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

Syria: 1407/ 08 ( the year in October )

• 2.1 day unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Crusades

• Persecution of Jews in Germany, in particular the Gezerot - Tatnu massacre in the Rhineland in the framework of the People's Crusade (see German Crusade of 1096 ).
• Crusaders set off against the Muslim Turks for the first Holy Crusade.
• September 29: The German and Italian contingent of the People's Crusade is destroyed or enslaved in Xerigordon of Rum - Seljuks.
• October 21: Rum - Seljuks destroy the remaining people crusade against Nicaea.

Ups and Ersturkundliche mentions

• Founding of the Benedictine monastery of St. George.
• First mention of apple Bach ( Bad Mergentheim ), Estorf (Weser), Gentingen, Isny, herb home and Vicosoprano.

Born

Day unknown

• Al -Amir, Caliph of the Fatimids († 1130)
• Al- Muqtafi, Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad ( † 1160 )
• Izjaslav II, Prince of Volhynia, later Grand Duke of Kievan Rus, († 1154 )
• Hugo of St. Victor German, French monk Ethnicity, mystic and scholastic
• Minamoto no Tameyoshi, head of the Minamoto (Japan), leader of the rebellion against the Taira Hōgen († 1156 )

Died

• April 01: Engelbert I, Margrave of Istria, Count of Spanheim and Kraichgau, governor of Salzburg
• April 06: William Fitz Osbert, English rebellion leader

• Anastasia, Queen of Hungary (* 1021)
• Vitale Falier, 32nd Doge of Venice
• Gottfried II, Lord of Joinville
• Henry III. , Count of Luxembourg (* 1070)
• Walter Sans - Avoir, a leader of the People's Crusade
• Makrembolitissa Eudocia, Byzantine empress (* 1021)