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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)

Syria: 1748/49 ( the year in October )

  • 2.1 Exact date of birth unknown
  • 3.1 First half of
  • 3.2 Second half of
  • 3.3 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Duke Albrecht V of the House of Habsburg inherited after the death of the last Luxembourger Sigismund a large part of its possessions; 1438 he is also chosen to be his successor as German king.
  • Henry the Navigator fails when trying to take Tangier.
  • After the assassination of James I, his son Jakob is II, King of Scotland.

Culture

  • Jan van Eyck painted the Dresden Lady Altar. The small-format triptych is now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.

Religion

Born

  • March 07: Anna of Saxony, German nobleman, Electress of Brandenburg ( † 1512)
  • April 03: Pierre de Blarru, French canon, humanist († 1510)
  • 04 October: John IV, German nobleman, Duke of Bavaria- Munich ( † 1463 )

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Georg Altdorfer, German bishop of Chiemsee ( † 1495 )
  • Isabelle de Bourbon, French nobleman, Duchess of Burgundy ( † 1465 )
  • Filippo Buonaccorsi, Italian humanist and statesman († 1497 )
  • Elisabeth von Habsburg, Austrian nobles, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania († 1505)
  • Jan of Rabštejna, Bohemian priest, diplomat († 1473 )
  • Isaac Abrabanel, Jewish politician and financier in the service of the Kings of Portugal, Spain, Naples, and the Doge of Venice ( † 1508)

Died

First half year

  • January 03: Catherine de Valois, French nobles, Queen of England (* 1401 )
  • FEBRUARY 21: James I, King of Scotland (* 1394)
  • MARCH 22: John III. Diepholz, German bishop of Osnabrück
  • MARCH 24: Jean de Rochetaillée, French Patriarch of Constantinople Opel, Bishop of Geneva and Paris, Archbishop of Rouen
  • March 26: Walter Stewart, Scottish nobleman, 1st Earl of Atholl (* 1360 )
  • May 02: Gjon Kastrioti I., Albanian prince
  • 06 May: Bolko IV, Silesian nobleman, robber barons, Duke of Falkenberg and Strehlitz (* 1363-1367 )
  • MAY 18: Konrad VII of Soest, German bishop of Regensburg (c. 1370 )
  • May 22: Jean de Villiers de L' Isle- Adam, a French nobleman, Marshal of France (* 1384 )

Second half- year

  • July 09: Joan of Navarre, French nobles, Duchess of Brittany, Queen of England (* 1370 )
  • July 14: Adolf VII, German nobleman, Duke of Jülich and Berg
  • AUGUST 28: Ulrich Putsch, German bishop of Brixen
  • 09 September: Jan Roháč z Dubé, Bohemian Hussite
  • 09 December: Sigismund of Luxembourg, Holy Roman German Emperor, King of Bohemia and King of Hungary (* 1368 )
  • December: Henry of Böckenförde, German nobleman, Land Master of the Teutonic Order in Livonia

More death unknown

  • Lorenz von Brösau, Czech writer and chronicler (* 1370 )
  • Divis Bořek z Miletínka, Bohemian captain
  • Niccolo Niccoli, Italian merchant and humanist (* 1364 )
  • Hans von Polenz, German nobleman, bailiff (* 1380-1385 )
  • Johann (Hans) of Quitzow, German robber barons (* 1370 )
  • Ulrich von Richental, German historian (* 1360 )
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