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Heads of State
Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅( at the beginning of the year fire - buffalo丁丑)
Syria: 1769/70 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- JANUARY 24: Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
- FEBRUARY 27: George of Podiebrad is elected King of Bohemia, where the stalls ignore other claims throne.
When Alfonso V of Aragon, who as Alfonso I also holds the throne of Naples, at the height of the clashes with Pope Calixtus III. Whose promoters it was originally, died on June 27, Callistus denied his son Ferdinand the crown and picks up the feud. Kalixts nephew Pedro Luis is invested with the vicariates of Terracina and Benevento, which previously held the late king, in addition he is charged with the conduct of the troops in the inevitable war against the Aragonese. Ferdinand occupied in response, the Kingdom of Naples. He is a few months later, in charge after the death of the pope, by his successor with the fief.
Religion
On August 6, dies Pope Calixtus III. in Rome. At the conclave of August 14 to August 19 the choice to Enea Silvio de ' Piccolomini, Pope Pius II called falls. The enthronement ceremony takes place on 3 September.
Born
- May 02: Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Portugal ( as the spouse, not as regent in its own right ) ( † 1525)
- JULY 28: Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet († 1530)
- 05 October: Casimir of Poland, Polish and Lithuanian national saint († 1484 )
Died
- March 25: Iñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana, Spanish humanist (* August 19, 1398 )
- MAY 21: Petr Aksamit z Lidéřovic a Kosova, Czech country nobleman and military leader (c. 1400)
- May 29: Hermann von Sachsen Home, German poet (c. 1363)
- 27 June: Alfonso V, the Magnanimous, King of Aragon, Naples and Sicily ( * 1396 )
- August 06: Calixtus III, Pope since 1455 (* 1378 ).
- August 18: William IV of In Lach Lach -Ange, German Imperial Knight
- Lazar Brankovic, despot of Serbia (ruler ) 1456-1458