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The 1344 Yellow River flood was a major natural disaster during the Yuan dynasty of Imperial China. The impact was devastating both for the peasants of the area as well as the leaders of the empire. The Yuan dynasty was waning, and the emperor conscripted enormous teams to build new embankments for the river. The harsh working conditions helped ...
Wikipedia A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on March 26, 2016 , March 26, 2019 , and March 26, 2024 . This article contains a translation of Sitio de Algeciras (1342-1344) from es.wikipedia .
King Chungmok of Goryeo (15 May 1337 – 25 December 1348, r. 1344–1348), born Wang Heun (Korean: 왕흔; Hanja: 王昕), was the 29th king of the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. Biography [ edit ] He was the eldest son of King Chunghye , and his mother was Princess Deoknyeong .
John Wadham. Sir John Wadham (c.1344–1412) was a Justice of the Common Pleas from 1389 to 1398, during the reign of King Richard II (1377–1399), selected by the King as an assertion of his right to rule by the advice of men appointed of his own choice, and one of the many Devonians of the period described by Thomas Fuller in his Worthies of ...
Jianwen Emperor. The Jianwen Emperor (5 December 1377 – ?), personal name Zhu Yunwen ( 朱允炆 ), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Huizong of Ming ( 明惠宗) and by his posthumous name as the Emperor Hui of Ming ( 明惠帝 ), was the second emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1398 to 1402. Zhu Yunwen's father was Zhu ...
1345 →. United Nations Security Council resolution 1344, adopted unanimously on 15 March 2001, after reaffirming resolutions 1298 (1999), 1308 (2000), 1312 (2000) and 1320 (2000) on the situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia, and 1308 (2000), the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) until ...
The half florin (also known as a leopard) was an attempt by English King Edward III to produce a gold coinage suitable for use in Europe as well as in England. The half florin was largely based on contemporary European gold coins, with a value of three shillings. The gold used to strike the coins was overvalued, resulting in the coins being ...
