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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Monkey丙申( at the beginning of the year, wood sheep乙未)

Syria: 1727/28 ( the year in October )

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

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • The Republic of Ragusa creates the first city-state in Europe from slavery. At the same time, the slave trade is prohibited by law.

Asia

  • King Shō Hashi Chūzan of the kingdom on the island of Okinawa conquered in the late Yong Jiang - time neighboring Hokuzan.

Religion

  • Thongwa Dönden is with his birth the 6th Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Born

Secured birth

  • FEBRUARY 26:. Christoph III, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway ( † 1448 )
  • March 3: Sigismund von Sachsen, Bishop of Würzburg ( † 1471 )
  • March 27: St. Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order and Holy († 1507)
  • MAY 25: Jakob von Lichtenberg, Vogt of Strasbourg and last Lord of Lichtenberg ( † 1480)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Gijsbrecht van Brederode, Dutch bishop of Utrecht († 1475 )
  • Benedetto Cotrugli, Italian economist († 1469 )
  • Thongwa Dönden, 6th Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism († 1453 )
  • Pal Engjelli, Albanian Cardinal Archbishop of Durrës († 1470 )
  • Elisabeth of Hanau, German aristocrat († 1446 )
  • Piero I de ' Medici, Italian sole ruler of Florence ( † 1469 )
  • John Manuel of Portugal and Vilhena, Bishop of Ceuta and Guarda († 1476 )
  • Henry III. , German prince of Brunswick- Grubenhagen († 1464 )
  • To 1416: Margaret of Austria, German Electress of Saxony ( † 1486 )

Died

  • April 02: Ferdinand I, King of Aragon and Sardinia (* 1380 )
  • September 04: John I, Count of Nassau - Dillenburg German (c. 1339 )
  • September 12: Wenzel Gerard of Burenitz, Patriarch of Antioch
  • September 16: Hartmann von Werdenberg- Sargan, Bishop of Chur (c. 1350)
  • 26th December: Eleanor of Aragon, Regent of Cyprus (* 1333)
  • Limbourg Brothers, Dutch painter
  • To 1416: Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh national hero (c. 1359 )
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