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May 13, 2020 · Bray was the scene of a decisive and bloody conflict in AD 1402. A fearsome prospect In late summer AD 1402, a large group of O’Bryne clansmen accompanied by O’Meagher mercenaries from Co. Tipperary were camped on open ground just north of Little Bray.
The siege of Smyrna (December 1402) was fought between the Knights of Rhodes, who held the harbour and sea-castle of Smyrna (now İzmir) in western Anatolia, and the army of the Turco-Mongol emir Timur. The Turco-Mongols blockaded the harbour and attacked the fortifications with stone-throwing siege engines, while the defenders, numbering only ...
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Year 140 ( CXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hadrianus and Caesar (or, less frequently, year 893 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 140 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno ...
May 22, 2016 · History. Medieval. May 22, 2016 Julia Dzhak, Guest Author. Bayezid I captured and taken to Tamerlane. The Battle of Ankara was fought on the 20th of July 1402. Two of the greatest rulers of their time – Bayezid I The Thunderbolt, the Ottoman Sultan, and Emperor Tamerlane, the Mongolian conqueror.
Jan 20, 2014 · Manuel II Palaeologus in Paris (1400-1402): Theology, Diplomacy, and Politics. Charalambos Dendrinos. Greeks, Latins, and Intellectual History 1204-1500: Bibliotheca 11 (2011) Abstract. The end of the fourteenth century found the Byzantine Empire in a critical state. With the advance of the Ottoman forces and the defeat of the Christian ...
GORDON, Sir ADAM de (d. 1402), warrior, was son and heir of Sir John de Gordon, a knight distinguished in border warfare. In the ‘raid of Roxburgh’ (1377), when the Earl of March massacred all the English who had come to the annual fair, Gordon was a principal assistant, in revenge for which a band of English raiders broke in upon his lands ...
