1342 St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe. Following the passage of a Genoa low, the rivers Rhine, Moselle, Main, Danube, Weser, Werra, Unstrut, Elbe, Vltava and their tributaries inundated large areas. Many towns such as Cologne, Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, ...

Came here expecting MM posting, left disappointed.

No idea Octavious, as I am a 10 pound Pom migrant to the lucky country. I can assure you however that I have never required lubricant for self-satisfaction.

Having said that, we should all be wary of the Big Lube lobby.

I'm circumcised, which in the UK is quite rare - but it was due to medical necessity, not some religious or cultural preference. Same. I just re-read this thread and oh lordie. I do humbly apologise for my testy nature and ridiculously strong views as evidenced herein. An interesting, if embarrassi...

1308 Dante Alighieri commences writing The Divine Comedy (and has a lovely little tomb/shrine in Ravenna I visited - great city) King Philip IV of France purchases the Hôtel de Nesle, and builds one of the earliest indoor tennis courts there (and there I was thinking it was a predominantly English i...

1293 Dante Alighieri (author of The Divine Comedy) completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova. and The Hindu Majapahit Empire is founded by Kertarajasa in Java. It benefits from internal conflict and Mongol intervention, to defeat the Singhasari Kingdom and establish the empire 1294 Architect Arnolfo...

1275

The first Statute of Westminster is passed by the English Parliament, establishing a series of laws, including equal treatment of rich and poor, free and fair elections, and the definition of bailable and non-bailable offenses.

1252 Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull "Ad exstirpanda", which authorises the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe. 1253 Henry III meets with the nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of the Magna Carta in ex...

1251 BC—September 7, a solar eclipse on this date, according to legend, marked the birth of legendary Heracles (roman Hercules) at Thebes, Greece

1236 Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III capture Muslim Córdoba from Emir Ibn Hud, as part of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula 1237 Aragonese forces under Bernat Guillem de Montpeller defeat the Muslim army of the Taifa of Valencia at El Puig. The Almohad forces are routed, and many of...

ANGEL NUMBER 1227 Number 1227 is a compilation of the attributes of number 1 blended with the energies of number 2 and number 7. Number 1 promotes new beginnings and starting anew, courage, motivation and taking action, striving forward and progress, self-leadership and initiative, instinct and intu...

Don't know why I couldn't edit my post, but this is from the Year of our Lord 1224 Francis of Assisi, while praying on the mountain of La Verna during a 40-day fast, has a vision, as a result of which he receives the stigmata. Brother Leo, who is with Francis at the time, leaves a clear and simple a...

Francis of Assisi, while praying on the mountain of La Verna during a 40-day fast, has a vision, as a result of which he receives the stigmata. Brother Leo, who is with Francis at the time, leaves a clear and simple account of this event, the first definite account of the phenomenon of stigmata.

1215 AD John, King of England, grants the Magna Carta creating the first form of constitution in history. Ironicly most people know him as the "bad" brother of Richard the Lionheart than for this fact! Ah my friend, what a pretty picture you paint of history: totally unfounded of course. John was a...

You'd probably fill them easier if you actually provided a link to the games...

Year 1206 (MCCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. A few relatively unpostworthy things happened that year.

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Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:19 am

Richard was so chivalric that pardoned the boy for killing him and ordered him to be released.

Uh not so much....
Mercadier, a mercenary captain and Richard's second in command, has Pierre Basile flayed alive and hanged.

1199 (aside from another motorbike)

Richard I besieges the castle of Châlus-Chabrol, and is shot in the left shoulder by the French boy Pierre Basile, and later dies from gangrene, caused by his crossbow wound. So begins the reign of the infamous King John.

1184 Battle of Fimreite: King Sverre of Norway defeats and kills his rival, Magnus V (Erlingsson) near Fimreite. Sverre takes the throne and becomes sole ruler of Norway 1185 East Midlands earthquake occurs. It is the first earthquake in England for which there are reliable reports indicating the da...

1181 King Philip II (Augustus) annuls all loans made by Jews to Christians, and takes a percentage for himself. A year later, he confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris. 1182 Saladin leads an Egyptian expeditionary force from Cairo to Syria. In June, he arrives in Damascus and...