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Year of the Earth Ox己丑(at the beginning of Earth Rat戊子)

Syria: 1780/81 ( the year in October )

• Secured 2.1 Date of birth
• 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown
• 2.3 Born around 1469

Events

Politics and World Affairs

After he has helped Edward IV of York during the Wars of the Roses to the throne of England, replaced Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, the king's brother, the pages. The two hit Edward in the battle of Edgecote Moor on July 26 and take the King caught it.

Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile married on October 19. Thus the foundation for a later unification of the two kingdoms of Aragon and Castile is laid to Spain.

• The Hanseatic League and England begin the naval war to the Hanseatic privileges.
• Lorenzo de Medici, il Magnifico ( the Magnificent ), the new lord of the city of Florence.
• Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, ( counter-) King of Bohemia.

Economy

• Privilege for the introduction of the printing press as a precursor of the patent

Religion

• The papal bull In supremae dignitatis specula built, among other things, the Diocese of Vienna.

Born

Secured birth

• July 26: Ferdinand II, King of Naples ( † 1496 )
• OCTOBER 27: Erasmus of Rotterdam, humanist († 1536)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Girolamo Accoramboni, Italian physician and philosopher († 1537 )
• Laura Cereta, Italian scholar, writer and suffragist († 1499 )

• Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator († 1524)
• Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism Indian († 1538)

Born around 1469

• Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Portuguese navigator, astronomer and geographer († 1533)
• Giles de Viterbo, Italian cardinal, theologian and humanist († 1532)

Died

• Louis d' Amboise, Lord of Amboise, Viscount of Thouars (* 1392 )
• Niccolo di Conti, a Venetian merchant and explorer ( * ca 1395 )
• Jakob Fugger the Elder, Augsburg master weaver, alderman and merchant, progenitor of the dynasty Fugger of the lily (* 1398 )
• Filippo Lippi, painter in Florence ( * ca 1406)
• Moctezuma I, ruler of the Aztec city-state Tenochtitlan (* 1390 )
• Pierfrancesco di Lorenzo de ' Medici the Elder, Florentine patrician (* 1430)
• Piero the Gouty, lord of the city of Florence (* 1416 )