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This mid 14th century work compiled during the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty ( before 1375, when its co-editor Liu Ji died ) stated that mines were made of cast iron and were spherical in shape, filled with either ' magic gunpowder ', ' poison gunpowder ', or ' blinding and burning gunpowder ', any one of these compositions being suitable for use.
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The Black Death killed half of Bodmin's population in the mid 14th century ( 1500 people ).
Gunpowder production in Britain appears to have started in the mid 14th century AD with the aim of supplying The English Crown.
Documentary and archeological evidence indicate that Arab or Indian traders introduced gunpowder, gonnes, muskets, blunderbusses, and cannon to the Javanese, Acehnese, and Batak via long established commercial trade routes around the early to mid 14th century CE.
This was followed by the Little Ice Age, from the 13th or 14th century to the mid 19th century, which was a period of significant cooling, though not everywhere as severe as previous times during neoglaciation.
Following the resurgence in the 14th and 15th centuries of the Gaelic nobility, the project was suspended, not to be resumed until the mid 16th century by the House of Tudor.
The Ruthenian population formed a majority in GDL from the time of the GDL's expansion in the mid 14th century ; and the adjective " Lithuanian ", besides denoting ethnic Lithuanians, from early times denoted any inhabitant of GDL, including Slavs and Jews.
This claim was made by Jiao Yu in his Huolongjing Quanzhi ( Fire-drake Manual in One Complete Volume ), his preface written in 1412 AD ( although the book was originally published in the mid 14th century ), and that Zhuge had used not only " fire weapons " but land mines in the Battle of Hulugu Valley against the forces of Sima Yi and his son Sima Zhao of the Wei Kingdom.
The Chinese ' self-tripped trespass land mine ' from the Huolongjing, compiled by Jiao Yu and Liu Ji ( 14th century ) | Liu Ji in the mid 14th century.
The indigenous population was quickly converted and the first mosque in the Philippines was built in the mid 14th century in the town of Simunul.
The great hall at Penshurst Place, Kent, built in the mid 14th century.
The Assyrian city of Nineveh became one of Mitanni's vassals for nearly a century until the mid 14th century BC, when the Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I reclaimed it in 1365 BC while overthrowing the Mitanni Empire.
It is notable that the arrival of the Ambivalent mode of child-rearing preceded the start of the Renaissance ( mid 14th century ) by only one or two generations, and the arrival of the Socializing mode coincided with the Age of Enlightenment, which began in the late 18th century.
The Holy Roman Empire controlled the land for nearly 1, 000 years, and between the mid 14th century and 1918 most of Slovenia was under Habsburg rule.
From the mid to late 14th, through early 18th centuries, the Ottoman devşirme – janissary system enslaved and forcibly converted to Islam an estimated 500, 000 to one million non – Muslim ( primarily Balkan Christian ) adolescent males.
The Codex Manesse is an anthology of the works of a total of about 135 Minnesingers of the mid 12th to early 14th century.
In the mid 14th century, the castle and town came into the possession of the House of Lancaster through the marriage of John of Gaunt to Blanche of Lancaster.
From the mid 14th century BC through to the 11th century BC, much of Canaan ( particularly the north, central and eastern regions of Syria and the north western Mediterranean coastal regions ) fell to the Middle Assyrian Empire, and both Egyptian and Hittite influence waned as a result.
Ninjas possibly originated around the 14th century, but were not widely known or used till the 15th century and carried on being hired till the mid 18th century.
By the end of the Wars of Independence in the mid 14th century, Caerlaverock had been regained by the Maxwells, with Sir Robert Maxwell rebuilding much of the castle between 1373 and 1410.
To make matters worse the decimation of the population caused by the Black Death in the mid 14th century made it difficult to recruit new lay brothers for manual labour.
A cloth hall and belfry were erected on the market square in the mid 14th century.
In the mid 14th century, during the Black Death, and after the Hussite Wars in the early 15th century, many thousands were buried in the abbey cemetery, so it had to be greatly enlarged.
A building meant to serve as the town hall, built in the mid 14th century, was used by the Reichskammergericht as their seat and offices from 1689 to 1806, after many remodellings.
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After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.
The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.
The social system of " courtly love ", as gradually elaborated by the Provençal troubadours from the mid twelfth century, soon spread.
Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid 7th century AD, and Assyrian identity, personal names and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still contain many Akkadian loan words ) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day.
Local cuisine patterns had established by the mid 18th century.
These were followed by significant numbers of freed Africans in the War of 1812, Irish immigrants in the mid 19th century and Dutch immigrants after World War II.
For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.
By the Roman period brass was being deliberately produced from metallic copper and zinc minerals using the cementation process and variations on this method continued until the mid 19th century.
By the mid late 18th century developments in cheaper zinc distillation such as John-Jaques Dony's horizontal furnaces in Belgium and the reduction of tariffs on zinc as well as demand for corrosion resistant high zinc alloys increased the popularity of speltering and as a result cementation was largely abandoned by the mid 19th century.
Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late 19th century.
If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.
Until the mid 19th century most boats were of all natural materials ; primarily wood although reed, bark and animal skins were also used.
By the mid 19th century, many boats had been built with iron or steel frames but still planked in wood.
In the mid 20th century aluminium gained popularity.
Boxing evolved from 16th and 18th century prizefights ( detailed further down the page ), largely in Great Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid 19th century, again initially in Great Britain and later in the United States.
Since Daniel was a statesman during the Persian conquests, the Book of Daniel could have been written in a period when the Persians had their greatest influence on Aramaic, believed to be in the mid 6th century BC.
In the mid 3rd century, the Bastarnae were part of a Gothic-led grand coalition of lower Danube tribes which inflicted immense damage on the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire in a series of massive invasions.
During the mid 1st century AD, the Zarubintsy and Lukashevka cultures came to an end in their true form, possibly due to Sarmatian invasions and perturbations of central European trade due to Caesar's invasion of Gaul ( the ' heart ' of the La Tene culture ).
However, after a gap of 150 years, there is a final mention of Bastarnae in the mid 5th century.
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