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Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

Storm flood ravages Dutch coast

Events Before

  1. Zen teacher Ketsugan performs exorcisms to free Aizōji Temple in Fukushima, Japan

    Zen teacher Ketsugan performs exorcisms to free Aizōji Temple in Fukushima, Japan

  2. Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons

    Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons

  3. Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre

    Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre

  4. Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated by the English on the banks of the river Yonne in Bu

    Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated by the English on the banks of the river Yonne in Burgundy

  5. Louis XI is born

    Louis XI is born

Events After

  1. 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.

  2. Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

    Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail

  3. 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.

  4. Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland

    Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland

  5. 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

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