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1317 In Europe
Year 1317 (Roman numerals, MCCCXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events December * December 10–December 11, 11 – King Birger, King of Sweden, Birger of Sweden has his brothers, Dukes Eric, Duke of Södermanland, Eric and Valdemar, Duke of Finland, Valdemar, captured and thrown into a dungeon during the Nyköping Banquet, as a revenge for their imprisonment of him in the Håtuna games in 1306. As the dukes soon starve to death in the dungeon, their followers rebel against the king, throwing Sweden into civil war, in which the king is deposed in 1318. Date unknown * The Great Famine of 1315-1317 comes to an end. * Pope John XXII erects the dioceses of Diocese of Luçon, Luçon, Ancient Diocese of Maillezais, Maillezais, and Diocese of Tulle, Tulle and issues the decretal ''Spondent Pariter'' prohibiting alchemy, but not chemistry (which John himself had studied). * A Hungarian document ment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, each letter with a fixed integer value, modern style uses only these seven: The use of Roman numerals continued long after the decline of the Roman Empire. From the 14th century on, Roman numerals began to be replaced by Arabic numerals; however, this process was gradual, and the use of Roman numerals persists in some applications to this day. One place they are often seen is on clock faces. For instance, on the clock of Big Ben (designed in 1852), the hours from 1 to 12 are written as: The notations and can be read as "one less than five" (4) and "one less than ten" (9), although there is a tradition favouring representation of "4" as "" on Roman numeral clocks. Other common uses include year numbers on monuments and buildings and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
