1351 AD. In an event that presaged both professional sports and the Thunderdome of the original Mad Max movie, an attempt is made to resolve the Breton Civil War by a combat between thirty champions on each side, known as the "Combat of the Thirty" (even though there were sixty of them). The Blois ...

1351 AD. In an event that presaged both professional sports and the Thunderdome of the original Mad Max movie, an attempt is made to resolve the Breton Civil War by a combat between thirty champions on each side, known as the "Combat of the Thirty" (even though there were sixty of them). The Blois f...

Whoops, skipped a number. 1349 AD: the first wave of the Great Plague gradually peters out throughout Europe.

1350 AD. Philip VI, King of France, had been having a few seriously bad years. He saw his army smashed at Crecy, lost the important city of Calais, and watched helplessly as his kingdom was ravaged by plague - which killed his wife. But then a bright and radiant star appeared in his court - the stun...

1317 AD was not a historically significant year.

I cannot tell whether or not this remark is ironic or not. Umm... okay. Let's put it this way. If someone was suggesting that girls should be forced to have Norplant at 16 which would be reversed later only if the girl/young lady/woman/birthing person proved herself responsible and worthy of parent...

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed May 04, 2022 5:44 pm

the state could simply mandate that all young men must get a vasectomy at 16. Then later, if he's deemed to be a responsible adult, fit for fatherhood, he can have it reversed.

Apparently the door of "gender equality" does not swing both ways where bodily autonomy is concerned.

1274 - A Mongol invasion of Japan is thwarted in part by the "divine wind" - or "Kamikaze" - a storm which destroys much of the Mongols' invasion fleet.

1260 - The Mamluks are victorious over the Mongols in the Battle of Ain Jalut, the Mongols' first serious defeat.