1422/09/05
Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.] [more]
Trials are held on the bastion of St Daniel with 21 copper bombards, of which five explode.
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1874 BOUTELL Arms & Arm. 219 Towards the end of the 14th century pieces called bombardes were in existence, which threw balls of stone weighing as much as 200 lbs… These heavy bombards proved to be of very little practical use.