August 31, 1422: Death of Henry V, King of England
On 10 June 1421, Henry sailed back to France for what would be his last military campaign. From July to August, Henry’s forces besieged and captured Dreux, thus relieving allied forces at Chartres. That October, his forces lay siege to Meaux, capturing it on 2 May […]
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Worldtimelines.org.uk places 2,000 artifacts from museums around the British Isles in their geographical and chronological context. You can navigate using interactive maps and timelines by various regions. If you’re looking at the British Isles, for instance, it breaks that region down further into Northern England, Central England, Southern England, etc., and then each of those […]
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I didn’t get around to posting this over the weekend, but I wanted to go back to September 11 for a look at that day in history. One of the most well-known events (made popular by the movie Braveheart) was the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
The Battle of Stirling Bridge took place on September 11, 1297. […]
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World-ology is a site for interactive maps, timelines, and articles of world history. The interactive maps are especially interesting as they chart a region, period, or event in history along a specific timeline. As you change the dates on the timeline, the maps change correspondingly. Naturally, I find the Middle Ages map the most useful […]
Filed under: Medieval Timeline, Middle Ages History, Medieval History on September 13th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
On this date, July 14, in medieval history:
The Bayeux Tapestry is first presented at the dedication of Bishop Odo’s cathedral
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On this date, June 3, in medieval history:
1083 - Henry IV of Germany attacks Rome and captures St. Peter’s Cathedral
1098 - The crusaders capture Antioch (1st Crusade)
1162 - St. Thomas Becket is consecrated Archbishop by Henry II
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On this date, April 19th, in medieval history:
1154 - Pope Leo IX dies
1390 - King Robert II of Scotland dies and is succeeded by his son Robert III
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On this date, March 4, in medieval history:
1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany
1193 - Saladin dies
1394 - The birth of Prince Henry the Navigator
1461 - Edward IV ascends to the English throne
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On this day, February 17, in medieval history:
1461 - The Second Battle of St. Albans: One of the battles fought during the Wars of the Roses. On this particular day, the Lancastrian army led by the Queen Margaret of Anjou defeated the Yorkist faction led by the Earl of Warwick. The Lancastrians freed King Henry VI […]
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Husbandry
[huhz-buhn-dree]
1) the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
2) the science of raising crops or food animals.
From Walter of Henly on Animal Husbandry, c. 1275:
Sort out your cattle once a year between Easter and Whitsuntide—that is to say, oxen, cows, and herds—and let those that are not to […]
Filed under: Medieval Timeline, Middle Ages History, Medieval Glossary on February 5th, 2010 | No Comments »
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