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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 )