Articles about daily life across every continent and era, oldest first.
Ibn Battuta met Muhammad bin Tughluq on June 8, 1334, and served as qadi at 12,000 dinars a year. In 1342 he left for China and was wrecked at Calicut.
· 1334In three letters of 1526, Afonso I of Kongo asked João III of Portugal for priests, physicians and an end to the slave trade. The originals are in Lisbon.
· 1526Henry VIII's Mary Rose sank in the Solent on July 19, 1545. Two museums disagree on why and on the death toll; she was raised on October 11, 1982.
· 1545Anthony Jenkinson reached Bukhara on December 23, 1558, for the Muscovy Company, found no trade "worthy the following," and returned to Moscow in 1559.
· 1558Potosí silver, found in 1545 and refined with mercury by forced mita labor, sailed to Seville and, on Manila galleons, to China, the era's silver sink.
· 1572Finished at Tlatelolco in 1577 by Sahagún and Nahua scholars, ordered to Spain by Philip II, in Medici hands by 1587, in Florence from 1783, online 2023.
· 1577Arakel of Tabriz dated the Julfa deportation to October 21 to November 19, 1604. Its merchants rebuilt across from Isfahan in 1605; a press came in 1636.
· 1605A fire started outside Istanbul's Cibali gate on September 2, 1633, and burned a fifth of the city. The same day, Murad IV ordered the coffeehouses shut.
· 1633An orphan sale at Alkmaar on February 5, 1637, raised about 90,000 guilders for tulip bulbs. Krelage, Garber, Goldgar and Thompson trace what happened before and after.
· 1637Hamel's 1668 Journael counts 36 survivors of the Sperwer's 64; the Jeju magistrate's 1653 report in the Sillok counts 38. Thirteen years; eight escaped.
· 1653A 1692 Salem warrant named Sarah Good on suspicion of witchcraft. Massachusetts cleared its last conviction from that court in 2022.
· 1692Mount Fuji erupted from a new southeast vent on December 16, 1707, for 16 days. Ash buried Subashiri and fell on Edo; a levy and floods followed.
· 1707Qianlong's monument, translated by Amiot in 1776, records the Torghuts' eight-month march from the Volga to the Ili in 1771; counts of the dead disagree.
· 1771Lancashire machines from 1764, the Cromford mill of 1771, high wages and cheap coal explain why cotton factories appeared first in the English Midlands and North.
· 1771Bligh's own account of the dawn of April 28, 1789, the 3618-mile boat voyage to Timor, and the Portsmouth court-martial of 1792 that hanged three men.
· 1789Jefferson's orders of June 20, 1803, and the journals' dated lines from Camp Dubois, May 14, 1804, to Ordway's "finis" at St. Louis, September 23, 1806.
· 1804Hannah Dawes Newcomb kept a parlor fire in Keene from May 1816. Tambora is the accepted cause; a 2016 paper testing the link was withdrawn.
· 1816Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park on May 1, 1851. The Royal Commission put its glass hall at 1,851 feet; its catalogue, 1,848.
· 1851India's first passenger train left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm on April 16, 1853. Behind it stood a 5 per cent guarantee of 1849 and a pass finished in 1868.
· 1853A 30-shilling license, a charter adopted on Bakery Hill on November 11, 1854, a stockade stormed on December 3 and 13 treason trials that convicted no one.
· 1854Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote that Black Americans were not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Six justices concurred; two dissented.
· 1857MPs asked in June 1858 how to protect Parliament from the Thames; on July 15 Disraeli called the river a Stygian pool and named a 3,000,000 pound plan.
· 1858Ármin Vámbéry left Tehran in March 1863 as the dervish Reshid Efendi, saw the khan of Khiva and the emir at Samarkand, and was back on January 20, 1864.
· 1863Lincoln's proclamation freed the enslaved in ten rebel states, exempted 13 Louisiana parishes and 55 Virginia counties, and skipped the border states.
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