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1434 ( MCDXXXIV) fue un año común comenzado en viernes del calendario juliano . Acontecimientos. 27 de abril - Ejecución en Génova de Vincentello d'Istria, rebelde corso. 19 de mayo - Simón Vela encuentra en la Peña de Francia la imagen de la Virgen de la Peña de Francia.
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Year 1434 ( MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. January–December. April 14 – The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral in Nantes, France, is laid. [1] May 30 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Utraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.
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- The Year China Discovered The World
- The Year A Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited The Renaissance
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Menzies was born in London, England, and his family moved to China when he was three weeks old. He was educated at Orwell Park Preparatory School in Suffolk, and Charterhouse. Menzies dropped out of school when he was fifteen years old and joined the Royal Navy in 1953. He never attended university and had no formal training in historical studies. ...
Writing and research
Gavin Menzies had the idea to write his first book after he and his wife Marcella visited the Forbidden City for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Menzies noticed that they kept encountering the year 1421 and, concluding that it must have been an extraordinary year in world history, decided to write a book about everything that happened in the world in 1421. Menzies spent years working on the book and, by the time it was finished, it was a massive volume spanning 1,500 pages. Menzies se...
Publication, claims, and commercial success
The finished copy of the book was published in 2002 as 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (published as 1421: The Year China Discovered America in the United States). The book is written informally, as a series of vignettes of Menzies' travels around the globe examining what he claims is evidence for his "1421 hypothesis", interspersed with speculation regarding the achievements of Admiral Zheng He's fleet.Menzies states in the introduction that the book is an attempt to answer the que...
Criticism
Mainstream Sinologists and professional historians have universally rejected 1421 and the alternative history of Chinese exploration described in it as pseudohistory. A particular point of objection is Menzies' use of maps to argue that the Chinese mapped both the Eastern and Western hemispheres as they circumnavigated the world in the 15th century. The widely respected British historian of exploration Felipe Fernández-Armesto dismissed Menzies as "either a charlatan or a cretin". Sally Gamin...
In 2008 Menzies released a second book entitled 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance. In it Menzies claims that in 1434 Chinese delegations reached Italy and brought books and globes that, to a great extent, launched the Renaissance. He claims that a letter written in 1474 by Paolo dal Pozzo Toscane...
28 de mar. de 2009 · En su libro "1434" Gavin Menzies aboga que fue la cultura china la instigadora del origen del Renacimiento europeo. Bases de esta teoría y dudas que generó.
Die radikaleren Taboriten unter der Führung von Andreas Prokop sowie die Soldaten der Waisen, geführt von Jan Čapek ze Sán unterliegen den Truppen der Utraquisten unter Kelchbruder Diviš Bořek z Miletínka und katholischen Söldnern Kaiser Sigismunds in Böhmen. Andreas Prokop fällt in der Schlacht.
1434 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1434th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 434th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1430s decade.
