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Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland

Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland

Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland

Events Before

  1. Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre

    Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre

  2. Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

    Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

  3. BC Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).

    Thutmose III (variously also spelled Tuthmosis or Thothmes, Ancient Egyptian: 𓅝𓄟𓄤𓆣), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, (1479–1425 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.

  4. Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

    Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

  5. Pope Martin V founds the University of Leuven (Netherlands), today one of Europe's oldest universities [1]

    The Old University of Leuven is the name historians give to the university, or studium generale, founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium), in 1425.

Events After

  1. Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut's marriage to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester invalid

    Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut's marriage to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester invalid

  2. Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, the first organized witch trials

    Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, the first organized witch trials

  3. English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army

    Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the…

  4. Duke Philip the Good (33) weds Isabella of Portugal (32) by proxy (he in Burgundy, she in Portugal)

    Duke Philip the Good (33) weds Isabella of Portugal (32) by proxy (he in Burgundy, she in Portugal)

  5. Battle of the Herrings fought during Hundred Years' War when French and Scottish troops unsuccessfully attack English co

    Battle of the Herrings fought during Hundred Years' War when French and Scottish troops unsuccessfully attack English convoy (carrying barrels of herrings) near Rouvray

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