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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Pig丁亥( at the beginning of the year Fire Dog丙戌)

Syria: 1658/59 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Italy

  • May 20: Cola di Rienzo markets with the help of the people hated the nobility in Rome and calls the republic according to ancient Roman model.

Hundred Years' War

  • August 4: Six Burghers of Calais surrender after the siege of the city called in a humiliating manner before King Edward III. The Queen gives the six hostages to freedom.
  • Edward III. conquered Calais. British troops drive out the locals and set up their own people to.

Holy Roman Empire

  • After the death of Louis of Bavaria in October Charles IV is definitely German king, first without anti-king.
  • Engelbert III. is Count of the Mark.
Ersturkundliche mentions

Disasters

  • Beginning of the first outbreak of the plague in Europe since the Justinian plague 600 years ago. Originally from China (1331 ), it arrives in October with the trade to Messina in Sicily and then moves via Marseille throughout France and Europe to Iceland and Greenland up. About the Brenner Pass, she manages only within two years. Prague remains completely spared from this first plague. From now on, the plague should again be the scourge of humanity in Europe.
  • Famine in France by a poisonous grain fungus that causes the Anthony's fire

Born

  • 06 February: Dorothea of ​​Montau, German Catholic saints († 1394)
  • MARCH 25: Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic and Doctor of the Church († 1380 )

Died

  • April 09: William of Ockham, English philosopher and theologian (c. 1285)
  • 07 July: .. Dietrich VII / IX, Count of Cleves (c. 1291 )
  • Abner of Burgos, Spanish physician and philosopher (* 1270)
  • Pir Umar Halveti, Islamic mystic and founder of the Tariqa Halveti - Order
  • Johann Viktring, historian and abbot of the Cistercian monastery pin Viktring (c. 1270)
  • (um): Adolf II von der Mark, Count of Mark and Cleves
April 2014 List of centuries 12th century 16th century 1300s (decade) 1310s 1320s 1340s 1370s 1380s 1337 1342 1352 1357 War of the Breton Succession Charles I, Duke of Brittany Armenian calendar Aztec calendar Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Dai people Iranian calendars Coptic calendar Malayalam calendar June 19 June 20 Battle of La Roche-Derrien La Roche-Derrien Auguste Rodin Siege of Calais (1346) Edward III of England Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Engelbert III of the Mark County of Mark Plague of Justinian Dorothea of Montau April 9 July 7 Dietrich VIII, Count of Cleves August 10 August 15 Joan III, Countess of Burgundy 1308 September 14 1273 October 11 1282 October 14 1332 Adolph II of the Marck
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