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Year of the Earth Dragon戊辰( at the beginning of the year fire - hare丁卯)

Syria: 1819/20 ( the year in October )

Events

FEBRUARY 4: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is. The title of the Elected Roman Emperor he takes in Trento, not in Rome, at. Pope Julius II gives his consent.
FEBRUARY 28: Louis V, after the death of his father Philip, Count Palatine and Elector of the Palatinate.
March 18: After the death of his father Albrecht IV, of the wise, is William IV, Duke of Bavaria. He ruled provisionally under the tutelage of his uncle Wolfgang.
April 11: Francesco Maria della Rovere, after the death of his uncle Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino I..

June 6: Maximilian I is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops. He must give up some territories to Venice, a three -year truce was agreed.

July 23: Spaniards under the command of Pedro Navarro conquer the island Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, which is defended by Mediterranean pirates. The Spanish enclave on Morocco's coast is a disputed territory today.
JULY 31: Na'od I, Negus of Ethiopia, is killed in a campaign against the Sultanate of Ifat. Successor, David II, who would like to limit the influence of the Portuguese in his kingdom.

March: Lourenço de Almeida, son of the Indian Viceroy Francisco de Almeida, comes at a loss to one of Venice supported the Egyptian- Arab- Indian fleet killed.
December 6: The designated new governor of Portuguese India, Afonso de Albuquerque, reaches its destination, but is not recognized by his predecessor Francisco de Almeida and jailed instead.

Sengoku period in Japan: Ashikaga Ashikaga Yoshizumi Yoshitane defeated and is again Shogun.

Amerigo Vespucci was appointed first piloto mayor of the Spanish Casa de Contratación. He is primarily responsible for updating the Padrón Real, the map on which all discoveries are recorded.

February 21: Michelangelo does not arise in Bologna the bronze statue of Pope Julius II finished and will be called back from this then back to Rome, but, as he takes to complete the tomb of the Pope, but imagine the Sistine Chapel, an endeavor that Michelangelo takes only tentative and little enthusiasm.

Albrecht Dürer made as a sketch for the Heller Altar of his most famous works: Praying hands.

March 5: The comedy La Cassaria of Ludovico Ariosto has its world premiere at the court of Ferrara. It is the first major comedy in Italian.

Count Edzard I. gives the place empty market rights. Since then, there Galli market is held, now the largest beer festival in East Friesland.

Johannes Pfefferkorn written to the Jews mirror.
Erich von Braunschweig- Grubenhagen is also the successor of Hermann Hesse Prince-Bishop of Paderborn. In addition, he is the successor of Conrad IV of Rietberg Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück.
Uriel von Gemmingen is after the death of Jacob of love stone Archbishop of Mainz.
Thomas Cajetan is Superior General of the Dominicans.

MARCH 6: Humayun, Mughal emperor of India ( † 1556 )
April 4: Ercole II d' Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, son of Lucrezia Borgia († 1559 )
April 23: Georg Sabinus, German founding rector of the University of Königsberg († 1560)

9 June: Primoz Trubar, Protestant preacher; regarded as the founder of the Slovenian literature († 1586)
JULY 24: Andreas von Barby, Danish politician and bishop of Lübeck ( † 1559 )

November 23: Franz, Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg, the youngest son of Duke Henry the Middle of Lüneburg- Celle († 1549)
November 30: Andrea Palladio, the greatest architect of Mannerism in northern Italy († 1580)

December 9: Gemma R. Frisius, Flemish physician, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker († 1555)
DECEMBER 21: Thomas Naogeorg, German theologian and writer († 1563)

Bertram Earl of Ahlefeldt, Lord of the nobles Good Lehmkuhlen († 1571)
Ştefan Lăcustă, Prince of Moldavia († 1540)
Bernardo Salviati, Cardinal of the Catholic Church († 1568)
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English nobleman, military leader, diplomat and politician ( † 1549)
Petar Zoranić, Croatian writer († 1569 )

AUGUST 30: Jerome I. Biechelberger, abbot of the imperial abbey Ochsenhausen
September 23: Beatrix of Aragon, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (* 1457 )
SEPTEMBER 27: Simone del Pollaiuolo, Italian architect of the Renaissance ( * 1457 )
OCTOBER 19: Hermann IV of Hesse, Archbishop of Cologne and Prince-Bishop of Paderborn ( * 1450 )

Isaac Abrabanel, Jewish Bible commentator and philosopher, politician and financier in the service of the Kings of Portugal, Spain and Naples and the Doge of Venice ( * 1437)

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