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Nov 9, 2019 · The fourteenth century was, in many ways, the century in which English poetry truly arrived, with the work of Geoffrey Chaucer and the development of Middle English as a supple, vibrant language for vernacular poetry.
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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)People also ask
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Leap Year Poem. Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that has twenty-eight days clear. And twenty-nine in each leap year. This traditional English mnemonic rhyme, of which many variants are commonly used in English-speaking countries, has a long history and was first ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Poems about Leap year at the world's largest poetry site. Ranked poetry on Leap year, by famous & modern poets. Learn how to write a poem about Leap year and share it!
Sep 11, 2018 · 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).
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) The General Prologue When April with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower; When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
LEAP YEAR BY JEFF DOLVEN Promise and fulfillment are real historical events. —Erich Auerbach, “Figura.”1 A chimney, breathing a little smoke. The sun, I can’t see making a bit of pink I can’t quite see in the blue. The pink of five tulips at five p.m. on the day before March first. The green of the tulip stems and leaves
