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Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

1841.

No.

Reign.

Chronology of the Chinese.

25. THE SOUTHERN SUNG DYNASTY.

A. D.

Year of Cycle.

|

136.1127 62: 44

1163 63: 20

1190 63:47

1195

Cotemporary Events.

155

Accession of Stephen to the English crown, 1135.

The Teutonic order begins, 1164; the conquest of Egypt by the Turks, 1169.

Third crusade and seige of Acre, 1188; John succeeds to the English throne, 1199. Genghis khan's reign and conquests. The Magna Charta, 1215. Origin of the 64: 22 Ottomans, 1240.

63:52

2 27

3 5

4 30

5 40

1225

6 10

1

1276

65: 12

Edward I. on the English throne, 1272.

8

2

1276

65: 13

9

2

1265 65:02 The uncle and father of Marco Polo the Venetian traveler in China.

Reign.

1278 65: 15

1295

The famous Mortmain act passes in England, 1279.

26. THE YUEN DYNASTY.

Year of Cycle.

Cotemporary Events.

65: 17 During the Sicilian vespers, 8000 French murdered, 1283. Wales annexed to Eng- 65: 32 gland, 1283. Regular succession of En-

glish parliament begins, 1293.

130865:45

No.

A. D.

115

1280

2 13

3

4

4

9

5

3

6

5

7

1

8

3

1330 66:07

1312 65:49 The mariner's compass said to be invent-

jed or improved by Flaveo, 1302.

132165:58

132466:01 The Swiss cantons begin 1307. Edward

II. succeeds to the English crown. 1329 66:06 Edward III. on the English throne,

1327. !

The first comet observed, whose course is 9 35 1333 66: 10 described with exactness, in June, 1337.

family, his embassy to the pope, his predilection to Christianity,- are narrated in the travels of Marco Polo,-an historian of no mean

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