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Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)

Syria: 1812/13 ( the year in October )

• 2.1 First half of
• 2.2 Second half of
• 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

• 3.1 Date of Death first half
• 3.2 Date of Death second half of the year
• 3.3 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• September 20: Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of the Republic of Venice, dies. His successor is Leonardo Loredan.

• Admission of the cantons of Basel (see article to the city and countryside ) and Schaffhausen in the Swiss Confederation
• Ferdinand of Aragon and Louis XII. of France to conquer the Kingdom of Naples.

Egypt

• After several changes of power Al- Ashraf Qansuh ( II ) al - Ghuri is from the Burdschiyya dynasty Sultan of the Mamluk Empire in Egypt.

Asia

• Ismail I is crowned Shah of Iran. Tabriz is the capital of the newly formed empire under the Safavid dynasty.

Voyages of discovery

• March 5: sea route to India: A third Portuguese fleet under the command of João da Nova runs in the direction of Portuguese India. Between the 13th and the 15th of May, the discovery of the island Conceição succeed.
• NOVEMBER 1: Amerigo Vespucci sailed into a bay of the new world and gives it the name Bay of All Saints. On her the city of Salvador da Bahia is produced years later. Possibly Vespucci sighted this year and the Falkland Islands.

Economy

• In Schrattenthal arises under the rule of Eyczinger the first printing office in Lower Austria.

Science and Technology

• Book printing in Venice: Invention of the music printing with movable type by Ottaviano dei Petrucci
• Jacob Wimpfeling wrote the historical work Germania.
• In the print shop of Aldus Manutius italic font is used for an edition of the works of Virgil for the first time. Both Manutius and his signature cutter Francesco Griffo claim the invention for itself later.

• Note printing by movable metal type

Example: T'Andernaken set of Jacob Obrecht

Culture

• After his return from Rome to Florence Michelangelo Buonarroti receives from the Arte della Lana influential, the wool weavers' guild, the order for a colossal statue of David. He is a huge block of marble from Carrara available which supports the Domgarten since 1468. Before, already the sculptor Agostino di Duccio ( 1464 ) and Antonio Rossellino ( 1476 ) had left and abandoned the massive block in roughly hewn state. Michelangelo's work on the statue will last until 1504.

• The Croatian poet Marko Marulić completed the epic Judita, which established his reputation as " the father of Croatian literature ". The work will be published in 1521 for the first time.
• In Lisbon, the construction of the Jerónimos Monastery ( Mosteiro dos Jerónimos ) that will take 100 years to complete begins.

Society

Disasters

• July / August: It comes to a devastating flood in Alpenvorraum and on the Danube, and the Elbe and Oder. Comparably high water volumes and water levels, there has been only in the Magdalene flood in 1342 and the floods of 1954 and 1902, only in 2013 were exceeded, the water levels of 1501 in Regensburg and Passau. ( The Vienna Danube regulation of 1972 is aligned with the flow rate of the year 1501. )

Born

First half year

• February 2: Theodor Fabricius, German Protestant theologian and reformer († 1570)
• February 24: Sixtus Birck, German playwright († 1554 )
• March 23: Pietro Andrea Mattioli, an Italian physician and botanist († 1577)

• May 6: Marcello Cervini, later Pope Marcellus II († 1555)
• MAY 18: Isabella of Austria, Queen of Denmark († 1526)

Second half- year

• SEPTEMBER 24: Gerolamo Cardano, Italian physician, mathematician and inventor († 1576 )
• October 1: Wolfgang zu Stolberg, German politician ( † 1552)
• November 4: Bertani Pietro, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1558 )
• November 14: Anna von Oldenburg, Queen Regent in East Frisia († 1575)
• December 2nd. Barnim IX, Duke of Pomerania -Stettin († 1573)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Jo Sik, Korean philosopher and writer († 1572)
• Matthew Ratzenberger, German physician and reformer († 1559 )
• Sahib I. Giray, Khan of the Crimea († 1551 )
• Perino del Vaga, Italian painter and plasterer († 1547)
• Yi Hwang, Korean philosopher and writer († 1570)
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, English politician († 1551 )

Died

Date of Death first half

• January 03: ʿ Alī Mīr Shir Nawā'ī, Central Asian politician, builder, mystic and poet at the court of the Timurid (* 1441 )
• January 27: Thomas Langton, English bishop
• 01 February: Sigismund of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria - Munich (* 1439)

• March 26: Dietrich Basedow, Lübeck councilor, businessman and member of the Circle Society (c. 1420 )
• MARCH 28: Martin Prenninger called Martin Uranius, German humanist and jurist (* 1450 )
• April 22: Domenico della Rovere, Cardinal of the Catholic Church (* 1442 )

Date of Death second half of the year

• 05 July: Cimburga of Baden, Baden Countess, Countess of Nassau- Dillenburg (* 1450 )
• July 13: Margaret of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (* 1449 )

• September 20: Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice (c. 1420 )
• September 28: Jean Cordier, Dutch tenor (* 1440)

• 06 November: Giovanni della Rovere, Signore of Senigallia in the Marche (* 1457 )
• NOVEMBER 19: Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria- Landshut (* 1436 )

More death unknown

• Margaret of Bavaria, Electress of the Palatinate (* 1456 )
• Gaspar Corte- Real, Portuguese explorer (* 1450 )
• January Ostroróg, voivode of Poznań, political writer and adviser to the Polish kings (* 1436 )