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Year of the Wood Monkey甲申( at the beginning of the year, water - sheep癸未)
Syria: 1655/56 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
Ersturkundliche mentions
- Elm, Honau, Rongellen, Teuffenthal, Crispenhofen and Rosenberg (Württemberg ) are first mentioned.
Asia
- Parakramabahu V becomes king of Sri Lanka.
Economy
- The Hanseatic League was founded as a league of cities.
Religion
- JULY 22: Clement VI. issued in a Breve Agnes of Hungary 's permission to participate in the life of the Poor Clares, without being obliged to retreat.
- August 22: Pope Clement VI. granted the Queen Agnes of Hungary, the privilege of the monastery Königsfelden as often as they wanted to visit and build a house to the monastery.
- Prague is an archbishopric.
- The monastery church of the Cistercian in Chorin is completed ( under construction since 1277 ).
Disasters
- Italy experienced a severe famine.
Born
- Meinhard III. , Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count of Gorizia and Tyrol ( † 1363)
Died
- November 03: Adolf von der Mark, Prince-Bishop of Liège ( born August 1288)
- Simone Martini, Italian painter of the Sienese school (c. 1284)
- Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia (* 1314)