Original: December 24 & ndash ; Pope Boniface VIII succeeds Pope Celestine V as the 193rd pope after Celestine V abdicates the papacy on December 13 , only 5 months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5 , wishing to return to his life as an ascetic hermit .
Simplified: England and Portugal enter into the first iteration of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance , the oldest alliance in the world still in force .