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Heads of State

Year of the Earth- pig己亥(at the beginning of earth - dog戊戌)

Syria: 1850/51 ( the year in October )

  • Secured 2.1 Date of birth
  • 2.2 Exact date of birth unknown
  • 3.1 January to April
  • 3.2 May-December
  • 3.3 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

America

  • April 27: In the presence of Sebastián de Belalcázar and Nicholas spring man of Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada through the formal legal foundation of the city of Santa Fé de Bogotá.
  • May 28: Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay on the coast of Florida and began his four -year expedition through the North American Southeast.
  • August 15: At the site of the Inca city Yarowilca the conquistador Gómez de Alvarado y Contreras founds the city of La muy noble y leal ciudad de los Caballeros del León de Huánuco.
  • Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain, sends the priest Marcos de Niza of Mexico City on the search of the mythical Seven Cities of Cibola in the north. He is led by the Moors Estevanico, find the cities and explore whether an expedition 's worth there.

Holy Roman Empire

  • February 6: John, first Duke of Jülich -Cleves duchies United Mountain, dies. Is succeeded by his son William.
  • April 17: After the death of George the Bearded, his son and crown prince Friedrich is predeceased on February 26, will be 66 - year-old brother Henry the Pious of Saxony and Duke of Sagan and Margrave of Meissen. Under his reign, Protestantism the state religion. Those who refuse to accept the new religion, is deported or detained. On 25 May in Leipzig, in the presence of Martin Luther, the launch celebration of the Reformation instead. In November, he has to make some concessions in order to get funding approved against the parliament, however.
  • The only ten years existing Duchy Gifhorn is founded.

More Events in Europe

  • March 8: Nicholas Carew is to have been involved because of the allegations in the Exeter conspiracy against King Henry VIII of England in the previous year, was executed at the Tower of London.
  • August 15: The French King Francis I issues the Edict of Villers -Cotterets, where it is decreed that every official document must be written in French.

Science and Technology

  • The first copies of the Charter drawn up by the Swedish bishop Olaus Magnus in twelve years of work Marina are printed in Venice. It is the earliest map of Northern Europe.

Culture

  • The written by Martin Luther probably in 1535 Christmas song Vom Himmel hoch, where I'm from is the first time printed.

Religion

  • January 24: Anna Jansz is executed in Rotterdam because of the singing of a Baptist song by drowning.
  • April 19: In Frankfurt propriety of the 1539 Nuremberg decency of 1532 affirms that should secure the status quo between Protestants and Catholics in the empire.
  • Lutheranism prevails against the resistance of the Catholic bishop, Jón Arason in Iceland.
  • The occasion of the Reformation in England began on the orders of King Henry VIII in the previous dissolution of the English monasteries continues. Among other things, Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey and Kirkstall Abbey to be abandoned.
  • The monastery sky Städt is dissolved during the Reformation in Brandenburg.

Born

Secured birth

  • April 5: Georg Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg -Ansbach and Brandenburg- Kulmbach, Duke of Jägerndorf, Administrator of the Duchy of Prussia ( † 1606 )
  • April 6: Amalia of Neuenahr -Alpen, Countess of Limburg and Electress of the Palatinate († 1602)
  • APRIL 17: Tobias tuner, Swiss painter († 1584)
  • APRIL 30: Barbara of Austria, Duchess of Ferrara ( † 1572)
  • JULY 4:. Ludwig VI, Count Palatine of simmering and Elector of the Palatinate († 1583 )
  • August 19: Andreas Schato, German mathematician, physicist, and physician († 1603)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Jodocus Amman, Swiss- German artist, Kupferätzer and detour, form cutter, painter and author († 1591 )
  • Giovanni Andrea Doria, the Genoese admiral († 1606 )
  • Katarina Hans yolk, mistress of the Swedish King John III. († 1596)
  • Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter († 1610)
  • Henry IV, the last Count of Sayn -Sayn († 1606 )
  • Torii Mototada, Japanese samurai († 1600)

Died

January to April

  • January 24: Anna Jansz, German martyr of the Anabaptist movement (* 1509/1510 )
  • February 6: John, Regent of the United Duchies of Jülich -Cleves - Berg ( * 1490 )
  • February 7: Anna von Brandenburg -Ansbach - Kulmbach, regent of Teschen (* 1487 )
  • March 8: Nicholas Carew, English nobleman (* 1496 )
  • March 11: St. John Baptist Righi, Franciscan hermit (* 1469 )
  • MARCH 13: Thomas Boleyn, English nobleman, father of Anne and Mary Boleyn (* 1477 )

May to December

  • May 7 or September 22: Nanak Dev, Indian saint and founder of a religion of Sikhism (* 1469 )

More death unknown

  • Marco Palmezzano, Italian painter (* 1456 )
  • Ubaidullah, Uzbek governor of Bukhara (* 1476 )
  • Ambrose of four mouth kurkölnischer diplomat, founder of the Lower Rhine noble family Virmond -Neersen ( * before 1480)
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