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Jerusalem is situated on the southern spur of a plateau in the Judaean Mountains, which include the Mount of Olives (East) and Mount Scopus (North East). The elevation of the Old City is approximately 760 m (2,490 ft). [325] The whole of Jerusalem is surrounded by valleys and dry riverbeds ( wadis ).
The 1455 papal conclave (April 4–8) elected Cardinal Alfons Borja Pope Callixtus III following the death of Pope Nicholas V. The conclave was the first in the Apostolic Palace, the site of all but five papal conclaves thereafter. [1] [2] The conclave was also the first to feature accessus voting (votes cast in accessit ), derived from a ...
1455. 1455 ( MCDLV) var ett normalår som började en onsdag i den Julianska kalendern .
AD 13 ( XIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silius and Plancus (or, less frequently, year 766 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination AD 13 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini ...
1415: Cornish archers present at the Battle of Agincourt [26] 1455–1487: Wars of the Roses, the feud between the Courtenays and Bonvilles in Cornwall and Devon. 1469–72: Rebuilding of St Petroc's Church, Bodmin. 1473–74: The siege of St Michael's Mount (30 September 1473 – February 1474).
1555. The House of Trastámara ( Spanish, Aragonese and Catalan: Casa de Trastámara) was a royal dynasty which first ruled in the Crown of Castile and then expanded to the Crown of Aragon from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period . They were an illegitimate cadet line of the House of Burgundy who acceded to power in Castile in 1369 ...
Humphrey Stafford (died 1486) Sir Humphrey Stafford (c. 1427 – 8 July 1486) of Grafton Manor in Worcestershire, was an English nobleman who took part in the War of the Roses on the Yorkist side. He was executed by Henry VII following his fighting for Richard III and his role in the Stafford and Lovell rebellion .
