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Categoría principal: Fallecidos en 1434. 16 de septiembre - Juan Martínez de Contreras, arzobispo de Toledo. Enrique de Aragón, Marqués de Villena ( Cuenca, 1384 - Madrid, 1434) Luis III de Nápoles (1403-1434), rey titular de Nápoles.
1560 or 1179 or 407. — to —. 阳木虎年. (male Wood- Tiger) 1561 or 1180 or 408. Year 1434 ( MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
- Biography
- 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...
- English
- Marcella Menzies
- Author, retired naval officer
- Pseudohistory
28 de mar. de 2009 · Hoy nos hacemos eco de una historia cuando menos, controvertida: la salida a las librerías de toda España del libro de Gavin Menzies titulado « 1434 » en el que se plantea la posibilidad (o certeza según su autor) de que los conocimientos chinos fueron quienes dieron pie al origen del Renacimiento.
The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, and European monarchs loyal to the Catholic Church, as well as various Hussite factions.
- 30 July 1419 – 30 May 1434
April 14, The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid. May 30, Battle of Lipany in the Hussite Wars. Jan van Eyck paints the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini. Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara. In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
11 de oct. de 2009 · Pero en aquél 1434 otro Papa, Eugenio IV, recibía en la misma capital de la Toscana nada más y nada menos que a una imponente delegación china que, saliendo del Pacífico, había atravesado todo el océano Índico, había cruzado en canal que ya en la Antigüedad lo unía con el Mediterráneo (que en el siglo XIX se reconstruiría con el nombre de Suez) y se presentaba ante el Sumo ...
