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Year of the Earth- pig己亥(at the beginning of earth - dog戊戌)
Syria: 1790/91 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Eastern and Southeastern Europe
The Republic of Venice under the Doge Giovanni Mocenigo newly elected in the previous year closes on 24 January peace with the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II and must renounce the Argolis, Negroponte, Scutari and Lemnos, and every year 10,000 gold ducats to pay tribute beyond.
At the beginning of the reign of Matthias Corvinus win the Hungarian leaders, Pál István Báthory Kinizsi and on 13 October a significant victory over the Turks in the Battle of Brodfeld. The Ottomans under Ali Koja be defeated.
With the Peace of Olomouc put Matthias Corvinus and Vladislav of Poland 's ten years of Czech- Hungarian conflict with. Corvinus waived any further claims in Bohemia, but retains the Bohemian side countries Moravia, Silesia, Upper and Lower Lusatia and the title as King of Bohemia. The Bohemian claims to power of the one who should die first, will fall on the other. With this provision, the constitutional unit of the Bohemian crown is preserved, even if there are currently two kings.
Western and South-Western Europe
Maximilian I. defeated on August 17, with his army, the French, under Philippe de Crèvecœur at the Battle of Guinegate. King Louis XI. wanted his kingdom incorporate other Burgundian possessions.
Signed in Castilian Toledo on September 4 Treaty of Alcaçovas ends the Castilian Succession war between Castile and Portugal. The Portuguese King Alfonso V renounces all claim to the Castilian throne, but the Portuguese sovereignty over all lands and waters south of Cape Bojador is reaffirmed. Only the Canary Islands will be awarded Castile.
- Union of the Crowns of Aragon and Castile
Ersturkundliche mentions
Furna is first mentioned.
Science and Technology
- First mention of the Schwabacher Latin School
Born
- November 6: Philip I, Margrave of Baden († 1533)
- November 6: Joanna of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings of Spain († 1555)