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Heads of State

Year of the Earth horse戊午( at the beginning of the year Fire Snake丁巳)

Syria: 1689/90 ( the year in October )

• 2.1 Exact date of birth unknown
• 2.2 Born around 1378

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• April 8: Urban VI. is elected Pope. He is weeks later cause of the Western Schism.
• July 22: The city government of Florence is overthrown during the Ciompi revolt. Conflicting interests of the rebel cause, however, after a few weeks of their return.
• September 20: Clement VII is anti-pope.

• November 29: The winning already on July 6, 1376 Wenceslas of Luxembourg, after the death of his father Charles IV German king.
• The War of Chioggia between the two maritime republics of Genoa and Venice begins with an attack by the Genoese at Chioggia (up to 1381 ).
• First mention of Mickten, today part of Dresden

Nature and Environment

• Seegfrörne: Lake Constance is completely frozen.

Born

• January 23: . Ludwig III, Elector of the Palatinate († 1436 )

• 02 March: Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford († 1403 )

• October 24: David Stewart, 1st Duke of Rothesay, Scottish heir († 1402)

• December 31:. Callixtus III, Pope from 1455 to 1458 († 1458 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Joan II, Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne († 1422 )
• John Oldcastle, leader of the English Lollards († 1417 )
• Guidantonio da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino († 1443 )

Born around 1378

• George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus ( † 1402)
• Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith († 1455 )

Died

• MARCH 27: Gregory XI, Pope from 1370 to 1378 (* 1329 ).

• 05 April Gusai, Japanese poet (* 1284)

• 04 August: Galeazzo II Visconti, founder of the University of Pavia and diplomat (c. 1329 )

• November 29: Charles IV, Holy Roman -German Emperor (* 1316 )