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18 apr 2024 · December 6 – King John abandons the lands that have been held by the Dukes of Normandy for over a hundred years and returns to England. Only two castles hold out against the French forces – they are Chinon Castle, controlled by Hubert de Burgh and Loches Castle. The Oeselians ravage Danish Scania.
19 apr 2024 · External links. History of Europe. Europe by cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1595. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500).
6 giorni fa · First practical means of collecting energy from the Sun and turning it into a current of electricity. 1955: The hovercraft is patented by Christopher Cockerell. 1955: The intermodal container is developed by Malcom McLean. 1957: The laser and optical amplifier are invented and named by Gordon Gould and Charles Townes.
5 giorni fa · Il Basso Medioevo (o Tardo Medioevo) è una suddivisione storica del periodo medievale, ovvero il periodo della storia europea e del bacino del Mediterraneo convenzionalmente compreso tra l'anno 1000 circa e la scoperta dell'America da parte degli Europei nel 1492, preceduto dall' Alto Medioevo .
8 apr 2024 · On the death of Wenceslas in 1419, Sigismund inherited the Bohemian crown, but the series of wars fought against the Hussites during the decade of the 1420s, most of which were military disasters for the king’s party, delayed his coronation.
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3 giorni fa · Edward IV, king of England from 1461 until October 1470 and again from April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a leading participant in the Yorkist-Lancastrian conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. Learn more about Edward IV’s life and reign in this article.
5 apr 2024 · Middle English language, the vernacular spoken and written in England from about 1100 to about 1500, the descendant of the Old English language and the ancestor of Modern English. (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.) The history of Middle English is often divided into.
