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Year of the Fire Rat丙子( at the beginning of the year Wood Pig乙亥)

Syria: 1827/28 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Switzerland / France

French - Habsburg contrast

  • January 23: After the death of Ferdinand II, his son Charles I. is King of Spain. Thus, the centuries- unlike France, the " surrounded " by the Habsburgs sees itself begins.
  • 13 August: Charles I of Spain, Duke of Burgundy and Francis I of France close the Treaty of Noyon against the will of the Emperor Maximilian I. He assures Charles position in Burgundy domestic and foreign policy and allows the acquisition of the rule in Spain. For Maximilian he means to evacuate in Italy forced to his last positions.

More Events in Europe

Africa

  • August 24: The Battle of Marj Dabiq between the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Selim I, the stern, and the Mamluks under the Burdschiyya dynasty ends with the victory of the Ottomans and the death of the Mamluk Sultan al - Ghuri.
  • David II, Negus Nagast of Ethiopia, the Sultanate of Adal defeated in a war of conquest. There it comes to power struggles at the court of the Sultan, which resulted in Prince Mahfuz of Zeila seizes power.

Economy

Duke Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X of Bavaria, adopted on April 23 in Ingolstadt, a new Bavarian order. Because in it, among other things, the price and the ingredients of beer are regulated, a passage of the provincial system was later referred to as the "Bavarian Purity Law ".

  • At Augsburg started at the request of the merchant and banker Jacob Fugger the construction of the Fuggerei, the oldest still existing today social settlement in the world. The construction will last until 1521.

Science and Technology

  • December: Thomas More's Utopia state theoretical work will be published at the instigation of Erasmus in Leuven in Latin for the first time.

Culture

Fine Arts

  • Lucas Cranach the Elder paints the picture cycle The 10 Commandments.
  • Titian starts working at Assumption.
April 2014 List of centuries 14th century 18th century 1470s 1500s (decade) 1510s 1550s 1506 1511 1526 1516 in art History of Spain History of Switzerland Armenian calendar Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Dai people Iranian calendars Coptic calendar Malayalam calendar September 14 November 29 Battle of Marignano December 15 August 13 Medieval Croatia August 9 Ivangorod Selim I. Algiers Adal Sultanate William IV, Duke of Bavaria Louis X, Duke of Bavaria Subsidized housing Utopia (book) Orlando Furioso June 8 Pope Leo X December 19 Concordat of Bologna Annates Cipriano de Rore 1565 1558 Conrad Gessner Georg Fabricius 1571 June 29 1585 1580 July 27 Emilie of Saxony 1591 August 10 1590 Hieronymus Wolf September 8 1584 1577 October 14 1568 Charles I, Count of Hohenzollern 1576 1452 1470 1456 July 30 Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz 1455 1450 1430 December 13 1462 1454 Giuliano da Sangallo 1445
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