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Jobst of Moravia dies at Brno January 17 at age 60, leaving the way open for his cousin, the Hungarian king Sigismund of Luxembourg, to become German king (see 1410; 1414). The mark of Brandenburg comes under the governorship of Nuremberg's feudal baron Friedrich VI, and the Hohenzollerns will by the end of this century make the now 181-year-old city of Berlin their capital and permanent residence.
The Peace of Thorn signed February 1 ends the Slavic advance but fails to give Poland access to the Baltic and costs the Teutonic Knights only the Lithuanian territory of Samogitia despite their crushing defeat last year at Tannenberg; but the ransom paid by the Knights to secure the release of Casimir, duke of Pomerania, leaves their treasury bare (see Second Peace of Thorn, 1466).
Portugal and Castile make peace after 26 years of hostilities; Portugal begins her rise as a great world power.
The Ottoman prince Musa enlists Serbian support to attack Suleiman June 5 at Edirne (Adrianople) (see 1403; Serbia, 1395). Suleiman is defeated and killed, but Musa alienates his supporters with his radical policies and the Serbs ally themselves with Musa's brother Mehmet (see 1413).
A new ban is pronounced in March on Prague's Jan Hus but he continues to preach in defense of the treatises written by John Wycliffe (see 1409; 1414).
A Celestine monastery is founded at Vichy by France's Charles VI (see 1605).
The University of St. Andrews has its beginnings in a college founded in Scotland's Fife region. St. Salvator's College will be built in 1450, St. Leonard's College in 1512, St. Mary's (later a divinity school) in 1537, and St. Andrews will survive as Scotland's oldest institution of higher learning.
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