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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Ox辛丑( at the beginning of the year metal rat庚子)

Syria: 1852/53 ( the year in October )

• Secured 3.1 Date of birth
• 3.2 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

America

• May 8 Hernando de Soto discovered the first European to see the Mississippi River.

Europe and the Mediterranean

• Brand Prague Castle, including the go Bohemian regional records lost.
• Transylvania is independent principality under Ottoman tutelage.
• Grünenbach at Waldbroel is first mentioned.

Asia

• The Burmese king Tabinshwehti of Taungu conquered the city Martaban and destroys them mostly, after which they never regained their previous political and economic importance again.

Economy

• In the fall of Lüneburg thaler is characterized for the first time.
• The Chinese port of Xiamen is first used by European sailors as a trading port.

Society and Sports

• February: In a written in the county of Renfrewshire in the monastery of Paisley document the curling similar game with stones on the ice is first written records.

Religion

• Martin Luther wrote in hearty language the work Against Hanswurst on ecclesiology.
• The Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII of England is complete.
• In Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola, Santa María la Menor Cathedral is dedicated.

Disasters

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Born

Secured birth

• FEBRUARY 21: Felipe V, Count of Hanau- Lichtenberg ( † 1599)
• March 25: Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( † 1587 )

• November 9: Menso Alting, German preacher and theologian of the Reformation period († 1612 )
• December 14: Sophie of Brandenburg, Viscountess of Bohemia († 1564)
• DECEMBER 21: Thomas Schweickershausen, armless art writer († 1602)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Nobukimi Anayama, Japanese samurai († 1582)
• El Greco, Greek- Spanish painter († 1614)
• Hattori Hanzō, Japanese Samurai and Ninja († 1596)
• Renée de Rieux, demoiselle de Châteauneuf, French noblewoman, mistress of the French King Henry III. († 1582)
• Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Icelandic mathematician, cartographer and Bishop († 1627 )

Died

• JANUARY 23: Gottschalk of Ahlefeldt, the last Catholic bishop of Schleswig ( * 1475 )
• MARCH 17: Angelo Beolco called Ruzante, Italian playwright (* 1496 )
• MARCH 18: Henricus Ubbius, learned jurist, East Frisian Chancellor and chronicler (c. 1495 )
• MARCH 25: Paul Lindenau, German Lutheran theologian (* 1489 )

• APRIL 29: John Gramann, German reformer and writer of hymns (* 1487 )
• MAY 23: Urbanus Rhegius, reformer, who was unusually active in both South and North Germany (* 1489 )
• MAY 28: Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, English aristocrats and Catholic martyr (* 1473 )
• June 4: Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish conquerors (c. 1486 )

• JUNE 26: Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror (* around 1476 or 1478)

• November 4: Wolfgang Capito, the reformer of Strasbourg (* 1487 )
• November 9: Caspar Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden, German humanist and canons (* 1464 )
• November 15: Margaret Blarer, German Reformed Deaconess (* 1494)
• November 16: Elizabeth silver iron, German citizen woman, wife of the reformer Martin Bucer (* 1495 )