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Heads of State

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

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

  • 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 )
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