Mathew Lyons

The dissolution of the monasteries as a series of decisions and indecisions.

The botanist Jules Émile Planchon, who led efforts to find a remedy for phylloxera, died on 1 April 1888.

Evliya Çelebi was born on 25 March 1611.

Pope Clement V suppressed the order on 22 March 1312.

The parliament of Kilkenny, which passed the eponymous Statute, opened on 18 February 1366.

José Guadalupe Posada, who produced over 20,000 engravings during his career, was born on 2 February 1852.

Camillo Agrippa, author of Trattato di scientia d’arme, died on 1 January 1600.

The first edition of 6,000 copies was published on 19 December 1843.

Anne Greene survived her execution on 14 December 1650.

Sentenced on charges of corruption on 27 January 1302, Dante Alighieri never saw the city again.