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Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)

Syria: 1781/82 ( the year in October )

  • Secured 2.1 Date of birth
  • 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Duke Louis II de Bourbon founded the Order of the Thistle.
  • Portuguese navigators reach of Guinea and explore the island Corisco.
  • First documentary mention of the city of Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest

Science and Technology

Around 1470 developed Johannes Müller, known as Regiomontanus, the Jacob's staff on.

, The old man, founded Accademia Platonica, one of the first academies of sciences of modern times, under Cosimo de ' Medici, called il Vecchio in Florence.

  • The oldest German -language Seebuch is made.

Culture

Around 1470 created Schwabacher, a variant of the broken font.

Arnold Therhoernen is the first time custodians in a printed book.

The Bern aldermen Bendicht Tschachtlan and Heinrich Dittlinger customize the Tschachtlanchronik, the oldest surviving Swiss Illustrated Chronicle. This is a paper manuscript with 230 colors, mostly full-page illustrations.

The White Book of Sarnen arises, a written by the Canton Obwalden and writer Hans Schriber collection federal records and history of central Switzerland. In the book the legend of William Tell was first written down.

Religion

Pope Paul II states that the Catholic Jubilee Year should invariably take place every 25 years, beginning with the year 1475th

Nature and Environment

Born

Secured birth

  • June 30th: Charles VIII, King of France († 1498)
  • JULY 30: Teaching the Chinese emperors of the Ming Dynasty ( † 1505)
  • October 2: Elizabeth of Spain, Queen of Portugal ( as the spouse, not as regent in its own right ) and Princess of Spain ( † 1498)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Johann Eberlin of Günzburg, German Reformation theologian and author († 1533)
  • Daniel Hopfer, German Waffenätzer, etcher and wood engraver († 1536)
  • Pánfilo de Narváez, Spanish conquistador († 1528)
  • Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish cleric, singer and composer († 1528)

Died

  • Pal Engjelli, Albanian Cardinal Archbishop of Durrës (* 1416 )
  • Charles VIII, King of Sweden (* 1408 or 1409 )
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