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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅( at the beginning of the year fire - buffalo丁丑)

Syria: 1709/10 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Asia

• March: Tamerlane begins a campaign against India.
• December: Timur conquered Delhi and is aimed at the population a bloodbath.

Europe

• The German Order sells the Vitalienbrüder of Gotland.
• The Irish monastery of Glendalough is burned by British troops.
• First mention of the castle Tocnik
• Scheurenstraße, the North Sea island Spiekeroog, Souboz and Tenna be mentioned for the first time in a document.

Science and Technology

• The oldest canal in Germany is completed, the Stecknitz at Mölln.

Religion

Born

• JULY 25: Francesco Filelfo, Italian humanist († 1481 )

• Carlo Marsuppini, Italian humanist and statesman († 1453)

Died

• January 06: Rupert II, Elector of the Palatinate (* 1325 )
• January 21: Frederick V, Burggraf of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern (c. 1333)

• June 24: Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋), founder of the Ming Dynasty ( 1328 * )

• JULY 20: Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, English nobleman (* 1374 )

• December 04: Gerard van Zutphen Zerbold, Dutch theologian and writer (* 1367 )