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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Pig辛亥( at the beginning of the year metal dog庚戌)

Syria: 1862/63 ( year October )

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

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• October 5: The Prince schmalkaldischen close in Friedewald the Treaty of Torgau with France, which aims at the liberation of the Landgrave Philip of Hesse from Imperial custody.
• November 5: The siege of the city of Magdeburg, who has opposed the Augsburg Interim, ends after more than a year with a peace treaty. The Old Town was destroyed during the siege.

• At the Diet of Augsburg to the Emperor Charles V., the question of his successor not settle in his spirit. Tensions in religious affairs lead in the kingdom to Prince uprising.
• Göhrenz mill and horn are first mentioned.
• The municipality of Heerenveen is founded.

Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean

• Tripoli belongs to conquest by Dragut Pasha to the Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman pirates under Sinan Pasha and Turgut Reis raided from their base in Djerba from the Maltese island of Gozo and almost lead the entire population into slavery. The capital of Victoria remains uninhabited for years to come.

Asia

• The Burmese king Bayinnaung conquered Prome, setting a first step towards the revival of the Kingdom of Taungoo.

Economy

• At the Diet of Augsburg, a coinage decree is issued. In addition, for the first time since 1505 a Common penny will be charged again.

Science and Technology

Natural sciences

Erasmus Reinhold created the Prutenicae Tabulae Coelestium Motuum, astronomical tables for calculating the locations of the sun, moon and the planets. The Prutenischen panels will replace the Alfonsine Tables previously used increasingly diverged their predicted data from reality. The first part of Conrad Gesner's four-volume Historia animalium, Quadrupedes vivipares appears. Until 1558 he describes in the book on 4500 pages all known around 1550 plant and animal species.

Universities

• Survey of the Collegium Litterarum in Dillingen to the University of Dillingen ( dissolved 1803)
• The university was founded in 1505 in Seville is levied by the city council to the university.

Society

• The Württemberg Duchess Maria Anna of Brandenburg- Ansbach, the Court Pharmacy in Stuttgart founded as a foundation for the poor, sick and needy in the city. It is in its early days in rooms of the Old Castle.

Religion

• In the moral code Stoglaw questions of the Russian Tsar Ivan IV to the same church council and its replies are laid down.
• The Bible gets in Geneva for the first time by the Parisian printer Robert Estienne their detailed division into verses.
• Johannes Brenz written on behalf of the Duke Christoph of Württemberg, the Lutheran Confession Virtembergica.

Disasters

• In England once again breaks out of the English sweat. Due to the unclear sources but it could also be a plague epidemic.

Born

Secured birth

• MARCH 21: Maria Anna of Bavaria, Archduchess of Inner Austria - Styria († 1608)
• March 30: Salomon Schweigger, German Protestant preacher, Orient traveler and Koran translators († 1622)

• AUGUST 28: Václav Budovec Budova, Czech politician, diplomat and writer († 1621)
• AUGUST 31: Lothar von Metternich, Elector and Archbishop of Trier ( † 1623)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Friedrich von Ahlefeldt, Owner of the Manor at Seestermühe, Seegaad, Kasseedorf and Arlewatt, Amtsrat of Aabenraa and District Administrator of Holstein ( † 1605 )
• Adrien d' Amboise, French chaplain and Bishop of Tréguier († 1616)
• Abu 'l- Fazl ibn Mubarak, Indian chronicler and historiographer († 1602)
• Charlotte de Beaune- Semblançay, comtesse de Sauve, French noblewoman, mistress of the French King Henry IV († 1617)
• Zbynko Berka of Dube and Lipa, Czech Cardinal and Archbishop of Prague ( † 1606 )
• Paul Jenischhaus, German educator and Lutheran theologian († 1612 )
• Agnes von Mansfeld- Eisleben, the beautiful Mansfelderin, Countess of Mansfeld and wife of former Archbishop of Cologne, Gebhard I von Waldburg († 1637 )
• Fausto Veranzio, Venetian diplomat, chaplain, polymath and inventor († 1617)
• Johannes Winckelmann, German Lutheran theologian († 1626 )

Died

• January 30: Andrea Cornaro, Italian cardinal, bishop of Brescia ( * 1511)
• February 4: John IV, Prince of Anhalt -Zerbst (* 1504)

• March 01: Martin Bucer, German theologian of the Reformation (* 1491 )
• March 03: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, English politician (* 1501)
• March 09: Andreas Kritzmann, GunMaster and well-known folk hero in Magdeburg (c. 1500? )
• March 22: Ulrich X., Regent of the counties Regenstein and Blankenburg ( * 1499 )

• April 06: Joachim von Watt ( Vadian ), Swiss humanist and reformer (* 1484 )
• April 22: Christoph I, Count of Ortenbourg (* 1480)

• 08 May: Barbara Radziwill, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (* 1520)
• MAY 17: Shin Saimdang, Korean painter, poet and philosopher (* 1504)
• MAY 18: Domenico Beccafumi, Italian painter (* 1486 )
• 28 May: Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian, composer and playwright (* 1500)

• 24 June: Charles II de Croy, French nobleman (* 1522)

• September 04: Philip I, Duke of Brunswick- Grubenhagen (* 1476 )

• Sahib I. Giray, Khan of Kazan and Khan of Crimea (* 1501)