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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Monkey戊申( at the beginning of the year fire - sheep丁未)

Syria: 1799/1800 ( the year in October )

  • Secured 3.1 Date of Death
  • 3.2 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Voyages of discovery

  • February 3: The Portuguese Bartolomeu Diaz puts his ship was the first European east of the Cape of Good Hope in Mossel Bay in South Africa.

Holy Roman Empire

France

  • September 9: After the death of her father, Francis II Anne Duchess of Brittany is.

Scotland

Culture

  • The Missal Aboense is printed. The incunabula is the first printed book for Finland. Client is Konrad Bitz, Bishop of Turku.

Society

Religion

  • May 26 to September 14: The monastery Voroneţ near the town of Gura Humorului is built on behalf of the Moldavian voivode Ştefan cel Mare.

In Spain, a separate Council for the Inquisition is launched, the Consejo de la Suprema y General Inquisicion. First Chairman of this Council is the Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada. This advice is the cornerstone for the Spanish Inquisition from here on evolving into a separate authority.

Born

  • January 6: Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Protestant humanist († 1540)
  • January 20: Sebastian Münster, German and Hebrew scholar cosmograph († 1552)
  • January 25: George Steward of Waldburg- Zeil, German military leader († 1531)
  • Otto Brunfels, German botanist († 1534)
  • Georg Rhau, German printer and choirmaster († 1548)

Died

Backed death

  • MAY 9: Frederick I, Duke of Legnica and Brzeg (* 1446 )
  • June 8: Sigismund von Lamberg, Bishop of Ljubljana ( * before 1444 )
  • JUNE 11: James III, King of Scotland ( 1451 * ).
  • June 30: Clarice Orsini, as the wife of Lorenzo I de ' Medici town's ruler of Florence (* 1453)
  • JULY 18: Alvise Cadamosto, Italian navigator and explorer in the service of Portugal (* 1432 )

More death unknown

  • Borommatrailokanat, the ninth king of the Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya (now Thailand) ( * 1431)
  • Albrecht von Baden, Baden Margrave ( 1456 * )
  • Iizasa Choisai Ienao, Japanese samurai and founder of the Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto martial arts -ryu (* 1387 )
  • Sayyed Zahiruddin Mar'ashi, Iranian scholar and historian (* 1413 )
  • Uthman caliph of the Hafsids in Ifriqiya ( * before 1435 )
  • 1488: Margaret Douglas of Galloway, Scottish nobleman (* 1435 )
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