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1384 Deaths
Year 1384 (Roman numerals, MCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * May – September 3 – Siege of Lisbon (1384), Siege of Lisbon by the Crown of Castile, Castilian army, during the 1383–85 Crisis in Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal. * August 16 – The Hongwu Emperor of Ming dynasty, Ming China hears a case of a couple who tore Banknote, paper money notes, while fighting over them. Under the law, this is considered to be destroying stamped government documents, which is to be punished by a caning, caning with a bamboo rod of 100 strokes. However, the Emperor decides to pardon them, on the grounds that it was unintentional. * November 16 – 10-year-old Jadwiga of Poland, Jadwiga is crowned "King" of Poland in Kraków following the death of her father, King Louis I of Hungary, Louis, in 1382. * December 25 – Use of the Spanish era dating system in the C ... [...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] |
