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Heads of State

Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)

Syria: 1797/98 ( the year in October )

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

Events

Politics and World Affairs

England

Holy Roman Empire

Republic of Venice

  • Agostino Barbarigo follows his brother Marco after the Doge of Venice. It is one of the rare cases where a family successively does twice the Doge of the Maritime Republic.

Mesoamerica

  • Auítzotl will succeed his late brother Tizoc the ruler of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.

Economy

  • The black buck is founded as a company in Wiesbaden, making it today the oldest hotel in Germany.

Culture

Society

  • The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer, one of the first printed " Bestseller ," appears in Speyer. It forms the basis and justification for centuries of witch hunts.

Born

Secured birth

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Jerome Ämiliani, Italian religious founder and patron saint of orphans ( † 1537 )
  • Johann Apel, German jurist and humanist († 1536)
  • Melchior Fendt, German physicist and physician († 1564)

Died

  • June: Claus von Ahlefeldt, Amtshauptmann and Mr. Gut Marslev and Torp ( * 1420 )
  • July 14: Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (* 1456 )
  • JULY 23: Maria of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans ( * 1426)
  • August 26: Ernst of Saxony, Elector of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen (* 1441 )
  • To 1486: Diogo Cão, the Portuguese navigator and explorer
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