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Heads of State

Year of The Water Horse壬午( at the beginning of the year metal snake辛巳)

Syria: 1773/74 ( the year in October )

Events

January 22: The Portuguese discovered the island of São Vicente, one of the Cape Verde Islands located in the Atlantic Ocean.

May 7: Pasqual Malipiero, Doge of Venice, dies. His successor will Cristoforo Moro. Under him the long peaceful era of the Maritime Republic comes to an end.
July 1: Battle of Seckenheim
October 28: Decision in the Mainz pin feud: Archbishop Adolf II of Nassau captured Mainz and ended its existence as a free city.
December 2: Johann Giskra takes the Wallachian King Vlad III. Dracula captured by a delusion and passes it to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus.

Ulrich Haan opened the first printing office in Vienna, it will be destroyed soon because of a printed pamphlet with him against Mayor Holzer by the mob. Haan emigrated to Rome.

March 31: Pope Pius II discards the existing with the Hussites and Bohemian compacts requires the church reunification in Bohemia. It was not until over a century later fulfilled this wish.

MAY 31: Philip II of Hanau -Lichtenberg, German nobleman, Count of Hanau- Lichtenberg ( † 1504)
JUNE 27:. , Louis XII, a French nobleman, king of France († 1515)

July 24: John Manardus, Italian physician († 1536)
AUGUST 26: Piero de Ponte, Italian 45th Grand Master of the Order of Malta († 1535)

September 08: Conrad Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden, German humanist, canons († 1547)
September 16: Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher, humanist († 1525)

NOVEMBER 26: Alexander von Pfalz- Zweibrücken, German nobleman, Duke of Zweibrücken and Veldenz († 1514)
December 28: Louise of Savoy, French nobleman, nun, Blessed († 1503)

Fabian von Auerswald, German nobleman, Author ( † after 1540)
Jodocus Badius, Flemish printer, humanist († 1535)
Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter, draftsman († 1521 )
Joanna of Castile, Spanish noblewoman, Princess of Castile, Queen of Portugal ( † 1530)
Jacob Köbel, German town clerk, author, printer, publisher († 1533)
Jacob of love stone, German nobleman, Archbishop of Mainz ( † 1508)
Petrus Magni, Swedish Bishop († 1534)
La Sen Thai Puvanart, Laotian King of Long Chang ( † 1495 )
Clemente Grosso della Rovere, Italian noble Cardinal († 1504)
Ulrich von Sax, Swiss diplomat, leader of mercenaries, military entrepreneurs, first commander of the Swiss Army ( † 1538)

000März: Vasily II, Russian Grand Duke of Moscow ( * 1415)
APRIL 28: Ulrich von Rosenberg, Bohemian nobleman, Baron von Rosenberg, governor of Bohemia (* 1403 )

JUNE 25: Catherine d' Alençon, French nobleman, Duchess of Bavaria- Ingolstadt ( * before 1396 )

September 01: Theobald Schweinpeck, Austrian bishop of Lavant
September 17: Anna of Saxony, German noblewoman, Princess of Saxony, Landgrave of Hesse (* 1420 )

Luke Watzenrode the Elder, Silesian trade (b. 1400)
Dietrich Ebbracht, German canon, scholastics, prothonotary, church leaders (* 1395 )
Sebald Fyoll, German painter (* 1400-1410 )
Niccolo II Gattilusio, Genoese Archon of Lesbos ( * after 1415)
Michele Giambono, Venetian painter, Mosaizist (* 1400)
Dai Jin, Chinese painter (* 1388 )
Konrad von Lintorff, German bishop of Havel mountain ( * before 1405)
Bernard de Pardiac, French nobleman, Count of Pardiac, La Marche and Castres, Duke of Nemours (* 1400)
Alain IX. de Rohan, French nobleman, Count of Porhoët, Baron of Pontchâteau
Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy (* 1376 )
Hans von Tübingen, German painter, engraver, a glass painter (c. 1400)

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