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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Rat庚子(at the beginning of Earth Pig己亥)

Syria: 1791/92 ( the year in October )

• Secured 2.1 Date of birth
• 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown
• 2.3 Born in 1480

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• MAY 23: The first siege of Rhodes by the Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed II begins, but after a last unsuccessful attempt to storm on 28 July ends with the unsuccessful withdrawal of the besiegers. The Ottomans only return again in 1522, to besiege Rhodes again.
• July 28: In Otranto campaign of the Ottoman Empire lands a many thousand -strong army in Apulia, Otranto prefers and seeks the surrender of the city. When she is refused, the siege begins.
• August 11: The Ottomans conquer Otranto in Italy and thus control the exit of the Adriatic Sea. The city acts as a bridge until 1481, the Ottomans initially threaten from which the environment and devastate and in which they are finally trapped themselves by troops of the Kingdom of Naples.
• August 14: After the conquest of the citadel in Otranto, 800 civilians who refuse to convert to Islam, beheaded by Ottoman warriors.
• October 8 to November 11. Ivan III, ruler of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Russia freed while standing on the Ugra from the rule of the Golden Horde.

Science and Technology

• Leonardo da Vinci invented the parachute.

Culture

• Diebold Schilling the Elder wrote the Great Burgundian Chronicle.

Religion

• Ferdinand II and Isabella I sent for the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon Inquisition a track down to ( forcibly ) converted Jews ( Conversos or Marranos so-called ) and Moors ( Moriscos ) and punish those who are indeed publicly converted to Christianity, but are suspected of secretly their previous religion to continue to exercise, so they were heretics by definition. The Spanish Inquisition is almost entirely in the hands of the monarch. The Roman Curia has to run its course only a very limited influence. Pope Sixtus IV, who must approve the establishment has, opposite this first reservations. As Spain has, however, taken Naples, he gives in and appointed two Dominicans as inquisitors, which will be followed by more.

Disasters

• Around the 1st around August performs continuous rain and late snowmelt in the Alps to flooding on the river Aare and Rhine. According to the chronicles are destroyed all the bridges between Bern and Strasbourg. The flood is considered millennium flood on the river Aare and the Upper Rhine, and is called Magdalene flood.

Born

Secured birth

Exact date of birth unknown

• Nicolaus of Ahlefeldt, Owner of the Manor at Seegaard
• Lorenzo Lotto, Italian painter († 1557)

• Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator († 1521)

Born in 1480

• Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter († 1538)
• Gottfried von Berlichingen, German Imperial Knight, known as Götz von Berlichingen " with the iron hand " († 1562)
• Mikuláš z Konáč Hodiškova, Czech printer, publisher, translator and writer († 1546)
• John Murmellius, Dutch scholar, philologist, poet and humanist († 1517)
• Wendel Roskopf, German architect († 1549)
• Niccolò Soggi, Italian painter († 1552)
• Bartolomeo Veneto, Italian painter († after 1530 )

Died

• JANUARY 5: Jakob von Lichtenberg, Vogt of Strasbourg and last Lord of Lichtenberg ( * 1416 )
• May 10: Philip I ( the Elder), Count of Hanau- Lichtenberg ( * 1417 )

• Vecchietta, Italian painter of the Sienese school (* 1410)