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Heads of State

Year of the Wood Buffalo乙丑( at the beginning of the year wood rat甲子)

Syria: 1696/97 ( the year in October )

• 2.1 Exact date of birth unknown
• 2.2 Born around 1385

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• APRIL 6: Cortes of Coimbra choose Johann I, King of Portugal. He is the first ruler of the house of Avis. The dynasty of Burgundy is finished.
• April 12: In the double wedding of Cambrai marries John the Fearless Margaret of Straubing- Holland and his sister Margaret, whose brother William II Among the more than 20,000 invited guests is also the French King Charles VI.
• August 14: The Portuguese under King John I defeat the Castilians in the battle of Aljubarrota and to secure its independence.
• December 31: Charles Small is when Charles II, King of Hungary.

Religion

• March 24: The Church of St. Martha in Nuremberg is consecrated.

• The Czech King Wenceslas IV gives the order for a translation of the Bible, called the Wenzel Bible.
• Manfredo Chiaramonte endows the monastery Baida.
• The Mosteiro da Batalha is founded.
• The Tibetan Welkhyung Monastery is founded.

Born

Exact date of birth unknown

• Walter Bower, Scottish historian († 1449 )

Born around 1385

• Nicholas of Pelgrims, Czech bishop, chronicler and diplomat († 1460 )
• Conrad Heyden, town clerk, author of Klagspiegels († 1444 )

Died

• JUNE 28: Andronikos IV, Byzantine Emperor from 1376 to 1379 (* 1348 )
• August 7: Joan of Kent, wife of the Black Prince (* 1328 )