Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
Here the tempest of battle raged for a few days, and then Moscow followed in the footsteps of Rezdan. From 1238 to 1304. Retreat of Georges II. Desolating March of the Tartars. Capture of Vladimir. Fall of Moscow. Utter Defeat of Georges. Conflict at Torjek. March of the Tartars Toward the South. Subjugation of the Polovtsi. Capture of Kief. Humiliation of Yaroslaf.
Victory soon declared for the gallant men of Bruges; upward of three thousand of the French chivalry, besides common soldiers, were left dead on the field. In 1304, after a long contested battle, the Flemings forced the king of France to release their count, whom he had held prisoner. "I believe it rains Flemings!" said Philip, astonished to see them crowd on him from all sides of the field.
Giovanni Villani tells us that in 1304 the companies and clubs of pleasure, formed for making festival throughout the town of Florence on the 1st of May, contended with each other for the prize of novelty and rarity in sports provided for the people.
The whole of this pile was finished in 1304; but in the seventeenth century there was added at its eastern end the Nieuwerck, an exquisite Renaissance structure supported entirely on a row of slim columns, with tiers of narrow oblong windows, and with elaborate gables of carved stone.
It is in these verses lies all the fame of the Tabard, which it might seem was not a century old when Chaucer lay there. In the year 1304 the Abbot of Hyde, near Winchester, bought two houses here held of the Archbishop of Canterbury by William de Lategareshall.
At each end there is a turret; and the belfry, a square with towers at the corners, rises from the centre of the building. Various additions have been made from time to time to the original Halle des Drapiers since it was finished in the year 1304, and of these the 'Nieuwerck' is the most interesting.
Although jealous of foreigners, England had granted the Venetians liberty to trade in London, Southampton, and some other towns as far back as the year 1304; and their relations had always been cordial, as there were no grounds for jealousy or rivalry between the two peoples; whereas the interference of France, Germany, Austria, and Hungary in the affairs of Italy, had frequently caused uneasiness to Venice, and had on several occasions embroiled her with one or other of the three last named powers.
C'estui-ci est mon fils amé Jesus, Que bien me plaist, ma plaisance est en lui." Students are offered another choice of dates for the beginning of the performance of sacred plays in the open air in Italy, to wit, 1304.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking