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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Earth Rat戊子( at the beginning of the year fire - pig丁亥)

Syria: 1779/80 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• June 23: In the Battle of Straelen Adolf of Egmond, Duke defeated by money, the troops of John I of Cleves.
• October 1: In the Battle of Rájec and Zvole a Hungarian mercenary army under Franz von Hag defeated the King's army. Among the approximately 600 casualties including the Bohemian military leader Zdeněk Kostka Postupic.

• The Abbey of St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch acquire among the the county of Toggenburg. Through the acquisitions of several areas of the monastic state becomes an early modern territorial state. After the acquisition of the Toggenburg "Prince Land", the term became common in the use of language for the lied between Rorschach and Wil SG heartland of the Imperial Abbey "Old" landscape.

Africa

• The Songhai calibration conquered Timbuktu and Djenne, the commercial city.

Religion

• January 6: Pope Paul II permitted the worship Bishop of Augsburg Simpert as saints.
• Laying the foundation stone of the Frauenkirche in Munich

Born

• August 3: Albrecht I, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels and Count of Glatz († 1511)
• September 27: Siegmund, Margrave of Brandenburg- Kulmbach († 1495 )

• Henry I, Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg ( † 1532)
• Ibn -i Kemal, Ottoman scholar and historiographer († 1534)
• Jean II, Lord of Monaco ( † 1505)
• George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, English nobleman († 1538)

Died

• April 24: Martin IUPAC, Czech theologian and diplomat of the Hussites
• 18 May: Johannes Hartlieb, German physician, court poet and translator (c. 1400)

• June 6: Adrian von Borsselen, Lord of Brigdamme, Zoutelande and Sint Laurens (* 1417 )
• JUNE 30: Eleanor Talbot, mistress of King Edward IV (* 1435 )

• August 22: Charles de Melun, Grand Master of France
• SEPTEMBER 26: Juan de Torquemada, Spanish theologian (* 1388 )
• October 9: Sigismondo Malatesta, Italian Condottiere, poet and patron of the arts (* 1417 )
• November 24: Jean de Dunois, Grand Chamberlain of France ( * 1402)
• December 28: Jean Michel, Bishop of Lausanne

• Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (* 1399 )