A 🦒 is presented to China's Emperor Cheng Zu as a gift from the Sultan of Bengal, Saifuddin Hamza Shah. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org #giraffe #exoticpets

The @durhamschool.bsky.social is founded as a grammar school in the city of Durham, England by Thomas Langley, Prince-Bishop of Durham. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

The @uniofstandrews.bsky.social in Scotland is granted a charter of privilege by the local bishop. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

The new Pope Alexander V issues a papal bull granting a charter to the @unileipzig.bsky.social #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

The first record is written of whiskey being consumed in Ireland, where it is distilled by Catholic monks. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

In England: the Multipliers Act:"It shall be felony to use the craft of multiplication of gold or silver", prohibiting any alchemist who has discovered how to transmute substances into precious metals. The law remains until repealed 284 years later #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org

The "False Olaf", a Bohemian immigrant who bore a resemblance to the late King Olaf of Denmark and Norway and impersonated the late monarch earlier in the year, is burned at the stake as punishment. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org #FalseOlaf

The @uni-wuerzburg.de is founded. #InTheYearOfMyNumberOfFollowers via @wikipedia.org