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Year of the Wood Snake乙巳( at the beginning of the year, Wood Dragon甲辰)
Syria: 1736/37 ( the year in October )
- Secured 2.1 Date of birth
- 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown
- 2.3 Born around 1425
- 3.1 January to July
- 3.2 August to December
- 3.3 More death unknown
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Byzantine Empire
- July 21: After the death of his son Manuel II Palaeologus John VIII becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Europe
Imperial China
- Xuande is the fifth emperor of China during the Ming Dynasty after the death of his father Hongxi.
Science and Technology
- December 9: The University of Leuven is founded by a bull of Pope Martin V..
Culture and Society
- 1425: In the Po Valley, the original form of the Tarot card game created. It is therefore one of the oldest traditional card games in the world.
Religion
Born
Secured birth
- January 5: Henry IV, King of Castile and León ( † 1474 )
- On February 2nd, Eleanor, Queen of Navarre († 1479 )
- March 21: Henry de Beauchamp, English nobleman, 1st Duke of Warwick ( † 1446 )
- APRIL 30:. Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxony German († 1482 )
- JUNE 28: Adolf of Cleves, 1475 Lieutenant General of the Burgundian Netherlands († 1492)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Basinio Basini, Italian epic poet and lyricist († 1457 )
- Elisabeth of Brandenburg, German Princess of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania ( † 1465 )
- Antoine Champion, Bishop of Mondovi and Geneva ( † 1495 )
- Juana Enríquez, Castilian nobles, Queen of the Kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon († 1468 )
- Johan van den Mynnesten, German - Dutch painter and engraver († 1504)
- John Nauclerus, German scholar, jurist, theologian and historian († 1510)
- Werner Rolevinck, German Carthusian monk († 1502)
- Tito Strozzi Vespasian, Italian humanist († 1505)
- Johann von Wesel, German theologian († 1481 )
- John II, Duke of Calabria, Lorraine and Girona ( † 1470 )
Born around 1425
- Sibet Attena, East Frisian chieftain of Esen, Stedesdorf and Witt mouth († 1473 )
- William Douglas, Scottish nobleman, 8th Earl of Douglas, 2nd Earl of Avondale († 1451 )
- Olivier de la Marche, Burgundian writer and Generalmünzmeister of funds († 1502)
- Jaroslav Lev of Rosental, Bohemian nobleman († 1480)
- Peter Schoeffer, German booksellers and publishers († 1503)
- Eric II, Duke of Pomerania - Wolgast, Pomerania and Stettin ( † 1474 )
- Wilhelm II, German Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg († 1503)
- Richard Fowler, English Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1477 )
Portrait of Adolf of Cleves, 1485
John Nauclerus
Olivier de la Marche
Peter Schoeffer. Monument in Gernsheim, 1836
Died
January to July
- January 6: John III. Without grace, Fürstelekt of Liege, Duke of Straubing- Holland (* 1374 )
- January 18: Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March ( 1391 * )
- JANUARY 26: Catherine of Burgundy, Duchess in the Habsburg foreland (* 1378 )
- MAY 24: Murdoch Stewart, Scottish nobleman, 2nd Duke of Albany ( * 1362 )
- MAY 29: Hongxi, fourth Chinese emperors of the Ming Dynasty ( 1378 * )
- JULY 21: Manuel II, Emperor of Byzantium (* 1350)
Siegel Catherine of Burgundy
Hongxi
Emperor Manuel II
August to December
- SEPTEMBER 8: Charles III. the noble, King of Navarre (* 1361 )
- September 17: Bonne d' Artois, French nobleman (c. 1396 )
- SEPTEMBER 17: Vincent von Wartenberg, Bohemian nobleman, Colonel Viscount of Bohemia
- After November 24: Bohuslav of Swan Mountain, Bohemian nobleman, politician, and military leader
- November 29: Alfonso de Aragón y Eiximenis, Spanish nobleman, 2nd Duke of Gandia ( * after 1358 )
- December 25: Santa Claus Seyringer, Benedictine and mystic, Rector of the University of Vienna (c. 1360 )
More death unknown
- Apel Vitzthum the Elder, German knight
- Sophie of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia (* 1376 )
- Jean de Bethencourt, Norman nobleman, conqueror of the Canary Islands Castile (* 1362 )
- Takatsukasa Fuyuie, Japanese nobleman (* 1357 )
- Künga Trashi, clergyman of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, Dharma (* 1349 )
- John of Venningen, German Imperial Knight
- 1425: Lluís Borrassà, Catalan painter (c. 1375 )