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Nov 9, 2019 · Anonymous, ‘ Mon in the Mone ’. ‘Mon in the Mone’ (i.e. ‘Man in the Moon’) is a medieval poem dating from the early fourteenth century, a good half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pearl poet, John Gower, and the Gawain poet all arrived on the scene and English poetry really came into its own. Mon in the mone stond and strit;
Apr 30, 2019 · The Book of the Duchess is the first major work of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (l. c. 1343-1400 CE), best known for his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, composed in the last twelve years of his life and left unfinished at his death. The Canterbury Tales, first published c. 1476 CE by William Caxton, became so popular that Chaucer's ...
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1. January – Henry IV of Englandstops the Epiphany Rising and kills the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury and the Baron le Despencer, because they tried to have Richard II made as king. 2. February – Henry Percy (Hotspur) leads English army into Scotland. 3. February 14 – Richard II of England dies in Pontefract Castle but we don't know what killed him. King Henry IV might have ordered people to starve him to death. 4. March 23 – Five-year-old Trần Thiếu Đế is forced to stop being the r...
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1. Timur wins against the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. Timur captures the city of Damascuswhat is today Syria. Timur's army kills many of the city's people. 2. Timur conquers the Empire of the Black Sheep Turkomans, in present-day Azerbaijan, and the Jalayirid Dynasty in present-day Iraq. Black Sheep ruler Qara Yusuf and Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad run away and go to live with the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. 3. King Jeongjong of Joseon stops being king because he is afraid his y...
January 13 – Infante John of Portugal, the Constable (d. 1442)May 19 – John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English baron (d. 1462)July 26 – Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester, English noble (d. 1439)December 25 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1487)January 7January 13 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (executed) (b. 1373)January 16 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed)February 14 – King Richard II of England, (probably murdered) (b. 1367)Born in Lincolnshire, Alison Brackenbury later moved to Gloucestershire, where she worked in the family metal finishing business. Her eighth collection of poems, Then (2013), in which the poem “Leap Year” appears, draws on a lifetime’s experiences of rural England, its people and customs. It also hints at the threats to that environment’s survival. Brackenbury …
Year 1400 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The year 1400 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar . Events [ edit ]
Sep 11, 2018 · Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, Iune and September; Twentie and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must adde one. Numerous Elizabethan and Jacobean writers refer to this rhyme in some variant or other, including a few who refer, in Latin, to the ‘bissextus’ or Bissextile year (i.e. a leap year).
Jul 15, 2001 · in the rustling of your leaves. a hundred years from today. 2 Phalgun 1302 (13 February 1896) From Chitra (1896) Translated by Ketaki Kushari Dyson. To mark the year 1400 of the Bengali calendar, this translation was read out by the translator at an event in 1993 jointly organized by the Nehru Centre of the High Commission of India in London ...
