798 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



Coreans : Tan or Li-tan removed the Seat of government to Han-iang or Seoul, — and his dynasty, 

 called Tsi-tsien, continues to the present day. 



" In this year" (Moomin, and Royle antiq. hind, med.), the Ikhtiarat Buddee, the earliest Persian 

 work on medicines or Materia Medica, completed. 



"June 17th" (Nicol.), a synod at Prague. Secular judges were "forbidden to hinder criminals 

 condemned to death from receiving the Eucharist, if they wished it.'' 



" 1393 A. D." (Alst. p. 307, see also Talvi ii. 3), Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, and the princi- 

 pal part of Bulgaria and Mysia, conquered by the Turks under Bajazet. 



" In or about this year" (Skeat ed. Piers Plowm.), Gower writing his Confessio Amantis. 



Goitiona cavipestris of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Included perhaps in the 

 medicinal b^LdemOyn of Gower, — identified by Galfridus pr. pm. with the "genciana," and the 

 latter described as an "herbe" in Roy. ms. 18. a. vi (Way) : C. campestris is described by Linnaeus ; 

 is known to grow in Italy ("g. c. neapolitana " of Froel.), and throughout middle Europe as far as 

 Denmark (AIL, Roth fl. g., Pers., Engl. bot. pi. 237, and fl. Dan. pi. 367) ; and according to Lindley 

 is "a substitute for the officinal Gentian." 



" 1394 A. D. (= 796 A. H. of Ferisht," Elph.), Nasir-u-din Toghlak succeeded by his son 

 Humayun, and after " forty-five days " by a younger son Mahmud, a minor now twenty-first sultan 

 of Delhi, — and as it proved the last 



" In this year" (Pauth 398 and 405), a map of the Chinese empire completed and presented to 

 Tai-tsou IV. By a census, the population of China found to consist of " 60,545,000 persons." 



In or about this year, and in "July" (Major edit. Zen. p. xliii and 12), voyage of Nicolo Zeno 

 from the Shetland Islands to Greenland. He describes the canoes of the Esquimaux, and the hot 

 spring utilized by the monks for heating and culinary purposes, and for watering small gardens cov- 

 ered over in winter wherein were raised the " flowers and fruits and herbs " of more southern climates. 



— '• Xot being accustomed to such severe cold," Nicolo "fell ill, and a little while after returned to 

 Frislanda" (the Faeroe Islands), "where he died." His brother Antonio had been with him in 

 Frislanda "four years," remained there "ten years" longer, returned to Venice, and was dead "in 

 1406" (Marco Barbaro, and Zurla). 



1395 A. D. = " 1320 an. jav." (Raffles x.) inscribed at Majapahit on the tomb of Dara Wati 

 princess of Champa, the date perhaps of her arrival in Java to become the wife of king Angka Wijaya. 



— The site of her tomb proves that she died before the destruction of the city. 



" Feb. 4th " (Nicol. ), assembling at Paris of the First national synod of France. " On the means 

 of ending the schism in the church." 



" The same year" (Blair), Sigismund king of Hungary defeated at Nicopolis by the Turks under 

 Bajazet. 



" In this year" (Klapr. mem. ii. 159), first embassy from the Loo Choo Islands to China. Sent 

 by king Tchoung-chan, who received in return hereditary titles. 



" 1397 A. D. = 30th year of Tai-tsou IV." (Pauth. 399), publication of the Ta-ming-lin, a "gen- 

 eral code of the laws of the Chinese empire under the Ta-ming dynasty." 



" When Pachacutec was very old " (Salcam. edit. Markh. 97), news came to Cuzco "that a ship 

 had been seen on the sea : " — and " after another year, a youth entered the city with a great book, 

 which he gave to the old Inca and then disappeared." 



" 1398 A. D. = 1st year of Kian-wen-ti III., of the Ming" dynasty, "the restorer of the literati" 



— (Chinese chron. table). 



" May 22d" (Nicol.), assembling at Paris of the Second national synod of France. And in a 

 •second session "July," those present resolved to withdraw their obedience from the anti-pope Bene- 

 dictus at Avignon. 



"Dec. 17th" (Elph.), Delhi captured and destroyed by the Mogul Tartars under Timur or 

 Tamerlane, who was now publicly proclaimed emperor of India. — He quitted India "about the loth 

 of March 1399." 



" 1399 A - D -" ( art de verif.), Barkook succeeded by Faradj, twenty-third Memluk sultan of Egypt. 



" The same year" (Desvergers, and Marcel), Egypt threatened by the Tartars under Tamerlane : 

 who proceeded to overrun Syria and Asia Minor, and defeated the Turks ; thus indirectly saving the 

 Greek or Byzantine empire. 



"The same year" (Alst. p. 397), the pope rendering himself sole and absolute master of the city 

 of Rome and changing the form of administration. 



" 1400 A. D." (Garc. de la Vega), Pachacutec succeeded by his son Yupanqui, tenth Inca of Peru. 

 Who commenced the great fortress at Cuzco, after a plan left by his father. 



" In the time of the Incas " (G. de la Veg. ii. 24), herbalists very famous, and among the plants 

 employed by them were probably " chacasoconche " bark (....), " chenchelcoma" {Salvia oppo- 

 sitiftora), " chinapaya " (....), " chucumpa " {Justicia sericea), " huarituru " {Valeriana coarctata), 



