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Venetian traveller Christoforo Fioravanti was shipwrecked on the Norwegian coast in 1432 and was taken in by local fisher folk. What remarkable observations did he make about the morality of these people?
325 – The inaugural Council of Nicaea is opened, commencing the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. 1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought at Vialonga, near Lisbon, establishing the House of Braganza as the principal royal family of Portugal. 1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the…
