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Vlad Țepeș (n. 1431, Sighișoara, Regatul Ungariei – d. 14 decembrie 1476, București, Țara Românească ), denumit și Vlad Drăculea (sau Dracula, de către străini), a domnit în Țara Românească în anii 1448, 1456 - 1462 și 1476.
Richard Pole (courtier) Sir Richard Pole, KG (1462 – October 1504) was a supporter and first cousin of King Henry VII of England. He was created a Knight of the Garter and was married to Margaret Plantagenet, a member of the House of York. The marriage reinforced the Tudor alliance between the houses of York and Lancaster .
AD 1 or 1 CE ( I) is the epoch year for the Anno Domini (AD) Christian calendar era, and the 1st year of the 1st century and 1st millennium of the Christian and Common Era (CE). It was a common year starting on Saturday or Sunday, [note 1] a common year starting on Saturday by the proleptic Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday ...
788. Year 788 ( DCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 788th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 788th year of the 1st millennium, the 88th year of the 8th century, and the 9th year of the 780s decade. The denomination 788 for this year ...
First place, 1,462: placed in 1,438 more (mostly in second place) Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104 – after 146 AD) was a Roman charioteer . His existence and career are attested by two highly detailed contemporary inscriptions, used by modern historians to help reconstruct the likely conduct and techniques of chariot racing.
The Samudera Pasai Sultanate ( Malay: كسلطانن سامودرا ڤاساي ), also known as Samudera or Pasai or Samudera Darussalam or Pacem, was a Muslim kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Little evidence has been left to allow for historical study of the kingdom. [1] The kingdom was believed to ...
Anna was the eldest daughter of the elector Frederick I of Saxony (1370–1428) from his marriage to Catherine (1395–1442), daughter of Duke Henry I "the Mild" of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Anna, with a dowry of 19,000 Rhenish gold florins, married on 8 September 1433 in Kassel Landgrave Louis I of Hesse. Their engagement had been announced on the ...
