1473

Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1473 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1473
MCDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita2226
Armenian calendar922
ԹՎ ՋԻԲ
Assyrian calendar6223
Balinese saka calendar1394–1395
Bengali calendar880
Berber calendar2423
English Regnal year12 Edw. 4  13 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar2017
Burmese calendar835
Byzantine calendar6981–6982
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4169 or 4109
     to 
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4170 or 4110
Coptic calendar1189–1190
Discordian calendar2639
Ethiopian calendar1465–1466
Hebrew calendar5233–5234
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1529–1530
 - Shaka Samvat1394–1395
 - Kali Yuga4573–4574
Holocene calendar11473
Igbo calendar473–474
Iranian calendar851–852
Islamic calendar877–878
Japanese calendarBunmei 5
(文明5年)
Javanese calendar1389–1390
Julian calendar1473
MCDLXXIII
Korean calendar3806
Minguo calendar439 before ROC
民前439年
Nanakshahi calendar5
Thai solar calendar2015–2016
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1599 or 1218 or 446
     to 
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1600 or 1219 or 447

Events

JanuaryDecember

Date unknown

  • Stephen the Great of Moldavia refuses to pay tribute to the Ottomans. This will attract an Ottoman invasion resulting in 1475 in the greatest defeat of the Ottomans so far.
  • Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, invades the territory of the neighboring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor; Tlatelolco loses its independence.
  • Possible discovery of the island of "Bacalao" (possibly Newfoundland off North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real.
  • The city walls and defensive moat are built in Celje, Slovenia.
  • Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474, an astronomical wall calendar, is published in Kraków, the oldest known printing in Poland.[2]
  • Florentine physician Marsilio Ficino becomes a Catholic priest.
  • Possible date Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton, in Bruges.

Births

Deaths

  • January 24 Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
  • February 23 Arnold, Duke of Guelders (b. 1410)
  • April 3 Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (b. 1409)
  • April 15 Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyō and monk (b. 1404)
  • May 8 John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
  • June 6 Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
  • June 28 John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, English nobleman (b. 1448)[9]
  • July 10 James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
  • November 26 Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma
  • October Contessina de' Bardi, politically active Florentine woman (b. 1390)
  • December 24 John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
  • date unknown
    • Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
    • Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
    • Sigismondo Polcastro, Paduan physician and natural philosopher (b. 1384)
  • probable Marina Nani, Venetian dogaressa (b. c. 1400)
  • probable Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400)

References

  1. Selcuk Aksin Somel (March 23, 2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Scarecrow Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4617-3176-4.
  2. Carter, F. W. (2006). Trade and Urban Development in Poland: An Economic Geography of Cracow, from Its Origins to 1795. Cambridge University Press. p. 364. ISBN 9780521024389.
  3. "Copernicus born". History.com. A&E Television Networks. February 9, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  4. Lynch, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 352. ISBN 9780199693054.
  5. Krefeld Immigrants and Their Descendants. Vol. 13–17. Links Genealogy Publications. 1996. p. 59.
  6. Grzonka, Michael (November 7, 2016). Luther and His Times. Lulu Press, Inc. p. 58. ISBN 9781365515897.
  7. Arlene Okerlund (2005). Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen. Tempus. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-7524-3384-4.
  8. Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (May 31, 2011). Grant, John N (ed.). Modern Poets. Harvard University Press. p. 336. ISBN 9780674055759.
  9. E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (February 23, 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 482. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
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