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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



1432 A. D. (see T. Wright), near Damascus, Brocquiere fell in with a " Moor wlio had ridden a 

 camel from Cairo in eight clays," bringing an order for the arrest of all Catalonians and Genoese in 

 Damascus and throughout Syria ; a ship having been captured by the prince of Tarentum. At the 

 close of the year, returning through Asia Minor, — Brocquiere found the Byzantine dominions con- 

 fined to Constantinople, a castle three leagues North, and a small city in Greece called Salubria ; the 

 emperor paying tribute to the Turks, and under obligations to return fugitive slaves. While the 

 Turkish sultan drew from Greece " thirty thousand men " annually ; being " two fifths," or according 

 to other estimates " three fourths " of his whole army. 



" 1433 A. D." (Brocq , and T. Wright), through a stratagem, Albania regained by Scanderbeg. 

 — Who for several years maintained himself, defeating the Turkish armies sent against him. 

 " August " (Galvan.), John succeeded by his son Duarte or Edward, now king of Portugal. 

 " 1434 A. D." (Blair), Cosmo de Medici duke of Florence, recalled from banishment. The 

 beginning of the rise of the Medici family. 



One hundred and seventy-second generation. May 1st, 1434, onward mostly beyond youth : the 

 Greek writers, Michael Ducas nepos d. 1462, Gemistus d. about 1441, Georgius Codinus, Gennadius 

 Georgius Scholarius d. 1459 : Ouintus Aemilianus, Flavius Blondus, Johannes Aventinus, Laurentius 

 Valla, Laurentius Justinianus patriarcha Yenetum, Leonard Aretin ; Poggio ; Antonio Cermisone, 

 Bernhardus Senensis, Alphonsus Tonstatus, Antoninus Florentinus ; Anton. Guainerius (Spreng.) : 

 the scholastic theologians, Joannes de Capistrano, Joannes Bassolius, Joannes de Turrecremata, and 

 Nicolaus de Cusa : the botanist, Ortolfus de Bavaria Heydenberger : the painters, Fra. Giovanni 

 called Angelico d. 1445, Masaccio d. 1443. 



" The same year " (Galvan., Churchill coll., and Major pr. H. 69), under instructions from prince 

 Henry of Portugal to disregard the statements of seamen who " have no knowledge of the needle or 

 the sailing chart," Gil Eannes doubled Cape Bojador ; and landing beyond, found no signs of inhab- 

 itants, but brought back "some plants that he had gathered, which were such as were called in Por- 

 tugal St. Mary's roses" {Rosmarinus officinalis). 



"1435 A. D." (Galvan., and Major pr. H. 69), Gil Eannes again sent out "in his barque," 

 together with Affonso Gonsalves Baldaya in a " varinel, or vessel with oars : " fifty leagues beyond 

 Cape Bojador, they entered a bay which they called " Angra do Ruivos" bay of gurnards, from the 

 numbers of those fish ; and on landing, found " traces of men and camels." — On reporting to prince 

 Henry, Baldaya was sent back, taking two horses in his varinel, and "a hundred and twenty leagues " 

 beyond Cape Bojador entered an estuary (afterwards called "Rio d'Ouro"): two lads "of about 

 seventeen " were sent along the shore on the horses, and after " seven leagues " came " upon a group 

 of nineteen men " armed only with azagays, who retired to a heap of stones, and " fought till evening 

 warned the " lads to return to the vessel ; in the morning, Baldaya visited the spot, but the natives 

 " had decamped, leaving the greater portion of their poor property behind : " seals were seen to the 

 number of some "five thousand," and the vessel was loaded with their skins. Continuing " fifty 

 leagues " farther to a rocky galley-like headland, Baldaya was unable to capture a native, but procured 

 some fishing-nets " made of the bark of a tree of such a texture " that " it could be woven excellently 

 well" (Adansonia). 



In or about 1435 A. D. (= " 1360 an. jav.," Raffles x), arrival at Majapahit of ambassadors from 

 Panjar Masin. In return, the king of Java sent one of his sons Chakra Nagara to be chief, accom- 

 panied by many vessels carrying followers and troops. Besides Burni (Borneo), other conquests 

 by the Javan admiral Ratu Peng'ging are enumerated, as Makasar, Goa, Banda, Sembawa, Ende", 

 Timor, Ternate', Sulu, Siram (Ceram), and Manila. He was now sent to subdue Palembano-. 



In the Avadana Purana mention is made of the city of Surparaka (" Sippara" of Ptolemy or Sipeler 

 on one of the mouths of the Krichna) precious stones of the Deccan (Golconda), silks, Budhist assem- 

 blies, diligence in reading, and Kasyapu is named as having lived in old times. 



Santalum . . . sp. of the Malayan archipelago. The " Gosircha tchandana," the grove held 

 in the name of king Tchakravartin and reached by a sea-voyage, — is regarded by Burnouf as possibly 

 from Sandalwood Island : santal of " Mekasiry " (Macassar) is mentioned by Abul Fazl (Gladw. 

 ayeen akbery i. 92, and Burnouf introd. 255 to 619). 



"In the years siouan-tc and king-thai (= 1426 to 1435," Remus, iii. 97), ambassadors sent to 

 China from Cambodia, — but afterwards they did not come regularly. 



1436 A. D., the Javan admiral having subdued Palembang in Sumatra, Aria Damar son of king 

 Angka Wijaya sent there as chief as early possibly as this date. He was accompanied by the Chi" 

 nese princess ; — and here in Palembang, her two sons Raden Patah and his half-brother Raden 

 Husen were born. 



"The same year = ' tching-toung,' 1st year of Yng-tsoung-joui-ti " or Yng-tsoung III., "of the 

 Ming" or Twenty- third dynasty (Chinese chron. table, and Pauth.). 



"Apr. 13th, Friday" (Blair), Paris re-captured by the French from English possession. 



