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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Dog丙戌( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster乙酉)

Syria: 1777/78 ( the year in October )

• Secured 2.1 Date of birth
• 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown

• 3.1 First half of
• 3.2 Second half of
• 3.3 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Culture and Religion

• In Strasbourg appears through the printer Johannes Mentelin the first printed Bible in the German language, the so-called Mentelin Bible.
• The German engraver Master ES manufactures the 500th anniversary of the recognition of the " Angels 'Blessing ' the Lady Chapel of Einsiedeln Abbey the miraculous image of Our Lady of Einsiedeln in three variants.

Born

Secured birth

Exact date of birth unknown

• Giovanni Filoteo Achillini, Italian scholar, poet († 1538)
• Balthasar During, German theologian, reformer († 1529)

Died

First half year

• January 31: Arnold Westphal, Bishop of Lübeck (* 1399 )
• April 10: John V, Count of Hoya (c. 1395 )
• APRIL 11: John III. Grumbach, Bishop of Würzburg
• April 11: Guillaume de Varax, Bishop of Belley and Lausanne
• April 13: Burkhard II of Randegg, Bishop of Constance
• June 30th: Peter of Aragon, Portuguese politician and military (* 1429)

Second half- year

• August: Hacı Giray I, founder of the Khanate of Crimea
• September 6: Henri Arnaut de Zwolle, Flemish physician, astronomer, and music theorist (c. 1400)
• SEPTEMBER 25: Ulrich I, Count of Ostfriesland (* 1408 )
• October 30: John Fust, German book printer, publisher and business partner of Gutenberg (c. 1400)
• December 13: Donatello, Italian artist (c. 1386 )

More death unknown

• Walter Back, German Offizial