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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Snake辛巳( at the beginning of the year Metal Dragon庚辰)

Syria: 1712/13 ( the year in October )

  • Secured 2.1 Date of birth
  • 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • January 6: Rupert coronation as German king in Cologne Cathedral
  • April 22: The pirate Klaus Störtebeker is taken and placed captured by the Hamburg Hanseatic cog Colorful Cow in front of Helgoland.
  • October 20: In Hamburg, dozens of former Vitali brothers, among them Störtebeker, decapitated and the heads are impaled as a deterrent.

Asia

  • March 24: The Mongols under Tamerlane occupy the city of Damascus, but fail with the siege of the citadel.
  • The Mongol ruler Tamerlane conquered Baghdad.

Economy

  • January 24: In Solingen hardener and grinder get a guild privilege; This is the foundation of the world famous Solingen blades industry.

Society

  • December 26: The Schiffergesellschaft in Lübeck was founded as St. Nicholas Brotherhood " to aid and comfort the living and the dead, and all who seek her honest maintenance in shipping ".

Born

Secured birth

  • MARCH 27: Duke Albrecht III. of Bavaria- Munich ( † 1460 )
  • MAY 12: Shoko, 101st emperor of Japan († 1428 )
  • October 27: Catherine of Valois, also Catherine of France, ancestress of the English Tudor († 1437)
  • 21 December: Masaccio, Italian painter († 1428 )

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Adolf VIII, Count of Holstein and Stormarn and as Adolf I Duke of Schleswig ( † 1459 )
  • Charles I, Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne († 1456 )
  • Nicholas of Cusa ( Cusanus ), German priest and scientist († 1464 )

Died

  • October 20: Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate and leader of the brothers Vitali and Likedeeler (* 1370 )
  • October: Annabella Drummond, Queen of Scotland (c. 1350)
  • To 1401: Bartholomew of Pisa, Italian Franciscan monk, author of a controversial work about the life and miracles activity of Francis of Assisi
April 2014 List of centuries 13th century 17th century 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s (decade) 1410s 1440s 1391 1396 1406 1411 Armenian calendar Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Dai people Iranian calendars Coptic calendar Malayalam calendar Rupert, King of Germany Mongol Empire Albert III, Duke of Bavaria July 15 1436 July 23 Francesco I. Sforza 1466 August 30 1477 1479 December 21 Adolphus VIII, Count of Holstein House of Bourbon Auvergne (region) May 18 1326 1332 May 25 Maria, Queen of Sicily 1363 Anabella Drummond Richard II of England
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