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1400 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry IV (House of Lancaster) is king of England Modern-day scholars estimate that between 1400-1472, there were only a few thousands maps in circulation in Europe (after print, that number rose to an estimated 56,000 between 1472-1500) (Germany, a Nation in It's Own Time, Pg. 12) Geoffrey...
(Feature Photo: King Richard II of England encountering the soldiers of the Earl of Northumberland, Miniature illustration from the book The Capture and Death of King Richard II; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1370 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England 1371 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of...
(Feature Photo: An illustration of Acamapichtli, the first Aztec king, from the Tovar Codex, attributed to the fifteenth-century Mexican Jesuit Juan de Tovar; The codex contains details of the rights and ceremonies of the Aztecs, also known as the Mexicana; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1350 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king...
(Feature Photo: Portrait of King Edward III in the Garter Book; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1330 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England (House of Plantagenet) 1331 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward III is king of England (House of Plantagenet) The Islamic town of Kilwa Kisiwani is hitting its peak...
1300 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward I "Longshanks" is king of England – Philip IV is king of France – Andrey III is on the Russian throne In Constantinople, an icon of St. John the Baptist is painted on gold-leaf on a linen-faced panel, it was probably painted for the personal devotions of someone...
(Feature Photo: Conwy Castle in Wales, built by Edward I and opened in 1283; Photo taken in 2012; Credit: Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons) 1270 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry III is king of England – Richard of Cornwall is king of Germany (also called king of the Romans) 1271 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry III is king of...
(Feature Photo: Easter Island heads; Credit: Mike W., Wikimedia Commons) 1250 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry III is kings of England – Louis IX is king of France – Andrey II is on the Russian throne – Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe is flourishing (names of kings not recorded) The university of...
(Feature Photo: The Great Hall in Winchester, England, that Henry III, king of England constructed; Credit: Graham Horn, Wikimedia Commons) 1220 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry III is king of England – Philip II Augustus is king of France – Yuri II is on the Russian throne 1221 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry...
(Feature Photo: A manuscript illustration showing The Battle of Lincoln in 2017 and the death of Thomas, Count of Perche (left), by Matthew Paris) 1200 RULERS & ROYALTY: John I is king of England – Llywelyn Fawr (The Great) ap Iorweth becomes the Welsh king of Gwynedd (east Gwyedd from 1195...
Richard the Lion-heart didn't speak English. Or he most likely didn't. In fact, he didn't care much for England. The end of the twelfth-century finishes off with him pretty much at war with pretty much everyone. The '80s and '90s also saw the end of the great West African Ghana Empire,...
(Feature Photo: Palace of Poitiers, the seat of the counts of Poitou and dukes of Aquitaine from the 10th to the 12th centuries) 1150 RULERS & ROYALTY: Stephen is on the throne of England – Louis VII is king of the West Franks ______________________________ Chess Anyone? The Lewis Chessman are...
(Feature Photo: Illustration of the crowning of King Louis VI from the 14th century Grandes Chroniques de France) 1120 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry I is king of England – Louis VI is king of the West Franks – Henry V is the Holy Roman/German emperor, Matilda (Henry I’s daughter) is his queen – John...
(Feature Photo: Late Medieval picture from the 15th century of the Battle of Tinchebrai, by the Rohan Master, an anonymous French illuminator who was active in the first half of the 15th century, after his main work, the Rohan Hours; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1100 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry I...
(Feature Photo: Illustration by an unknown author of the Jerusalem during the First Crusade in 1099; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1080 RULERS & ROYALTY: William I the Conqueror is king of England – Sancho Ramírez is king of Pamplona (modern-day Basque region in Spain) – Alfonzo VI is king of León...
1050 The Berber peoples of northwest Africa The Berber peoples that have been indigenous to northwest Africa since 2000 B.C. are still living in that area but are broken up into tribes and no longer have great kingdoms like they once did during the Roman era There is division among them and this...
(Feature Photo: A painting of Habsburg Castle, by Johann Heinrich Müller; the castle was built around 1020; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1020 RULERS & ROYALTY: Canute is king of the English – Sancho III is king of Pamplona (later called Navarre, in present-day Basque region of Spain) – Robert II is king of West Francia (soon to...
