1475

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Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s
Years:	1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478

1475 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1475 MCDLXXV
Ab urbe condita	2228
Armenian calendar	924 ԹՎ ՋԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	6225
Balinese saka calendar	1396–1397
Bengali calendar	882
Berber calendar	2425
English Regnal year	14  Edw. 4  – 15  Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2019
Burmese calendar	837
Byzantine calendar	6983–6984
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood  Horse) 4171 or 4111     — to — 乙未年 (Wood  Goat) 4172 or 4112
Coptic calendar	1191–1192
Discordian calendar	2641
Ethiopian calendar	1467–1468
Hebrew calendar	5235–5236
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1531–1532
- Shaka Samvat	1396–1397
- Kali Yuga	4575–4576
Holocene calendar	11475
Igbo calendar	475–476
Iranian calendar	853–854
Islamic calendar	879–880
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 7 (文明７年)
Javanese calendar	1391–1392
Julian calendar	1475 MCDLXXV
Korean calendar	3808
Minguo calendar	437 before ROC 民前437年
Nanakshahi calendar	7
Thai solar calendar	2017–2018
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1601 or 1220 or 448     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1602 or 1221 or 449

Year 1475 ( MCDLXXV ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 10 – Battle of Vaslui (Moldavian–Ottoman Wars): Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire, which is led at this time by Mehmed the Conqueror of Constantinople.
• July 4 – Burgundian Wars: Edward IV of England lands in Calais, in support of the Duchy of Burgundy against France. ^[1]
• August 29 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends the brief war between France and England.
• November 13 – Burgundian Wars – Battle on the Planta: Forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious against those of the Duchy of Savoy, near Sion, Switzerland.
• November 14 – The original Landshut Wedding takes place, between George, Duke of Bavaria, and Hedwig Jagiellon.
• December – The Principality of Theodoro falls to the Ottoman Empire, ^[2] arguably taking with it the final remnant of the successor to the Roman Kingdom after nearly 2,228 years of Roman civilization since the legendary Founding of Rome in 753 BC.

Date unknown

• Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges (or 1473–74?).
• Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the first dated book to be printed in Hebrew, in Reggio di Calabria. ^[3]
• Conrad of Megenberg's book, Buch der Natur, is published in Augsburg. ^[4]
• In Wallachia, Radu cel Frumos loses the throne (for the last time), and is again replaced by Basarab Laiotă.

Births

Michelangelo Buonarroti

• January 9 – Crinitus, Italian humanist (d. 1507)
• January 29 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (d. 1555)
• February 25 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (d. 1499)
• March 6 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor (d. 1564) ^[5]
• March 12 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)
• March 30 – Elisabeth of Culemborg, German noble (d. 1555)
• June 29 – Beatrice d'Este, duchess of Bari and Milan (d. 1497)
• September 6
  • Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (d. 1519)
  • Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d. 1554)
• September 8 – John Stokesley, English prelate (d. 1539) ^[6]
• September 13 or April 1476 – Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (approximate date; d. 1507)
• October 20 – Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Italian Renaissance man of letters (d. 1525)
• November 2 – Anne of York, seventh child of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (d. 1511) ^[7]
• November 28 – Anne Shelton, elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (d. 1556)
• December 11 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521) ^[8]
• December 24 – Thomas Murner, German satirist (d. c. 1537)
• date unknown
  • Valerius Anshelm, Swiss chronicler
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador (approximate date; d. 1519)
  • Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama (d. 1541)
• probable
  • Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr (d. 1554)
  • Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (d. 1502)
  • Pierre Gringoire, French poet and playwright (d. 1538)
  • Filippo de Lurano, Italian composer (d. 1520)
  • Gunilla Bese, Finnish noble and fiefholder (d. 1553)

Deaths

• January – Radu cel Frumos, Voivoid of Wallachia (b. c. 1437)
• February 3 – John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1410)
• March – Simon of Trent, Italian saint, subject of a blood libel
• March 20 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet ^[9]
• May 20 – Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (born c.1404) ^[10]
• June 13 – Joan of Portugal, Queen of Castile (b. 1439)
• September 6 – Adolph II of Nassau, Archbishop of Mainz (b. c. 1423)
• December 10 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (b. 1397)
• date unknown
  • Theodorus Gaza, Greek scholar, one of the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th century (b. c. 1400)
  • Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Masuccio Salernitano, Italian poet (b. 1410)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.  185–187. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
2. Vasiliev, Alexander A. (1936). The Goths in the Crimea. Cambridge, MA. p. 259.
3. Mendel, Menachem (2007). "The Earliest Printed Book in Hebrew". Archived from the original on August 27, 2021. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
4. "Book of Nature". World Digital Library . 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
5. Barbara A. Somervill (February 2008). Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter. Capstone. p. 102. ISBN   978-0-7565-1060-2.
6. "Stokesley, John (1475–1539), bishop of London" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26563. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 26 October 2021.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. Levin, Carole; Bertolet, Anna Riehl; Carney, Jo Eldridge (3 November 2016). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650. Taylor & Francis. p. 275. ISBN   978-1-315-44071-2.
8. "Leo X | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
9. Ogg, Oscar (1952). A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. p. 313. ISBN   9780690841152.
10. Thelma Anna Leese (1996). Blood Royal: Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England, 1066-1399: the Normans and Plantagenets. Heritage Books. p. 302. ISBN   978-0-7884-0525-9.