1308!
The Capet-Anjou family begins to rule Hungary.
1307 - All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
Now that was an interesting year![]()
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
1306 - Mar 25th - Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland
1304 - The peace treaty signed between the khanates of the Mongol Empire. The end of the civil war of the Mongols.
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
1303
One of the seven wonders of the world, the Lighthouse of Alexandria is destroyed by an earthquake.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
1302 - Boniface VIII publishes the Papal bull Unam Sanctam - a firm statement of papal supremacy.
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
1300 - Accounts from England include a reference to a game called creag being played (generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket)
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
1299 - Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
I'd rather have questions that I can't answer than answers that I can't question.
1297 - Sep 11th - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English
I'd rather have questions that I can't answer than answers that I can't question.
1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
1295 - let's have a look at what happened then...
Oh! That's a nice one, certainly in view of the one above!
23rd October: The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance was signed between Scotland and France in Paris against England.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)