Events Tagged: "terminology"

Cnut replaces ealdormen with earls - Danish term 'jarl' becomes 'earl', fewer but more powerful than old ealdormen, govern multiple shires

Domesday records land measurements - southern England uses hides, Danelaw uses carucates (ploughlands), both equal ~120 acres

James Joseph Sylvester coins the term 'graph' in the context of molecular diagrams