We must never forget:
1378- Sa'im al-Dahr is hanged for blowing the nose off the Sphinx.
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We must never forget:
1378- Sa'im al-Dahr is hanged for blowing the nose off the Sphinx.
1377
Quite a year for the pope:
In January Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from Avignon to Rome.
in February the Pope's representative in northern Italy, Robert of Geneva pillages Cesena and 4,000 antipapal rebels are massacred.
In May continuous riots in Rome forces the Pope to move back to Avignon for the time being. :rolleyes5:
1376 - England beat France in the Battle of Navarrete (Najera),
1375
The Hanseatic League receives formal recognition from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg, who visits Lübeck. The league establishes common weights, measures, and coinage, arranges for the settlement of disputes at home and abroad, secures new trading privileges for its member cities, protects merchants and their goods on the road and at sea, draws up a Seebuch to help navigators find lighthouses, harbors, and buoys from Riga to Lisbon.
1374
Geoffrey Chaucer is granted a gallon of wine a day (for the rest of his life) by Edward III
1373
Byzantine co-emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos rebels against his father, John V Palaiologos, for agreeing to let Constantinople become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son.
1372
Battle of La Rochelle: The French & the Castilians defeat the English. The French gain control of the English Channel for the first time since 1340.
1371 - Serbs and Othoman army clash in the battle of Maritsa
1370 -- The Treaty of Stralsund ends the war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League.
1369 - Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille in Paris.
1368 - Zhu Yuanzhang becomes the Hongwu Emperor, initiating the three-centruries Ming Dynasty rule over China.
1367 - Charles V creates the first royal library in France.
1366
Comet Tempel-Tuttle passed the Earth at a distance of only 0.0229 AU.
As 1 Astronomical Unit = the mean distance from Earth to the sun = 150 million kilometers the distans would be appr 3435km, which in astronomical terms must be regarded as a near miss.
1365 - The University of Vienna is founded
1364 University of Cracow founded