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Monday 16 March 2009 - 18:52:17
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Europe has about 74 Million inhabitants.

January 26 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.

June 24 - The Battle of Sluys is fought between the naval fleets of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France. The former is under the command of Edward III of England and the latter under that of admiral Hue Quiéret and treasurer Nicholas Béhuchet assisted by Genoese Mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra. The French fleet is virtually destroyed and both commanders are among the casualties.

Undated:

A son of Deceased King Christopher II of Denmark is elected to the throne following 8 years of Interregnum. He will Reign as Valdemar IV of Denmark.

Wednesday 18 March 2009 - 23:24:11
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Wednesday 18 March 2009 - 23:40:04
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Asia
Edessa is taken by the Sassanids.
The tax census of the Sui Dynasty government in China records roughly 9 Million registered households in the Empire, a population size of roughly 50 Million people.
After the completion of the Grand Canal of China, Emperor Yang of Sui led a recorded 105 km (65 mile) long naval flotilla of ships from the north Down to his southern capital at Yangzhou.

Religion
The Pantheon is consecrated to the Virgin Mary and all saints.

Deaths

Empress Yang Lihua
Zuhayr, Arab poet (approximate date)

Wednesday 18 March 2009 - 23:40:36

citation :
xentrix86 says : 977
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which still exist today, ive seen it.
 
Wednesday 18 March 2009 - 23:44:15
1400:

January - Henry IV quells the Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury and the Baron le Despencer for their attempt to have Richard II of England restored as King.

14 February - Richard II of England dies by Means unknown in Pontefract Castle. It is likely that King Henry IV ordered the death of Richard by starvation to prevent further uprisings.

August - The princes of the German states vote to depose Wenceslaus as Holy Roman Emperor due to his weak leadership and his Mental illnesses.

21 August - Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, is elected as Holy Roman Emperor.

September 16 - Owain Glyndŵr is proclaimed Prince of Wales by his followers and begins attacking English strongholds in north-east Wales.

December - Manuel II Palaiologos becomes the first (and last) Byzantine Emperor to visit England.

Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg is declared as a rival to Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslaus. However, Frederick is murdered shortly after.

Timur defeats both The Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to capture the city of Damascus in present-day Syria. Much of the city's inhabitants are subsequently massacred by Timur's troops.

Timur conquers the Empire of The Black Sheep Turkomans, in present-day Armenia, and the Jalayirid Dynasty in present-day Iraq. Black Sheep ruler Qara Yusuf and Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad flee and take Refuge with the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I.

Scotland resists an English invasion led by Harry Hotspur.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne created County Corporate by Henry IV.

In present-day Korea, King Jeongjong of Joseon abdicates in fear of an Attack by his ambitious younger brother, Taejong. Taejong succeeds to the throne.

Prince Parameswara establishes the Malacca Sultanate in present-day western Malaysia and northern Sumatra.

Five year Old Tran An is forced to abdicate as ruler of Dai Viet (now Vietnam) in favour of his maternal grandfather Ho Quy Ly, ending the Tran Dynasty and starting the Hồ Dynasty. Ho Quy Ly subsequently changes the country's name to Dai Ngu.

Hananchi succeeds Min as King of Hokuzan in present-day north Okinawa, Japan.

Wallachia (now southern Romania) resists an invasion by the Ottomans.

Jean Froissart completes his Chronicles detailing the events of the 14th Century in France.

The Medici family becomes powerful in Florence.

Europe is reported to have around 52 Million inhabitants.

The Kingdom of Kongo begins.
Thursday 19 March 2009 - 18:35:52
Year 649
Europe
  • Reccaswinth succeeds his father Chindaswinth as
    king of the Visigoths.


Asia
  • Arabs conquer Cyprus
  • Soga no Kurayamada no Ishikawa Maro is killed by Naka no Ōe no Ōji. (who ever this people are??)




Religion
  • July 5 — Pope Martin I succeeds Pope Theodore I as the 74th pope.
  • Pope Martin I strongly condemns Monothelitism


Thursday 19 March 2009 - 21:53:05
996

Asia
The Niujie Mosque is constructed in Beijing.




Thursday 19 March 2009 - 22:58:32
1415:

April 30 - Frederick I becomes Elector of Brandenburg.

June 5 - The Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated, then Sentenced to be burned at the stake.

July 4 - Pope Gregory XII officially opens the Council of Constance.

July 6 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Konstanz.

July 31 - Henry V of England is informed of the Southampton Plot against HIM; he has the leaders arrested and executed before invading France.

August 14 - Portugal conquers the city of Ceuta from the Moors, initiating the Portuguese Empire and European expansion and colonialism.

October 25 - Battle of Agincourt: Archers of Henry V of England are instrumental in defeating a massed army of French knights.

Avignon Pope Benedict XIII orders all Talmuds to be delivered to the diocese and held until further notice.

The Swiss Confederation takes the territory of Aargau from the house of Habsburg.

The Grand Canal of China is reinstated by this year after it had fallen out of use; restoration began in 1411, and was a response by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to improve the grain shipment system of tribute traveling from south to north towards his new capital at Beijing. Hence, the problem with lack of food supply is sufficed by this year.

The Orthodox Church in the lands of the tsardom of Muskovy (actual Russia) separates from the one in Ukraine and Byelorussia, both claiming to be the true Kiev patriarchate.
Saturday 21 March 2009 - 06:10:47
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Religion




Tuesday 24 March 2009 - 17:45:54
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Roman Empire

  • The governor of Syria, Avidius Cassius, one of Lucius Verus' generals, crosses the Euphrates and invades Parthian territory.
  • Ctesiphon is captured by the Romans, but returned to the Parthians after The End of the war.
  • The Antonine Wall in Scotland is Abandoned by the Romans.
  • A law is passed protecting property brought into a marriage by the wife.
  • Marcus Aurelius gives his daughter Lucilla in marriage to his co-emperor Lucius Verus.
  • Seleucia on the Tigris is destroyed.