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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)

Syria: 1787/88 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • March 2: Burgundian Wars: The Swiss Swiss defeat Charles the Bold at the Battle of Grandson.
  • June 22: Battle of Murten: The Swiss Confederates defeat Charles the Bold.
  • July 14: outrage in the wake of " Pauker of Niklashausen ".
  • December 8: Kaiser Friedrich III. associates with Wladyslaw Jagiello of Bohemia and recognizes him as King of Bohemia. The pact is directed against the anti-king Matthias Corvinus and rebellious Austrian nobles.
  • 26th December: The Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza was assassinated in the cathedral of Milan by three nobles.
  • Ivan III. , Ruler of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, sets the pay tribute to the Golden Horde. This leads to a halt at the Ugra in 1480th

Science and Technology

  • November 23: Pope Sixtus IV approved the erection of a university in Mainz.

Culture

Born

  • Philip I, Prince of Grubenhagen († 1551 )
  • Josel of Rosheim ( Joselman Ben Gershon Loans ), representatives and defenders of the Jewish communities in legal and religious affairs of the Holy Roman Empire and Poland († 1554 )

Died

  • July 6th: Regiomontanus ( Johannes Müller), German astronomer and mathematician (* 1436 )
  • JULY 19: Hans Boehm, the timpanist of Niklashausen, German preacher, as heretics burned at the stake (* 1458 )
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