1387 - Events.
June 2 - John Holland, a maternal half-brother of Richard II of England, is created Earl of Huntingdon.
August 23 - Olaf IV of Norway/ Olaf III of Denmark dies. The vacant thrones come under the Regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark who would soon become Queen in her own right.
December 19 - Battle of Radcot Bridge: forces loyal to Richard II defeated by Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby.
Geoffrey Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales.
Queen Marg ...
Canterbury is a cathedral city in the City of Canterbury district of Kent in South East England. Canterbury is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the primate of the Church of England, and head of the world-wide Anglican Communion. In this latter role, he is the second most important Christian leader in Europe.
Canterbury - History.
Canterbury - Early history.
There has been a settlement in Canterbury since prehistoric times. Bronze Age finds, and Neo ...
August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August.
August 31 - Events.
1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his bro ...
The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force. It was signed in 1373.
This alliance, which goes back to the Middle Ages, has served both countries, despite the common Portuguese complaint that England has profited from her alliance with her weaker ally. It is worth noting, however, that for a long time Portugal was the stronger ally and that both countries have profited from this (now largely unused) alliance. It was very ...
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 ...
August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining.
August 23 - Events.
1305 - William Wallace is executed.
1328 - Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 - King Philip VI of France is crowned.
1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1566 - Calvinists are granted rights in the NetherlandsIncluding:
This is a List of poisonings in alphabetical order of victim. It also includes confirmed attempted and fictional poisonings. Many of the people listed here committed or attempted to commit suicide by poison; others were poisoned by others.
List of poisonings - Confirmed poisonings.
Adolf Hitler (d. 1945) cyanide and gunshot simultaneously before capture
Alan Turing (d. 1954), British mathematician
Alan III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1040)
Alphonse I, Count of Toulouse (d. 1148)Including:
The Flatey Book, (in Icelandic the Flateyjarbók 'Flat-island book') is one of the most important medieval Icelandic manuscripts. It is also known as GkS 1005 fol. and Codex Flatöiensis. Sometimes Anglicized as Flateyjarbok.
Flateyjarbók - Description.
The Flatey Book is the largest and certainly one of the most beautiful of medieval Icelandic manuscripts, comprising 225 velum leaves, carefully written and illustrated. It contains mostly sagas ...
Vilnius (pronunciation ▶ (help·info), Belarusian: Вільня, Polish: Wilno, Russian: Вильнюс, formerly Вильно, German: Wilna; see also other alternative names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of over 540,000 in 2003. It is the capital of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. ...
Alexander V (also Peter of Candia or Peter Philarges, ca. 1339 - May 3, 1410) was Pope or Antipope during the Western Schism. He reigned from June 26, 1409 to his death in 1410 and is now officially regarded by the Catholic Church as an antipope.
He was born in Crete of unknown parents and entered the Franciscan order. His abilities were such that he was sent to study at the universities of Oxford and Paris. While he was in Paris the Western Schism (1378-1417) occurred; Philarges supported Urban VI. He settled in ...
Xiamen (Simplified: 厦门; Traditional: 廈門; Hanyu Pinyin: Xiàmén; Wade-Giles: Hsiamen) is a coastal sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to the north and south respectively.
Xiamen is also known as Amoy internationally, especially in the old times. "Amoy" is how "Xiamen" is spoken in Northern M ...
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket's at Canterbury Cathedral[1]. The Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English.
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1370 - Events.
Beginning of the rule of Poland by Capet-Anjou family.
May 24 - The Treaty of Stralsund ends the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
20 October - Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Costantinoples, marries Elisabeth of Slavonia, daughter of Stephen, duke of Transylvania and Slavonia, and Margareta of Bavaria.
Steel Crossbow first used as a weapon of war.
Carthusian monks build the Charterhouse in London.
Fortification of Xian City (Chang' ...
1380s - Events and Trends.
The Western Schism continues with Pope Urban VI and Avignon Pope Clement VII each considered by some to be the Pope.
Richard II reigns in England and Charles VI reigns in France.
Geoffrey Chaucer begins work on The Canterbury Tales
A civil war in the Scandinavian part of Sweden brought unrest to Finland, too.
As part of the Hundred Years War, the island of Jersey was attacked many times and was even occupied for a couple of years.
Many ...
1321 - Events.
1321 - Births.
September 29 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1321 - Deaths.
January 12 - Maria of Brabant, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
Birger of Sweden (born 1280)
Matthew Csák, ruler of the Váh and the Tatras region
Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (born 1265)
Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England
