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1358 Orclwii,-the secornW^kish emperor, dying, Iiisson and successor Amurath pursued the conquestsbegun by Solyinan, mastered several parts ofThrace, and fixed the seat of his empire ai Adria-nople.

1360 A final peace concluded between France and Eng-land, very disadvantageous to the former.

The king of Fiance ransomed from the English for^ 300,0001.

1363 Urban V. succeeds Innocent VI. in the popedom.

1360 Andronicus, the Greek emperor's eldest son, having

contracted an intimacy with Coniuzes, Amu-rath’s eldest son, they conspire to murder their re-spective fathers, and to live in strict union be-tween themselves. They are discovered, havetheir eyes pulled out, and are then cast intoprison.

1362 Blind Andronicus, by the help of the Genoese ofGalata, escapes, and makes war upon his father,takes Constantinople, and gets his father andbrother Manuel, w ho had been declared bis suc-cessor, into his power, and imprisons him.

1364 Old Andronicus and Manuel escape out of prison,

upon which blind Andronicus yields up the em-pire to them, to prevent civil dissensions.

Four kings entertained at the Lord Mayor’s feast,viz. England, France, Scotland, and Cyprus.

1365 Amurath, emperor of the Turks, being treacherously

slain, is succeeded by his son Bajazet, who pur-suing the former conquests in Europe, addsThessaly, Macedon, Phocis, Peloponnesus, My.sia, and Bulgaria, to them.

1369 The Bulgarians by the assistance of the Greeks,having shook otF the Hungarian yoke, attemptthe recovery of Adrianople, under the conduct oftheir king Sasmenos, from the Turks, but are de-feated by Amurath.

Bajazet enters Bulgaria with a great army, makes anentire conquest of it, and turns it into a Turkishprovince, in which state it remains to this day.

1371 Gregory XI. succeeds Urban V. in the popedom.

1374 A great famine afflicted Italy for two years.

1376 Edward, the black prince, dies of a consumption,

June 8, and is buried at Canterbury.

1377 Edward HI. dies on the 22d day of June, in the

fifty-first year of his reign, and is succeeded in thekingdom of England by his grandson Kichard II.

Pope Gregory, contrary to the will of the Frenchking, departed from Avignon, and returned toRome, 70 years after the papal sec was first trans-ferred from Italy to France.

1378 Charles IV. emperor of Germany, came into France,

and being received with great honour and tri-umph, established with the king and his nobles aperpetual treaty of amity and friendship.

Upon the death of Gregory XI. a dreadful schismarose in the Latin church for the election of anew bishop, the cardinals of Italy choosing anItalian bishop, and naming h ; m Urban VI. andthe French cardinals electing Robert, cardinal ofBasle, under the name of Clement VII. Thisschism continued for the space of 39 years, Ger-many, Hungarv, England, Pannonia, and Italy,siding with the Italian election, and France, Spain,and Catalonia, holding with the French election.

1381 An insurrection in Englan h of 60,01)0 persons,headed by Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, Jack Shepherd,Tom Miller, Bob Carter, &c. which is quelled byWilliam Walworth, lord mayor of London.

1383 Tope Urban published in England and other coun-tries free remission a pen A et culpa, to as many aswould contribute any thing, or else take up arms,against the Clementines. This measure was alsoadopted by Clement against the Urbanists.

A. M. A. 1).

5389 1385 Battle of Juberoth in which king John of Portugal

defeated the king of Castile.

5392 13S8 Battle of Olterboni between Hotspur and the earl

of Douglas.

5394 1390 Boniface IX, succeeds Urban VI. in the papal see

at Rome.

5395 1391 sifter the death of Clement, the antipope, Bt ned-ct

XIII. was chosen by the French cardinals.

Bajazet sends to Andronicus, demanding a yearlytribute and bis son Manuel to attend him in hiswars; which the Greek emperor is obliged toperform.

5396 1392 Andronicus, emperor of Constantinople, dies, and

is succeeded by his son Manuel, then at Bajazet’scourt, who comes away without taking his leave ;upon which the Turkish emperor immediatelycomes into Thrace, and destroys with fire anilsword all the country around Constantinople,which lie invested by sea and land. The Latin*princes send Sigismund, king of Hungarv, amtJohn, count of Nevers, with an army of 130,006men, to his assistance, who besieging Nicopolis,.Bajazet raises the siege of Constantinople, amigoes against them. Tliev engage ; the Turkishemperor conquers, kills 20,000, took their camp-baggage, count Nevers, 300 great officers, ipid20,000 soldiers.

5397 1393 Bajazet renews the siege of Constantinople, which

to to he finding resolutely defended, privately agrees

5406 1 402 with John, the son of blind Andronicus, to set

him upon the throne, Bajazet to have Constanti-nople, and John to remove the imperial seat toPeloponnesus. This signed and sealed, Bajazetacquaints the inhabitants he would retire, if theywould drive out Manuel and set John upon thethrone. The city was upon the point of fallinginto a civil war," when Manuel, for the sake ofpeace, sends to John, then in the Turkish camp,and offers to resign upon leave given him, hiswife, and children, to retire where they thoughtfit. 'Plus was agreed to, and John went into thecity, and Manuel went first to Venice, then toother courts, soliciting help against the 'l urks.John was crowned; Bajazet reminds him of theiragreement, and pressed him to surrender Constan-tinople, and retire into Peloponnesus. The citi-zens refused; Bajazet renews the siege, and re-duced them to extreme necessities ; at which cri-tical juncture of the Greek empire, Bajazet re-ceives information that Tamerlane, the great Tar-tarian prince, who had subdued all Persia, wascoming against him with an immense armv. Uponhearing this the r I urkish emperor raises the siege,and marches against Tamerlane with an immenseforce. '1 hese two huge armies engage each otherin the plains of Angoria in Galatia, the 2Sth ofJuly, A. D. 1401, where after cutting a great num-ber of I’ajazet’s men to pieces, himself was taken*prisoner, put into an iron cage, and shewn,.wherehe is said to have dashed out his own brains in A. R.1402. In the battle of Angoria, 800,000 men, itis said, was engaged, and the Turks lost 20,000.

5403 1399 Richard II. king, of England, taken prisoner by

Ilcnrv, rluke of Lancaster, and sent to tHe Tower,

; Scpt.'l. He resigned his crown 28 days after,.

and is succeeded by Henry IV. grandson to Ed-

‘ ward III. and first of the Lancastrian race.

The order of the Bath instituted at the coronationof Henry PV. king of England.

5404 1400 Richard II. the deposed king of England, murdered

at Poinfret Castle, Feb. 18.

5405 1401 The bishop of Rome published a law that no priest

should be admitted to any benefice until he had.paid the first-fruits of the same..

Manuel