, England, between 1320 and 1330 and died at Lutterworth (near Leicester) in 1384. Wycliffe also lived during the black plague. < ...

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Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s - 1360s - 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s Years: 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 - 1362 - 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 See also: 1362 state leaders 1362 - Events. January 16 - The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes Holland, England, Germany and Denmark destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany. Under Edward III, English replaces French as En ...

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Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s - 1360s - 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s Years: 1360 1361 1362 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 1368 1369 Events and Trends William Langland writes Piers Plowman Category: 1360s ...

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1299 - Events. Osman I declares the independence of the Ottoman Principality The house of Holland becomes extinct. The County of Holland becomes a part of a personal union with the County of Hainaut. April 1, 1299 Kings Towne on the River Hull granted city status by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England. The Mexica settle Chapultepec, a former Toltec stronghold. 1299 - Births. Alfonso IV of Aragon (died 1366) Pierre Ber ...

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IEEE 1394 1394 - Births. March 4 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (died 1460) July 12 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (died 1441) November 24 - Charles, duc d'Orléans, French poet (died 1465) December 10 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437) Ulugh Beg, Turkish ruler and astronomer (died 1449) Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria Ikkyu, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet (died 148 ...

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1399 - Events. September 30 - Accession of Henry IV of England October 13 - Coronation of Henry IV of England November 1 - Accession of John VI, Duke of Brittany 1399 - Births. William Canynge, English merchant (approximate date; died 1474) Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1468) 1399 - Deaths. January 4 - Nicolas Eymeric, Spanish theologian and inquisitor February 3 - Jo ...

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January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years). January 25 - Events. 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Senate. 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England. 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1554 - Foundation of São Paulo city, Brazil. 1755 - Moscow Uni ...

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1425 - Events. Foundation of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Masaccio writes The Holy Trinity (added by Mei) 1425 - Births. John II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1470) Edmund Sutton, English nobleman (died 1483) 1425 - Deaths. January 18 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (born 1391) March 17 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (born 1407)

Albert III was born as the third son of Duke Albert II of Austria. Even though his father had determined that the eldest son should the sole successor after his death in 1358, Albert later inherited the rule from his two older brothers Rudolf IV, Frederick III and shared it with his younger brother Leopold III. In 1377, Albert went on a crusade against the pagan Lithuanians and Samogitians. After Rudolf's and Frederick's death without an heir, Albert entered into the Treaty of Neuberg to divide the Habsburg territories with Leo ...

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The college site on the River Cam was originally obtained from the purchase of a house from John de Crauden to house the monks during their study, and the main court was built in the college's first few decades. The chapel was licensed in 1352 and built in 1366, in the year that Pope Urban V granted the Master and fellows permission to celebrate Mass in the college. In 1729, Sir Nathaniel Lloyd redecorated the chapel in what, despite subsequent enlargements, remains an intimate styl ...

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Murad spent his early years on the throne disposing off rivals and rebellions, most notably the revolts of the Serbs. In 1423 he paid a short visit to Constantinople, laid siege on it for a couple of months and forced the Byzantines to pay additional tribute. In 1423 the first regular war against Venice began. During Murad's siege of Constantinople, the Byzantine Emperor's control over the Greek city-states weakened. On the request of its inhabitants, Venetian troops took control of the city of Salonika (Thessaloniki). The Ottoman arm ...

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List of Bosnians and Herzegovinians - Medieval Bosnian State 1154-1463. 1154. - 1163. Ban Borić 1172. - 1204. Ban Kulin 1204. - 1232. Ban Stjepan 1232. - 1253. Ban Matej Ninoslav 1254. - 1287. Prijezda I 1287. - 1290. Prijezda II 1267. - 1313. Stjepan I Kotromanić, also known as Kotroman 1314 .- 1353. Stjepan II Kotromanić 1353. - 1366. Tvrtko I Kotromanić 1366. - 1367. Stjepan ...

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Upon the death of his father-in-law Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, he received half of Henry's lands, the title Earl of Lancaster, and the distinction as the greatest landowner in the north of England, because of his first marriage to his cousin, Blanche of Lancaster (1359), heiress to the Palatinate of Lancaster. John received the rest of the inheritance only when Blanche's sister, Maud (married to William V, Count of Hainaut), died on April 10, 1362. Gaunt received the title "Duke of Lancaster" from Edward III on 13 Novem ...

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