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Heads of State
Year of the Earth- sheep己未( at the beginning of earth - horse戊午)
Syria: 1750/51 ( the year in October )
- Secured 2.1 Date of birth
- 2.2 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
- May 4: Battle of Grotniki during the Hussite Wars
- End of the reign of Erik VII of Denmark
Religion
Pope Eugene IV includes a Union agreement with the Greek Orthodox Church. This success, which gives hope for an end to the ongoing since 1054 Oriental schism in the Christian Church, helps the Pope to great prestige and weakens the restraining the conciliar pope critical Council of Basel. Eugene IV moved the a few years before it split council of Ferrara to Florence. The remaining part consists in Basel on November 5, Eugen and dials in a few hour-long conclave Amadeus VIII of Savoy to the Pope, who gives himself the name of Felix V.. This is considered the last historical Antipope.
Raban of Helmstatt occurs after he has already resigned last year as Bishop of Speyer, in May back as Archbishop of Trier. His successor Jacob is determined by Sierck and in the chapel on his family of the Castle Malbrouck still consecrated in the same year. The new Archbishop and Elector assumes a nearly bankrupt archdiocese.
Born
Secured birth
- April 03: Ludwig II, German nobleman, Count of Württemberg- Urach († 1457 )
- MAY 29: Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, Italian Pope Pius III. († 1503)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Bernardine of Feltre, Italian Franciscan preacher and founder charitable Leihanstalten († 1494)
- Sonam Choglang, Tibetan Abbot, 2nd Penchen Lama († 1504)
- Luke Fugger, German merchant and merchant, titular King of Atlantis ( † after 1499 )
- Francesco di Giorgio, an Italian architect, sculptor and painter († 1501)
- Alexander Hegius, German humanist, priest († 1498)
- John VI. , German nobleman, Duke of Mecklenburg († 1474 )
- Cosimo Rosselli, Italian painter († 1507)
Died
First half year
- 06 February: Johann Dedenroth, German Benedictine monk, abbot
- March 01: Catherine of Lorraine, German nobleman, Margravine of Baden (* 1407)
- 20 March: Thomas Peuntner, Austrian theologian, author of several devotional works (* 1390 )
- April 25: Avigdor Kara, rabbis, scripture scholar and Kabbalist
- June 04: Adolf von Essen, German monk (c. 1350)
- 24 June: Frederick IV, Austrian nobleman, Duke of Tyrol ( * 1382 )
- June 26: Archibald Douglas, Scottish nobleman, 5th Earl of Douglas, Duke of Touraine (* 1390 )
Second half- year
- 04 September: Křišťan z Prachatic, Czech scholar, astronomer ( * before 1370 )
- 08 September: Johannes Schele, German bishop of Lübeck (* 1385-1390 )
- 06 October: William II of Diest, bishop of Strasbourg
- October 16: Ambroz Hradecký, Czech priest, preacher and politician
- OCTOBER 18: Agnes II of Brunswick - Grubenhagen, abbess of the pen Gander Home
- OCTOBER 21: Ambrogio Traversari, Italian theologian, Father General (* 1386 )
- OCTOBER 27: Albert II, Roman German king, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia (* 1397 )
- OCTOBER 29: Antoine de Vergy, French nobleman, Count of Dammartin, Marshal of France (* 1375 )
- 04 November: Raban of Helmstatt, German bishop of Speyer, Archbishop of Trier, Elector (c. 1362 )
- November 18: Anna von Veldenz, German noblewoman, Countess of Veldenz (* 1390 )
More death unknown
- Ugo Benzi, an Italian philosopher, theologian and professor of medicine (* 1360 )
- Peter Burg Dorff, German bishop of Lebus
- Eitel Friedrich I, German nobleman, Count of Hohenzollern (* 1384 )
- Joseph II, Byzantine Patriarch of Constantinople Opel (* 1416 )
- Peter of Osburg, German knight
- Nicholas of Prüm, German jurist, canon (* 1395 )
- Claus de Werve, Dutch sculptor (* 1380 )