1474

Year 1474 (MCDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1474 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1474
MCDLXXIV
Ab urbe condita2227
Armenian calendar923
ԹՎ ՋԻԳ
Assyrian calendar6224
Balinese saka calendar1395–1396
Bengali calendar881
Berber calendar2424
English Regnal year13 Edw. 4  14 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar2018
Burmese calendar836
Byzantine calendar6982–6983
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4170 or 4110
     to 
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4171 or 4111
Coptic calendar1190–1191
Discordian calendar2640
Ethiopian calendar1466–1467
Hebrew calendar5234–5235
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1530–1531
 - Shaka Samvat1395–1396
 - Kali Yuga4574–4575
Holocene calendar11474
Igbo calendar474–475
Iranian calendar852–853
Islamic calendar878–879
Japanese calendarBunmei 6
(文明6年)
Javanese calendar1390–1391
Julian calendar1474
MCDLXXIV
Korean calendar3807
Minguo calendar438 before ROC
民前438年
Nanakshahi calendar6
Thai solar calendar2016–2017
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1600 or 1219 or 447
     to 
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1601 or 1220 or 448

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • February The Treaty of Utrecht puts an end to the Anglo-Hanseatic War.
  • March 19 The Senate of the Republic of Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world.[1] New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them. This is considered the first modern patent system.[2]
  • July 25 By signing the Treaty of London, Charles the Bold of Burgundy agrees to support Edward IV of England's planned invasion of France.[3]
  • December 12 Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile, a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile, and her niece Juana, who is supported by her husband, Afonso V of Portugal. Isabella wins the civil war after a lengthy struggle, when her husband, the newly crowned Ferdinand II of Aragon, comes to her aid.

Date unknown

  • Marsilio Ficino completes his book Theologia Platonica (Platonic Theology).
  • Axayacatl defeats the Matlatzinca of the Toluca Valley.

Births

  • January 7 Thihathura II of Ava (d. 1501)
  • March 1 Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540)
  • March 21 Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540)
  • May 5
    • Juan Diego, Roman Catholic Saint from Mexico (d. 1548)
    • Giovanni Stefano Ferrero, Italian cardinal (d. 1510)
  • May 18 Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
  • August 6 Luigi de' Rossi, Italian cardinal (d. 1519)
  • September 8 Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)[4]
  • October 6 Luigi d'Aragona, Italian cardinal (d. 1518)
  • October 7 Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1536)
  • October 13 Mariotto Albertinelli, High Renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine school (d. 1515)
  • November 7 Lorenzo Campeggio, Italian Cardinal (d. 1539)
  • November 8 Francesco Vettori, Italian diplomat (d. 1539)
  • November 11 Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (d. 1566)
  • December 24 Bartolomeo degli Organi, Italian musician (d. 1539)
  • date unknown
    • Anacaona, Taino queen and poet (d. 1503)
    • Juan Diego, Mexican Catholic saint (d. 1548)
    • Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Italian painter (d. 1539 or 1540)
    • Cuthbert Tunstall, English bishop and diplomat (d. 1559)
    • Humphrey Kynaston, English highwayman (d. 1534)
  • probable
    • Sebastian Cabot, Venetian explorer (d. c. 1557)[5]
    • Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of England (d. 1534)
    • Stephen Hawes, English poet (d. c. 1521)
    • Sir John Seymour, English courtier (d. 1536)
    • Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England (d. 1499)

Deaths

Eric II, Duke of Pomerania died 5 July
Ali Qushji died 16 December
  • January 3 Pietro Riario, Catholic cardinal (b. 1447)
  • March 22 Iacopo III Appiani, Prince of Piombino (b. 1422)
  • April 14 Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. 1414)
  • April 30 Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort (b. 1456)
  • May 4 Alain de Coëtivy, Catholic cardinal (b. 1407)
  • May 9
    • Alfonso Vázquez de Acuña, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaén and Bishop of Mondoñedo (b. 1474)
    • Peter von Hagenbach, Alsatian knight and ruler (b. 1423)
  • May 11 John Stanberry, Bishop of Hereford[6]
  • May 14 Choe Hang, Korean politician (b. 1409)
  • July 5 Eric II, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast (b. 1418)
  • July 9 Isotta degli Atti, Italian Renaissance woman (b. 1432)
  • July 18 Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1420)
  • August 1 Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy, English politician (b. 1416)
  • August 16 Ricciarda of Saluzzo (b. 1410)
  • August 26 James III of Cyprus (b. 1473)
  • September 21 George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1390)
  • October 1 Juan Pacheco, Spanish noble and politician (b. 1419)
  • November William Canynge, English merchant (b. c. 1399)
  • November 27 Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer (b. 1397)[7]
  • December 1 Nicolò Marcello, Doge of Venice (b. 1397)
  • December 11 King Henry IV of Castile (b. 1425)[8]
  • December 16 Ali Qushji, Ottoman astronomer and mathematician (b. 1403)
  • date unknown
    • Gomes Eannes de Azurara, Portuguese chronicler (b. c. 1410)
    • Antoinette de Maignelais, French royal favorite (b. 1434)
    • Gendun Drup, 1st Dalai Lama (b. 1391)
  • probable
    • Walter Frye, English composer
    • Jehan de Waurin, French chronicler

References

  1. Ladas, Stephen Pericles (1975). Patents, Trademarks, and Related Rights: National and International Protection, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. pp. 6–7. ISBN 9780674657755.
  2. Schippel, Helmut (2001). "Die Anfänge des Erfinderschutzes in Venedig". In Lindgren, Uta (Hrsg.) (ed.). Europäische Technik im Mittelalter, 800 bis 1400: Tradition und Innovation (4. ed.). Berlin: Wolfgang Pfaller. pp. 539–550. ISBN 3-7861-1748-9.
  3. Lander, J. R. (1981). Government and Community: England, 1450-1509. Harvard University Press. p. 287. ISBN 9780674357945.
  4. Peter G. Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (January 1, 2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
  5. Plinio Prioreschi (1996). A History of Medicine: Renaissance medicine. Horatius Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-888456-06-6.
  6. Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society, Exeter, England (1867). Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society. p. 218.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. Reinhard Strohm (February 17, 2005). The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500. Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-521-61934-9.
  8. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2003. p. 733. ISBN 978-0-85229-961-6.
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