1 December 1473
An extract from George Boustronios’ chronicle:
In addition on 1 December 1473, the queen sent word to Morabit to be present at her court. He, moreover, went there, entered the palace and greeted her...
1 December 1474
From George Boustronios’s chronicle:
And on Saturday on 1 January 1474 in the year of Christ news arrived from Famagusta that: ‘the archbishop, Sir James and Rizzo have boarded a foreign galley belonging to King...
1 December 1838
The American missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease recorded in his diary the new order by the Sultan to celebrate his birthday like the European birthdays:
I am informed that there was some intoxication...
1 December 1838
If you walk in the shed behind St Lazarus church in Larnaca, you will see the tombstone of the twin children of the American missionary Lorenzo Warriner Pease. One of the twins, his little girl, died on 2 December:
2 December 1878
Sir Garnet Wolseley, worried about his wife’s fragile health, put in a letter his thoughts to dear Louise:
I trust that we may not be separated again for some time to come, and that our mountain sanatorium may prove a a great success: otherwise...
3 December 1738
Richard Pococke travelled in the southern part of the island:
We went on to the other side of Cape Bianco and came to two delightful villages which are contiguous. They are called Episcopi and Colosse. These villages are finely watered and...
3 December 1957
Edith Belcher, wife of US Consul General Taylor Belcher, described the swearing in ceremony of Sir Hugh Foot at Government House:
Home for quick lunch and change. Ryan not here yet. Lolos drove us up, flags flying. Much security...
4 December 1373
Queen Eleanor of Aragon realised that the Genoese did not come to help her but to occupy Cyprus. Leto Severis continues the story:
When she arrived in Nicosia on the 4th December 1373, she found it ungoverned and in total anarchy. ...
4 December 1932
Special day for Rupert Gunnis, ADC to Sir Ronald Storrs, as he was present in the swearing in of the new Governor Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs:
Took E and Lady MH down to Larnaca and saw them off. ...
5 December 1394
Nicolai de Marthono, a notary of Carinola, noted in his travel book:
Wherefore on the fifth day of December of the third indiction I went to that ancient city Constantia four miles distant from Famagosta, which was once a great city built by the Emperor...
6 December 1373
Leontios Macheras, Cypriot chronicler attached to the court of the Lusignans, reported a fight between the men of Lefkosia and the Genoese:
And on Tuesday the sixth of December 1373 after Christ the Genoese...
7 December 1881
The Cyprus Herald recorded:
Information was received in Limassol yesterday evening to the effect that Lieutenant Kitchener, R.E., Director of Survey, had been shot at near the villageof Pissouri: it appears that seeing a man...