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Year of the Water Tiger壬寅( at the beginning of the year metal buffalo辛丑)
Syria: 1793/94 ( the year in October )
- Secured 2.1 Date of birth
- 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Portuguese voyages of discovery
- JANUARY 21: The Portuguese Diogo de Azambuja put under on the Gold Coast in Ghana today the foundation for the later Fort São Jorge da Mina or Elmina.
- The Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reached the first European navigators the territory of the Congo estuary and the present-day Angola. Subsequently arise trade offices. The discoveries Caos are a prerequisite for the discovery journey of Bartolomeo Diaz in 1488, where he reached the Cape of Good Hope.
Europe
- August 21: Papal troops under the command Roberto Malatesta win the battle of Campomorto against the army of Naples under Duke Alfonso of Calabria.
- By Münsinger contract of 14 December, the two parts into which the County of Württemberg has decayed since the Nürtinger Treaty of 1442, reunited.
- December 23: In the Peace of Arras regulate the King of France Louis XI. and Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg their claims in terms of Burgundy. The formerly great duchy is divided.
- With a surprise attack Spanish troops conquer during the Reconquista the Moorish fortress of Alhama de Granada.
- Turin is the residence of the House of Savoy.
Asia
- After the death of his son Raya Malla Malla Yakshya is ruler of the Malla kingdom with its capital in Bhaktapur.
Science and Culture
- June 28: In Munich, the first book printed there, the pilgrim leader Indulgentiae ecclesiarum principalium urbis Romae appears from the dispensary of Johann Schaur.
Born
Secured birth
- June 29: Mary, princess of Spain and Queen of Portugal († 1517)
- October 7: Ernst, Margrave of Baden († 1553)
- October 18: Philip III. of Hanau- Lichtenberg, Count of Hanau- Lichtenberg ( † 1538)
- December 9: Frederick II, Elector of the Palatinate († 1556 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Catherine d' Amboise, French poet and patron († 1549)
- Abraham ben Solomon of Torrutiel, Spanish historian († unknown)
- Christian Beyer, Saxon Chancellor ( † 1535)
- John Oecolampadius, Basel reformer († 1531)
- Georg Tannstetter, German humanist, astronomer, astrologer and physician († 1535)
Died
- January 22: Arnold of Unkel, Auxiliary Bishop of Köln
- March 27: Mary, Duchess of Burgundy (* 1457 )
- March 14: Conrad III. Pappenheim, Jägermeister under Duke Wilhelm III. and ducal Council and Saxon Hofmeister
- 07 May: Diether von Isenburg, Archbishop of Mainz ( 1459-1462 and 1475-1482 ) (* 1412 )
- 08 May: Ludwig von Rothstein, Swabian nobleman
- August 22: Mechthild von der Pfalz, Archduchess; prominent figure in medieval Germany (* 1419 )
- August 25: Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI. of England and Regent (* 1429)
- Hugo van der Goes, Dutch painter (c. 1440)