1301: In 1301, Edward of Caernarvon (later Edward II) became the first son of an English monarch to be given the title Prince of Wales. (Big Martin)
1302: The U-1302 was a German WW2 submarine of the type VIIC/41. It was launched on 4 Apr 1944 and sank 3 ships with a total tonnage of 8,386 GRT before being sunk itself on 7 March 1945 in St George´s Channel by depth charges from the Canadian frigates HMCS La Hulloise, HMCS Strathadam and HMCS Thetford Mines. All 48 crew were lost. (ellylles)
1303: Apartment 1303 3D is a 2012 horror film directed by Michael Taverna. The US-Canadian co-production is the English-language remake of the Japanese film of the same name. It is an adaptation of Japanese author Kei Oishi's novel. The film stars Mischa Barton, Rebecca De Mornay and Julianne Michelle. (Strawberry)
1304: On the night of September 13, 2011 in Nevada City, California, a single lightning storm brought 331 strikes to the American River Ranger District, 236 strikes to the Sierraville Ranger District, 217 strikes to the Truckee Ranger District, and 520 strikes to the Yuba River Ranger District, totalling an unprecedented 1,304 downstrikes to the Tahoe National Forest and surrounding areas. (ellylles)
1305: On August 23 1305 William Wallace was executed. (Big Martin)
1306: 1306 = 11 + 32 + 03 + 64. (tommyk)
1307: In August 1933, F. Scott Fitzgerald moved with his family to 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, having been forced out of his previous home in Towson due to a house fire attributed to his mentally ill wife, Zelda. (ellylles)
1308: The German submarine U-1308 was the last Type VII/41 submarine to be laid down, launched and commissioned by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. (Awitt)
1309: Moroccan Red 1309 is a shade of red paint, produced by Benjamin Moore. (tetsabb)
1310: Form 1310 from the US Internal Revenue Service is for claiming a tax refund due to the death of a taxpayer. (Big Martin)
1311: Method 1311 is applied by the US environmental protection agency to determine the toxicity of hazardous waste. (AlmondFacialBar)
1312: 1312 is a special reserved postcode for non-standard use (PO Boxes, competition mail, government departments, large companies etc. in New South Wales, Australia, Eastern suburbs Mail centre. (Awitt)
1313: The Munsters live at 1313, Mockingbird Lane, a fictional suburb in California. (Strawberry)
1314: Exteter College at Oxford has a 1314 Society for those who donate £1,314. The figure apparently derives from the college being founded in 1314. (Big Martin)
1315: The Great Famine struck Europe in 1315. It was the first of several crises in this period. (Awitt)
1316: NGC1316 (also known as Fornax A) is a lenticular galaxy some 60 million light year away. (Big Martin)
1317: Robert, Count of Clermont, was the son of Louis IX of France and Margaret of Provence. He was born in 1256 and died on the 7th of February, 1317. (Strawberry)
1318: 1318 spelled the beginning of the Kildare Supremacy in Ireland. (AlmondFacialBar)
1319: American Airlines flight 1319 leaves Los Angeles daily at 1135 PDT, arriving at Indianapolis 3 hours 40 mins later at 1805 EDT. (tetsabb)
1320: The Dacia 1320 was a car manufactured by Romanian auto marque Dacia. (Strawberry)
1321: In 1321 there was mass scare in France that lepers were poisoning wells. Not only lepers, but Jews and Muslims were attacked during this period of hysteria. (Ian Dunn)
1322: 1322 Backpackers International is a backpackers' hostel in Pretoria, South Africa. (AlmondFacialBar)
1323: 8 US Code 1323 covers the unlawful bringing of aliens into the United States. (Big Martin)
1324: Marco Polo died on the 9th of January, 1324. (Strawberry)
1325: Circular 1325 by the US Geological Survey is a guide to understanding landslides with a view to protecting communities living in at risk areas. (AlmondFacialBar)
1326: 1930 Sunbeam Solo, Reg JO 1326 is a motorbike in the collection at the Black Country Living Museum and is believed to be a genuine Isle of Man TT racer, used by Works rider Charlie Dodson in 1930. (ellylles)
1327: MPT 1327 is an industry standard for trunked radio communications networks. First published in January 1988 by the British Radiocommunications Agency and is primarily used in the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and China. (Strawberry)
1328: The Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton of May 1328 recognised Scotland as an independent country. (Big Martin)
1329: Established in 1933, the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) has been responsible for the collection, publication, analysis and interpretation of sea level data from the global network of tide gauges. PSMSL station 1329 is at KANTON ISLAND-B in the Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati, an island nation in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. (ellylles)
1330: Phoning 1330 anywhere in the Republic of Korea (that being South Korea to the rest of us) will get you an English language tourist information service. (AlmondFacialBar)
1331: 1331 is a bar/restaurant/cinema near the Minster in York. (Big Martin)
1332: §1332 of the Delaware Criminal Code creates the class A misdemeanour of "abusing a corpse". A person is guilty of abusing a corpse when, except as authorized by law, the person treats a corpse in a way that a reasonable person knows would outrage ordinary family sensibilities. (ellylles)
1333: NGC1333 is a region towards the constellation of Perseus that contains stars of less than 1 million years old. (Big Martin)
1334: 1334 is a 2012 video. It is a ghost story and is 17 minutes long. It was directed and written by Nico B, and stars Bill Oberst Jr and Dante White-Aliano. (Strawberry)
1335: The New York Hilton Midtown hotel is at 1335 Avenue of the Americas. (Big Martin)
1336: Item EPH 1336 in the collections of the Imperial War Museum is a First World War period British matchbox holder commemorating the life, achievements and death of Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Herbert Horatio Kitchener, who was drowned when HMS Hampshire was lost off the Orkneys (en route to Russia) on 4/5 June 1916. (ellylles)
1337: 1337 is a synonym of Leetspeak, a system of modified spellings used primarily on the internet by online gamers and computer hackers. (AlmondFacialBar)
1338: GWR steam loco 1338 was originally built for the Cardiff Railway and passed to the GWR at the time of the 1923 "grouping", when the number was allocated. After withdawal from service, it spent many years on the platform of Bleadon & Uphill station (where I often saw it) before going to the Didcot Railwat Centre in 1987. (Big Martin)
1339: 1,339 Quite Interesting Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop is a book by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. (Strawberry)
1340: The year 1340 saw the births of John of Gaunt (in Ghent of course) and Enguerrand de Coucy. The latter is used as the main character in Babara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror - The Calamitous 14th Century. (Big Martin)
1341: MAT1341 is a class in Linear Algebra currently running at the University of Ottawa, Canada. (AlmondFacialBar)
1342: Studio 1342 is a small private photographic studio, in LA. (Awitt)
1343: Geoffrey Chaucer was born around 1343 in London. (bemahan)
1344: USGS Circular 1344 on the estimated use of water in the United States in 2005 put the daily figure at around 410 billion gallons per day. (Big Martin)
1346: Episode 1346 of the Indian soap opera Pavitra Rishta was first broadcast on July 9th, 2014 on Zee TV and deals with a wedding that goes disastrously wrong. (AlmondFacialBar)
1347: The book 1347: Faith in the Face of Death by Ken A Gauthier is set in Italy racked by the Black Death. (Big Martin)
1348: In 1348 an earthquake struck the Friuli region of Italy, at the height of the Black Death. (Ian Dunn)
1349: The band 1349 is a black death metal group from Oslo which takes its name from the year that the Black Death reached Norway. (Big Martin)
1350: In 1350 the supposed Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, who had been invested with the Mark Brandenburg by Emperor Charles IV in 1348, was revealed to be a con man and therefore deposed. He went down in history as False Woldemar. (AlmondFacialBar)
1351: The Treason Act of 1351, although greatly amended since, is one of the earliest English statutes still in force. (Big Martin)
1352: On the 18th of December, 1352, Pope Innocent VI succeeded Pope Clement VI as the 199th pope. (Strawberry)
1353: Four boxes known as the Ledge extend off the Skydeck at the Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower. The enclosures extend out more than four feet from the building's Skydeck and offer visitors a glass-floor view from 1,353ft above the city. (ellylles)
1354: Lego set 1354 makes a dinosaur head attack. (Big Martin)
1355: The Dutch people of Holten have never forgotten the Canadian soldiers killed during the liberation of the Netherlands in the last months of the war. Every Christmas Eve, about 300 school children place lit candles on all the graves to honour the sacrifices of the 1,355 Canadian soldiers who are buried in the large cemetery outside of their town. (ellylles)
1356: I suppose that one can't let 1356 go by without mentioning the battle of Poitiers. (Big Martin)
1357: Employees of the United States Postal Service have to fill in form 1357 to request computer access. (AlmondFacialBar)
1358: The 1-1358C is a watch made by Jacques Leman. (tetsabb)
1359: FM1359-S13 is a fulling mill salmon and sea trout fishing fly. (Big Martin)
1360: In 1979, aged 16, Jadav "Molai" Payeng began planting seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in India's Assam region. Now that once-barren sandbar is a sprawling 1,360 acre forest, home to several thousands of varieties of trees and an astounding diversity of wildlife -- including birds, deer, apes, rhino, elephants and even tigers. Officials in the region only learned of the forest, single-handedly planted and cultivated by Payeng and called the "Molai woods" after its creator's nickname, in 2008. (ellylles)
1361: The GWR 1361 class steam locomotives were 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives, built in 1910 to operate on the tight curves of dockside railway lines. (Big Martin)
1362: On 15th January 1362 the Grote Mandränke (Great Drowning of People), also known as 2nd Flood of Marcellus, swept over Northern Germany, and created the German North Sea coast as we now know it. It drowned the rich trading town of Rungholt, created the island of Sylt and might have been responsible for the Jadebusen and Dollart bays. On the English side it destroyed the port town of Dunwich in Suffolk. According to chronicles of the time about 100,000 people died, which is now thought to be exaggerated. One reason why the flood was so singularly devastating is thought to be the inability of people to keep up the coastal fortifications after the population was decimated by the Black Death. (AlmondFacialBar)
1363: British Standard 1363 gave rise to the iconic British 3-pin electric plug. (Big Martin)
1364: Sesame Street episode 1364 was the first time R2D2 and C3PO visited the street. (AlmondFacialBar)
1365: NGC1365 is a barred spiral galaxy some 200,000 light years across and about 60 million light year away from us. (Big Martin)
1366: Delta airlines flight 1366 goes from Minneapolis to Chicago. (amdby)
1367: Richard ll, son of the Black Prince, was born in 1367. He died in Pontefract, where delicious black sweets are made. (amdby)
1368: 1368 Cerro las Monjas is a spanish wine, so-named as it comes from the highest vineyard in Europe, at 1368 metres. (amdby)
1369: The Urban Dictionary defines a "1369" as a particularly distasteful task to be given, because 13 is unlucky and, er, 69, leaves a bad taste in the mouth. (amdby)
1370: if ever you're in Memphis, pop into Popeye's restaurant, 1370 Union Street. Everything there is fried, but probably not in delicious OLEI Olive Oil, which, coincidentally, is 1370 upside down, and who was, of course, Popeye's girlfriend. (amdby)
1371: Robert Stewart, grandson of Robert the Bruce, became King of Scotland in 1371. He wasn't very effective though, and his son took over; he was buried in the Abbey at Scone. (amdby)
1372: The year 1372 appears to have been the first AD date to appear on coins. These were issued by the city of Aachen. (Big Martin)
1373: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, adopted unanimously on the 28th of September, 2001, is a counter-terrorism measure passed following the 11th of September terrorist attacks on the United States. The resolution was adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter and is therefore binding on all UN member states. (Strawberry)
1374: On June 24th, 1374, the people of Aachen, Germany, reportedly experienced hallucinations and started dancing around to the point of collapse or exhaustion. (Awitt)
1375: Paragraph 1375 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains Christ's presence in the Eucharist. (AlmondFacialBar)
1376: Edward of Woodstock, the so-called Black Prince, did on June 8 1376 leaving his son Richard of Bordeaux as heir to the throne. (Big Martin)
1377: On the 13th of October, 1377, Richard II's first parliament met. (Strawberry)
1378: In July 1378 the Revolt of the Ciompi in Florence led to the first government in Europe that was truly representative of all societal estates. (AlmondFacialBar)
1379: 1379 is a family run sports shop in Austin, Texas, providing 'athletic apparel for adults and children'. (tetsabb)
1380: St Catherine of Siena (the one who claimed to have Christ's foreskin as a "wedding ring") died in 1380. (Big Martin)
1381: The Peasants' Revolt happened in 1381. (Strawberry)
1382: Arzberg Form 1382 is a crockery design line targeted at people shopping for their first household. (AlmondFacialBar)
1383: UN Security Council Resolution 1383 of 6th December 2001 endorsed the Bonn Agreement of the previous day in calling for agreement to recreate a representative government for Afghanistan following the US-led invasion. (Big Martin)
1384: 1384 has the same digits as the 1384th prime (11483). (Ed.)
1385: No. 1385 is a Chicago & North Western 4-6-0 steam locomotive currently undergoing a major restoration. (Big Martin)
1386: Blast 1386AM is the student radio station for Reading College. (AlmondFacialBar)
1387: The will of Robert Corn, made in 1387, is the first will noted in the publication Fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London: A.D. 1387-1439 : with a priest's of 1454. (ellylles)
1388: The worst excesses of the "Merciless Parliament" were committed in 1388. (Big Martin)
1389: Zbigniew Olesnicki was born on the 5th of December, 1389. He was a Polish cardinal, statesman and diplomat. (Strawberry)
1390: MC-DUR 1390 VK is an industrial epoxy resin for mineral surfaces. (AlmondFacialBar)
1391: Camp 1391 is a prison for high-risk inmates in northern Israel. (Big Martin)
1392: In 1392 the Duchy of Bavaria was divided up into three smaller duchies to resolve an inheritance issue. One of those three new ones was called Bayern Munich. (AlmondFacialBar)
1393: At the Bal des Ardents in 1393, a dance of "wild men" ended in disaster, with four being burnt to death or succumbing to their injuries in the following days. The dancers were clothed in linen soaked in resin and covered with flax. Orders were given for there to be no torches, but a guest arrived late with one and managed to set light to the costumes. The king, Charles VI of France, was one of the dancers, but he survived the tragedy as he'd moved to one side to talk to the court ladies and was quickly bundled in a cloak to prevent the flames reaching his costume. Only one other dancer escaped by jumping in a nearby vat of wine. (Big Martin)
1394: Larimer County Control Point FC 1394 is located in southeast Fort Collins at the intersection of Larimer County Road 9 and Colorado State Highway 68. The benchmark is in the northeast corner of the intersection in a small irrigation structure. (ellylles)
1395: 1395 Days Without Red is a film about the siege of Sarajevo. (Big Martin)
1396: At the time of its completion in October 2014, 432 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan was the world's tallest residential building at 1396 feet high. (It's now the third tallest.) (AlmondFacialBar)
1397: United Nations Security Council resolution 1397 was a resolution adopted on 12 March 2002 by the United Nations Security Council. (Awitt)
1398: Studio 1398 is a theatre space on Granville Island, Vancouver. (AlmondFacialBar)
1399: Notice 1399 was a form the IRS published in 2010 informing taxpayers of two minor typos on Form 1099-INT for that year, namely that Box 10 contained an unnecessary dollar sign and Box 10c should not be on the form. (ellylles)
1400: Columba 1400 is an award winning social enterprise and charity based in Scotland. (Big Martin)
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