This Year: 1310--The Sige of Algeciras and The Mob Quad

Hello and Welcome to This Year, a YouTube and Blog series with interesting information about each year between 1300 and 2020.

1310

In 1310,

The forces of Castile lifted the siege of Algeciras against Granada, having been unsuccessful in taking the city. 

The first college quadrangle

 (now known as “The Mob Quad”) 

was completed at Oxford.

This has been This Year: 1310.

Credits:

DWR, "The Mob Quad at Merton College," 26 March 2006
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mob_Quad_from_Chapel_Tower.jpg

Falconaumanni, "Mapa de Algeciras donde se indican los principales yacimientos de época romana," December 2008.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arqueologico_medieval.jpg

Murphy, Tom VII "The Mob Quad at Merton College, Oxford, UK," 25 August 2005
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mob_Quad.jpg

Notre Dame Cathedral interior 

https://mywowo.net/en/france/paris/notre-dame/interior

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant "Universi qui te expectant," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg.

Simon Q, "Merton College, Oxford,"
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merton_College,_Oxford_(3915212517).jpg