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Heads of State

Year of the Water Dragon壬辰( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit辛卯)

Syria: 1783/84 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Discoveries

Other events around the world

  • Ivan III. from Russia marries Princess Sophia of Constantinople Opel.
  • Armenia is occupied by Persia.

Economy

  • November 25: The Solingen sword smiths get a guild privilege: This is the basis for the later world-famous Solingen weapons.
  • In Siena the subsequent bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena was founded as Monte di Pietà Leihaus.
  • In the Electorate of Saxony, the iron chamber Pirna is founded.

Science and Technology

  • Ludwig the Wealthy of Lower Bavaria founded in Ingolstadt with papal approval, the so-called privilege, the University of Ingolstadt, later Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, as first Bavarian university. It is furnished with four schools in the so-called Pfründnerhaus.

Culture

  • The Schwabacher font is probably first used by John Baumler in an Augsburg weighing pressure.

Society

Born

  • April 5: Bianca Maria Sforza, Archduchess of Austria and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire († 1511)
  • MAY 31: Erard de la Marck, prince-bishop of Liège and Archbishop of Valencia († 1538)
  • Heinrich Bebel, German humanist († 1518)
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and graphic artist († 1553)

Died

  • March 30:. Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (* 1435 )
  • APRIL 25: Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect and humanist (* 1404)
  • June 4: Nezahualcóyotl, ruler in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (* 1402)
  • August: Gregor Heimburg, German humanist and statesman
  • NOVEMBER 8: John II of Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman from the House of Rosenberg, the chief captain, in Silesia and Bohemia highest chamberlain (* 1434 )
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