796 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



Barkook, head of the Borgite Memluk dynasty, introduced some changes in the administration 

 of government. Besides a college built by Barkook; the canal Bahr Scherkieh leading through the 

 middle of the Labyrinth, (according to Lepsius eg. and sin. 94) is also attributed to him. 



A mosque and tomb were built by Barkook: from this date (Wilk. theb. and eg. 307), — the 

 tombs of the Borgite Memluk kings are outside and Eastward from Cairo, being the mosque-like 

 buildings so conspicuous in the Desert. 



" 1383 A. D." (ann. Jap., and art de verif.), Jensu II. succeeded by his eldest son Gokomatz, now 

 one hundred and first dairo of Japan. 



"In this year (= 16th year houng-wou of Tai-tsou," Remus, mel. iii. 92), officials sent to Cam- 

 bodia, authorized to confer titles on the king, and examine the passports of Chinese travellers. 



"Not earlier than this date" (Tyrwhitt, and Way ed. pr. pm., Skeat gives "about 1387")! Chau- 

 cer writing his Canterbury Tales. 



Dianthus plumarius of Switzerland and the region around. The piggesnie of Chaucer 

 c. t. 3268, — referred by Prior to one or more species of pink, may be compared : D. plumarius has 

 been long cultivated in Britain, and since the time of Ray, and Dillenius, has be-en found growing 

 spontaneously in the South (Wats., and Bab.). Except in die cultivated state, is unknown in France 

 and Westward, occurring however in Italy and Austria (Hall, helvet. 897, Koch, and A. Dec). 



"1384 A. D. = 17th year of the 'houng-wou' of Tai-tsou IV " (Chinese chron. table), begin- 

 ning of the Sixty-eighth cycle. 



"The same year" (Alst.), Joannes V. succeeded by Andronicus.IV. ; by consent of the Turks, 

 sixty-fifth Byzantine emperor. 



" 13S5 A. D." (Lubke and Lutrow), victory gained by king Juan of Portugal at Aljaruta. In 

 commemoration, he built the church of Batalha near Lisbon. 



" In this year" (J. R. Hind, and Hurab. cosm. i. 1), a comet whose orbit is known from Chinese 

 observations. 



"In this year" (Spreng. hist. med. vii 7), Joannes de Dondis, a son of Jacobus, writing the 

 Herbolario, a botanical work. — He died in " 1395." 



" 1386 A. D." (Lubke and Lutrow), the cathedral at Milan commenced : — finished " in 1807." 



"In the time of the Inca Pachacutec " (Markham edit. Ciez. p. 242), Chimu-chanchu ruling the 

 Yuncas in the valley of Chimu. After a long war with the Inca's son Yupanqui, Chimu-chanchu con- 

 sented to abandon his own idols, "figures of fish and other animals," and "worship the sun." The 

 remains of the city of Chimu — between Truxillo and the sea, "cover a space of three quarters of a 

 league, exclusive of the great squares," and among the ruins is a palace built of stone and adobes 

 "fifty yards high" (Rivero antiq. Peruv.). 



" In this year (= 19th year houng-wou of Tai-tsou," Remus, mel. iii. 93), Lieou-min, Thang-king, 

 and other Chinese officials sent to Cambodia with porcelain vases for the king as a recompense. 



" 1387 A. D." (Klapr. mem. i. 351), the Pheng hou Islands or Pescadores, between China and 

 Formosa, ravaged and their inhabitants removed by the Chinese. 



"The same year (= 20th houng-wou of Tai-tsou," Remus, mel. iii. 93), on the return of Thang- 

 king and his companions, an ambassador with tribute, consisting of " fifty-nine " elephants and " sixty 

 thousand pounds " of perfumes, sent to China by Thsan-liei-phao-pi-sie-kan-phou-tche, king of Cam- 

 bodia. 



"Nov. 16th '' (Markham p. xxxvii), after the submission of Ispahan, a tumult excited by an 

 inconsiderate youth : Timour in consequence ordered a general massacre of the inhabitants. He 

 next marched to Shiraz, and had there a complimentary interview with the poet Hafiz, — who died 

 " two years afterwards." 



" In this year" (Alst.), Andronicus IV. succeeded by Manuel II.; by consent of the Turks, sixty- 

 sixth Byzantine emperor. 



"The same year" (Alst. p. 216), marriage of Sigismund son of the emperor Carolus IV., leading 

 to his becoming king of Hungary. 



" The same year " (Nicol.), a synod at Mayence. Thirty-six heretics were condemned to be 

 burned. 



" 1388 A. D." (Alst. p. 226), Murad succeeded by Bajazct, fourth Turkish sultan. 



"Oct. 23d (= 790 A. H. Ramzan 3" of Ferishtah, as. res. vii. 175, and Elph.), Firuz Toghlak 

 succeeded by Gheias-u-din Toghlak II., now seventeenth sultan of Delhi. 



"Nov. 10th " (Nicol.), a synod at Palermo. " For the reformation of the clergy." 



In this year(= "1313 an. jav.," Raffles), Mulana Ibrahim an Arab missionary having established 

 himself with other Mohammedans at Leran in Java, arrival there of his cousin the raja of Chermen 

 in Sabrang bringing a daughter whom he proposed to present in marriage to king Angka Wijaya. 

 After founding a mosque the raja made a visit to Majapahit, and returning to Leran his daughter with 

 other relatives within a few days sickened and died and he hastily left the island. Mulana Ibrahim 



