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Data for 1274

A version of the Yellow badge. The 1274 edict in England required Jews to wear a yellow badge shaped like the Ten Commandments.

In the year 1274, nine-year-old Dante Alighieri first sees the 8-year-old Beatrice, his lifelong muse, in Florence (May 1), Pope Gregory X convenes the Second Council of Lyon where a settlement between the Catholic and the Orthodox Church is agreed over several key issues (May 7), prince Edward returns from the Ninth Crusade, to be crowned king EdWard I of England (Aug 2), and one of his first acts is to require all Jews to wear yellow badges (Aug 22), Kublai Khan attempts to invade Japan (Nov 4), but much of the fleet is dashed on the rocks and destroyed by a great typhoon that the Japanese call kamikaze (Nov 19) - and all these fine people were born:

1274-xxxx Rizzardo IV da Camino* Italian nobleman/military leader/lord of Treviso - (1312/c. 38)
1274-xxxx Marina Faliero* the 55th Doge of Venice - Venice, Venetian Republic (1355/81)
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1274-xxxx Sancho of Majorca* called_ the Pacific/the Peaceful_/King of Majorca - Pina, Mallorca (1324/c. 50)

1274-0209 Louis of Toulouse* Neapolitan prince/Catholic bishop - Brignoles, Kingdom of France (1297/23)

1274-0401 Robert Clifford* nobleman/ soldier - Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England (1314/40)

1274-0711 Robert the Bruce* King of Scots – Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland (1329/54)
1274-0725 John Beauchamp* nobleman - Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, England (1336/62)

1274-1004 Rudolf I* Duke of Bavaria - Basel, Prince-Bishopric of Basel, Holy Roman Empire (1319/44)
1274-1005 Al-Dhahabi* theologian/ Islamic historian/Hadith scholar - Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate (1348/73)
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1274-1125 Catherine I* Latin Empress of Constantinople - Constantinople, Latin Empire (1307/32)

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