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Heads of State

Year of the Water Pig癸亥( at the beginning of the year Water Dog壬戌)

Syria: 1754/55 ( the year in October )

  • Secured 2.1 Date of birth
  • 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown
  • Secured 3.1 Date of Death
  • 3.2 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Science and Technology

  • To 1443: In Naples, the Accademia Pontaniana is founded, one of the oldest scientific academies.

Culture

  • Hans Puchsbaum begins with the Gothic reconstruction of the Romanesque parish church of Steyr.

Society

Nature and Environment

  • South of New Zealand suggests a meteorite, causing a 24 -mile Mahuika crater. The subsequent tsunami leads to deposits, which are 130 meters above sea level. 2005 debris of this meteorite found 4000 km from the impact site.

Born

Secured birth

  • On February 2nd, Elisabeth of Bavaria, German aristocrat, Princess of Bavaria- Munich, Electress of Saxony († 1484 )
  • FEBRUARY 12: Giovanni II Bentivoglio, an Italian aristocrat and despot († 1508)
  • FEBRUARY 23: Matthias Corvinus, Bohemian nobleman, king of Hungary († 1490 )
  • 24 June: Hans von Werther, German nobleman, Imperial Knight († 1533)
  • JULY 31:. Albrecht III, German nobleman, Duke of Saxony and founder of the Albertine, later royal Saxon line († 1500)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Gilbert de Bourbon- Montpensier, French nobleman, Count of Montpensier, Duke of Sessa and Viceroy of Naples ( † 1496 )
  • Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English military commander and courtier († 1524)
  • Piero del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter († 1496 )
  • Riccardo Quartararo, Italian painter († 1506)
  • Girolamo Riario, Italian nobleman, Lord of Imola and Forlì ( † 1488 )
  • Shōhaku, Japanese poet († 1527)
  • Wilhelm Westphal, German bishop of Lübeck ( † 1509 )

Died

Backed death

  • MAY 9: Niccolò Albergati, Italian diplomat, Cardinal (* 1373 )
  • May 30: Hans Laxmand, Archbishop of Lund
  • Mai: John II, German nobleman, Count of Nassau- Dillenburg (* 1365 )
  • June 5: Ferdinand of Aviz, Portuguese Grand Master of Avizordens (* 1402)
  • August 16th: Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese nobleman, 7th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate (* 1434 )

More death unknown

  • Nicholas Burgmann, German Domdekan, chronicler (* 1360 )
  • Albrecht von Březí, Bishop of Leitomischl
  • Bartošek z Drahonic, Bohemian chronicler (* 1380 )
  • Friedrich XII. , German nobleman, Count of Hohenzollern ( * before 1401 )
  • Konrad Kron, German bishop of Lebus
  • Dietrich Tanke, Priest of the Teutonic Order
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