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| 1475 in poetry |
| 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.
Date unknown[]
- Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book to be printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges.
- Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the first dated book to be printed in Hebrew, in Reggio di Calabria.[2]
- Conrad of Megenberg's book, Buch der Natur, is published in Augsburg.[3]
- 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)[4]
- 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)[5]
- 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)[6]
- November 28 – Anne Shelton, elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (d. 1556)
- December 11 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)[7]
- 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 – Jan IV of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (b. 1410)
- March – Simon of Trent, Italian saint, subject of a blood libel
- March 20 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet[8]
- May 20 – Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (born c.1404)[9]
- 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[]
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 185–187. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Mendel, Menachem (2007). "The Earliest Printed Book in Hebrew". Retrieved December 9, 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Book of Nature". World Digital Library. August 7, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
- ^ Barbara A. Somervill (February 2008). Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter. Capstone. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-7565-1060-2.
- ^ "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 October 26, 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Levin, Carole; Bertolet, Anna Riehl; Carney, Jo Eldridge (November 3, 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.
- ^ "Leo X | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
- ^ A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. 1952. p. 313.
- ^ 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.
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