1477

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1477 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1477 MCDLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2230
Armenian calendar	926 ԹՎ ՋԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	6227
Balinese saka calendar	1398–1399
Bengali calendar	883–884
Berber calendar	2427
English Regnal year	16  Edw. 4  – 17  Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2021
Burmese calendar	839
Byzantine calendar	6985–6986
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire  Monkey) 4174 or 3967     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire  Rooster) 4175 or 3968
Coptic calendar	1193–1194
Discordian calendar	2643
Ethiopian calendar	1469–1470
Hebrew calendar	5237–5238
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1533–1534
- Shaka Samvat	1398–1399
- Kali Yuga	4577–4578
Holocene calendar	11477
Igbo calendar	477–478
Iranian calendar	855–856
Islamic calendar	881–882
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 9 (文明９年)
Javanese calendar	1393–1394
Julian calendar	1477 MCDLXXVII
Korean calendar	3810
Minguo calendar	435 before ROC 民前435年
Nanakshahi calendar	9
Thai solar calendar	2019–2020
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1603 or 1222 or 450     — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1604 or 1223 or 451

The situation of 1477, with Calais, the English Pale and neighboring counties.

Year 1477 ( MCDLXXVII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 5 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed; this marks the end of the Burgundian Wars. ^[1]
• February? – Volcano Bardarbunga erupts in Iceland, with a VEI of 6.
• February 11 – Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the Great Privilege , by which the Flemish cities recover all the local and communal rights which have been abolished by the decrees of the dukes of Burgundy, in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.
• February 27 – Uppsala University is founded, becoming the first university in Sweden and all of Scandinavia. ^[2]
• August 19 – Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire, and detaching them from France. ^[3]
• November 18 – William Caxton produces Earl Rivers' translation into English of Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres , at his press in Westminster, the first full-length book printed in England on a printing press. ^[4]

Undated

• Ivan III of Russia marches against the Novgorod Republic, marking the beginning of Russian Colonialism.
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola starts to study canon law, at the University of Bologna.
• Thomas Norton (alchemist) writes Ordinall of Alchemy.
• The first edition of The Travels of Marco Polo is printed.

Births

• January 13 – Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1527)
• January 14 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
• January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
• January 25 – Anne of Brittany, sovereign duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514) ^[5]
• March 20 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
• June 22 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English noble (d. 1530)
• July 4 – Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (d. 1534)
• July 12 – Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
• September 1 – Bartolomeo Fanfulla, Italian mercenary (d. 1525)
• September 19 – Ferrante d'Este, Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero (d. 1540)
• September 21 – Matthäus Zell, German Lutheran pastor (d. 1548)
• date unknown– István Báthory, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1534)
• probable
  • Giorgione, painter in Italian High Renaissance (d. 1510) ^[6]
  • Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (d. 1533)
  • Lambert Simnel, pretender to the throne of England (d. c. 1534)
  • Il Sodoma, Italian painter (d. 1549)
  • Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat (d. 1539)

Deaths

• January 2
  • Franzone, Italian assassin (executed) ^[7]
  • Gerolamo Olgiati, Italian assassin (executed) ^[7]
  • Carlo Visconti, Italian assassin (executed) ^[7]
• January 5 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (in battle) (b. 1433) ^[1]
• January 6 – Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme
• January 15 – Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1449)
• April – William Hugonet, former chancellor of Burgundy (executed)
• June 27 – Adolf, Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen (1465–1471) (b. 1438)
• August 4 – Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
• August 11 – Latino Orsini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1411)
• December 19 – Maria of Mangup, Princess-consort of Moldavia
• June 1– Charlotte de Brézé, French countess (b. 1446)

References

1. Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 226.
2. Sten Lindroth (1976). A History of Uppsala University 1477-1977. Almqvist & Wiksell international. p. 6. ISBN   978-91-506-0081-0.
3. Heimann, Heinz-Dieter (2001). Die Habsburger: Dynastie und Kaiserreiche. C.H.Beck. pp. 38–45. ISBN   3-406-44754-6.
4. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN   0-14-102715-0.
5. Kathleen Wellman (May 21, 2013). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press. p. 72. ISBN   978-0-300-19065-6.
6. Essential History of Art. Dempsey Parr. 2000. p. 63. ISBN   978-1-84084-952-3.
7. Lauro Martines (April 24, 2003). April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN   978-0-19-988239-7.