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Year 1371 was a ... – Edward, the Black Prince, gives up the administration of Aquitaine and returns to England, because of his poor health and heavy debts.
The Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge is completed in Lombardy, and becomes the longest single-arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries. A sermon by a German monk states "the game of cards has come to us this year", and prohibitions against cards are issued by Prince John of Castile , and the cities of Florence and Basel .
The members of the Union of Arras conclude a separate peace with Spain in the Eighty Years' War. Union of Utrecht: Unifies the northern states of the Netherlands. 1580 Treaty of Fleix [note 41] Ends the seventh phase of the French Wars of Religion; recognizes previous treaties granting religious privileges to the Huguenots. Treaty of Plessis ...
16 June – the Treaty of London between England and Portugal is signed and is the oldest active treaty in the world. [1] August – Hundred Years' War: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, launches an invasion of France. [1] Bristol is made a county corporate, the first city outside London to be granted this status. Merton College Library is ...
Military alliances shortly before World War I. Germany and the Ottoman Empire allied after the outbreak of war.. This is the list of military alliances.A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutually protect and support one another militarily in case of a crisis that has not been identified in ...
Although the Castilians had agreed to fund the Black Prince, they failed to do so. The Prince was suffering from ill health and returned with his army to Aquitaine. To pay off debts incurred during the Castile campaign, the prince instituted a hearth tax. Arnaud-Amanieu VIII, Lord of Albret had fought on the Black Prince's side during the war ...
The World Health Professions Alliance is an international organization which represents more than 31 million health care professionals worldwide. [1] The Alliance unites dentistry, medicine, nursing, physical therapy and pharmacy through their representative international organizations, the International Council of Nurses (ICN), [2] the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), [3] World ...
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 194 member states. It is the world's highest health policy setting body and is composed of health ministers from member states. The members of the WHA generally meet every year in May in Geneva at the Palace of Nations, the location ...