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Heads of State

Year of the Fire sheep丁未( at the beginning of the year Fire Horse丙午)

Syria: 1798/99 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Wars of the Roses in England

• MAY 24: In Dublin, in the time of the Wars of the Roses of the impostor Lambert Simnel as an English king Edward VI. crowned. The London Regent Henry VII, however, holds the real Edward of Warwick from the House of York caught in the Tower. Trying to Henry VII to oust from power, fails to make it in the final battle of Stoke, with the defeat of the Yorkist.

More Events in Europe

• APRIL 28: The defeat of the Confederates against the Duchy of Milan in the battle of Crevola temporarily slows its expansion drive south of the Alps.
• August 18: The city of Malaga is taken during the Reconquista of the armed forces of the Catholic Monarchs.

• The double-headed eagle is taken to the state symbol of Russia, St. George in the Moscow city coat of arms.

Imperial China

• September 9: After the death of his father Chenghua will Hongzhi Emperor of China from the Ming Dynasty.

Voyages of discovery

• May 7: The Portuguese researchers Pêro da Covilhã embarks on a journey in search of the kingdom of Prester John.

Culture

Born

• February 8: Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg ( † 1550)
• March 5: Rosine of Baden, Margrave of Baden ( † 1554 )
• May 7: Galeazzo Flavio Capella, Italian writer and statesman († 1537 )

• July 5th: John Gramann, German reformer and writer of hymns († 1541)
• 24 August: Bartholomew Bernhardi, theologian and reformer († 1551 )
• September 10: Pope Julius III. († 1555)

• Gabriel Zwilling, German theologian and reformer († 1558 )

Died

• March 21: Niklaus von Flue, Swiss hermit, ascetic and mystic (* 1417 )
• March 21: Bernhard von Rohr, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1466 to 1482 (* 1421 )
• July 16: Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (* 1435/36 )

• Mara Brankovic, Serbian princess, wife of Sultan Murad II (* 1412 )