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Heads of State

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

Syria: 1707/ 08 ( the year in October )

  • 2.1 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • SEPTEMBER 25: A Crusade under the Hungarian king Sigismund for relief of Byzantium ends with the crushing defeat at Nicopolis against the Ottomans (see Battle of Nicopolis ).
  • September 25: More sharing of Leopoldine line of the Habsburgs after the division in the Treaty of Neuberg 1379
  • Raban of Helmstatt is Bishop of Speyer.
  • Tschappina is first mentioned.

Culture

  • In Milan, the dice game is prohibited. He who does so on must be 200 lire expect fines and move a minimum of 100 miles from the city.
  • Beautiful Fountain in Nuremberg is finished.

Born

  • JULY 31: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy ( † 1467 )

Exact date of birth unknown

  • John Capgrave, English historian († 1464 )

Died

  • JULY 31: William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (* 1342 )
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