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Year of the Wood Tiger甲寅( at the beginning of the year, water buffalo癸丑)
Syria: 1745/46 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- May 30: With the battle of Lipan end the Hussite Wars. The more radical encampments are subject to the forces of the Utraquists and Catholics in Bohemia.
- Cosimo de ' Medici takes power in Florence.
- The Portuguese navigator Gil Eanes overcomes the Cape Bojador.
- The Engelbrekt Riot breaks for midsummer in Sweden.
- Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, sponsors the St. Order of Saint Maurice.
- Władysław III. becomes King of Poland.
- China under the Ming Emperor Xuande and Japan under the Muromachi shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori build the roar - Bugyo system (唐 船 奉行) mutual trade missions. ( written in Mansai Jugo Nikki (満 済 准 后 日记) )
Culture
- Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, Bruges
- Documentary first mention of the Dresden Striezelmarkt
- For the first time the Nuremberg Christmas market (first witness of 1628 )
Society
The Leonese knight Suero de Quiñones calls between July 10 and August 9 on the bridge of the Hospital de Órbigo every pilgrim to Santiago Knights to a knightly duel out the Paso Honroso. According to tradition, it is said, Don Suero have ridden 300 lances and not lost a duel.
Born
- January 07: Adolf, Duke of Bavaria -Munich out of the house of Wittelsbach († 1441 )
- 09 March: Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate († 1443 )
- JULY 25: Jacopo da Volterra, Italian humanist († 1516)
- 000August: Sebastian I, German nobleman, Count of Ortenbourg († 1490 )
- AUGUST 29: Janus Pannonius, Bishop of Pécs († 1472 )
- September 23: Jolande of France, Duchess of Savoy († 1478)
- December 28: Antonio Grimani, 76th Doge of Venice ( † 1523)
- Markus von Baden: Baden Margrave († 1478)
- Battista Guarino, Italian humanist († 1513)
- Constantine Lascaris, Byzantine scholar († 1501)
- Ardicino della Porta, Italian cardinal († 1493 )
- Johann II von Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman from the House of Rosenberg, the chief captain, in Silesia and Bohemia highest chamberlain († 1472 )
- Girolamo Basso della Rovere, Italian cardinal († 1507)
- Michael Wolgemut, German painter († 1519)
- To 1434: Adrian I of Bubenberg Bernese bailiff, and a commander in the Battle of Murten ( † 1479 )
Died
- 06 March: Heinrich Faber, German abbot of Ochsenhausen
- March 14: Thomas Chaucer, English nobleman (* 1367 )
- May 05: Dietrich Engelhus, German teacher and author (c. 1362 )
- 05 May: Johannes Rothe, German Town Clerk, canons, historian and author (* 1360 )
- May 30: Andreas Prokop, commander of the Hussites (* 1380 )
- 000Juni: Maria of Berry, French nobleman, Duchess of Auvergne (c. 1367 )
- 01 June: Władysław II Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania, King of Poland (* 1348 )
- JUNE 11: Bernard I, German nobleman, Prince of Lüneburg and Braunschweig -Wolfenbüttel (* 1358-1364 )
- 04 August: Konrad von Zwole, Moravian nobleman, Bishop of Olomouc
- AUGUST 26: Margaret of the Palatinate, German nobleman, Duchess of Lorraine (* 1376 )
- Abd al- Aziz II, Caliph of the Hafsids in Ifriqiya
- Juan Alfonso de Baena, Castilian troubadour (* 1375 )
- Jean I de Bourbon, a French nobleman, Duke of Bourbon ( * 1381 )
- Puta, the younger of Častolowitz, Bohemian nobleman, Pawn Mr. Glatz, Frankenstein and Münsterberg
- Johann Darsow, German Alderman of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- Konrad von Dhaun, German Elector, Archbishop of Mainz (* 1380 )
- Amda Jesus, Emperor of Ethiopia