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Hace 4 días · 11th century: Early versions of the Bessemer process are developed in China. 11th century: Endless power-transmitting chain drive by Su Song for the development an astronomical clock (the Cosmic Engine) 11th century: Calico was developed in Calicut, India.
Hace 2 días · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
Hace 3 días · To read about the background to these events, see History of Croatia. See also the list of rulers of Croatia and years in Croatia . 7th century. 8th century. 9th century. 10th century. 11th century. 12th century. 13th century. 14th century. 15th century. 16th century.
Hace 3 días · The Venerable Bede never travelled farther than the city of York. He never met a Pope or world leader. He never saw a library better than his own. Bede died in his cell at Jarrow in 735, at the age of 63. He was buried in the church, but in the 11th century, a cleric from Durham stole his bones and placed them with those of St. Cuthbert.
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Hace 5 días · In the 12th century St. John's Hospital had been erected on a 'very poor waste place'. (fn. 11) Apart from the houses within the King's Ditch, the settlement round Barnwell Abbey, whither the Austin canons moved in 1112, (fn. 12) is on land inhabited in pagan Anglo-Saxon times, and there is evidence of an equally ancient origin for the little settlement at Newnham.
Hace 5 días · Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, ISBN: 9780230276468; 368pp.; Price: £20.00. Theresa Earenfight’s new book, Queenship in Medieval Europe, stresses that the medieval royal court could be a woman’s world as much as a man’s. Responding to historiography that has largely identified the concepts of ‘monarchy’ and ‘sovereignty ...
Hace 2 días · House of Lords, the upper chamber of Great Britain’s bicameral legislature. Originated in the 11th century, when the Anglo-Saxon kings consulted witans (councils) composed of religious leaders and the monarch’s ministers, it emerged as a distinct element of Parliament in the 13th and 14th.
