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Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria

Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria

Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria

Events Before

  1. Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people to attack Jews

    Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people to attack Jews

  2. Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain, the surviving Jews are so

    Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain, the surviving Jews are sold into slavery

  3. Korean Confucian scholar and statesman Jeong Mong-ju is assassinated on the Sonjuk Bridge in Gaeseong (now North Korea).

    Korean Confucian scholar and statesman Jeong Mong-ju is assassinated on the Sonjuk Bridge in Gaeseong (now North Korea). A brown spot on the bridge is still said to be his blood.

  4. Assassination attempt on Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, by Pierre de Craon fails

    Assassination attempt on Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, by Pierre de Craon fails

  5. Nanboku-chō, Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan, abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu

    The Nanboku-chō period (南北朝時代, Nanboku-chō jidai), also known as the Northern and Southern Courts period, was a period in Japanese history between 1336 and 1392, during the formative years of the...

Events After

  1. Ekiho exorcises the Zen temple and its surroundings of an old badger

    Ekiho exorcises the Zen temple and its surroundings of an old badger

  2. Cardinal Pedro de Luna of Aragon is chosen as Antipope Benedict XIII

    Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor (1342 – 23 May 1423), known as el Papa Luna or Pope Luna, was an Aragonese nobleman who was antipope with the regnal name Benedict XIII during the Western...

  3. Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops

    Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops

  4. Bishop Frederik of Blankenheim of Utrecht occupies Coevorden

    Bishop Frederik of Blankenheim of Utrecht occupies Coevorden

  5. John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable

    John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in late medieval England's only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown)

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