1475

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1475 by topic
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Architecture - Art
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1475 in poetry

1475 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1475 MCDLXXV
Ab urbe condita	2228
Armenian calendar	924 ԹՎ ՋԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	6225
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

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: 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]
• The oldest recorded game of chess is played, between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles.
• Conrad of Megenberg's book, Buch der Natur, is published in Augsburg.^[3]

Births

Michelangelo Buonarroti

• January 9 – Crinitus, Italian humanist (d. 1507)
• January 29 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (d. 1577)
• 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)
• March 12 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)
• March 30 – Elisabeth of Culemborg, German noble (d. 1555)
• June 29 – Beatrice d'Este (d. 1497)
• September 6
  • Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (d. 1519)
  • Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d. 1554)
• September 13 – Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (approximate date; d. 1507)
• October 20 – Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Renaissance man of letters (d. 1525)
• November 2 – Anne of York, Fifth daughter of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (d. 1511)
• November 28 – Anne Shelton, elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (d. 1555)
• December 11 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
• 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
  • Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (d. 1526)
  • 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)
  • John Stokesley, English prelate (d. 1539)
  • Gunilla Bese, Finnish noble and fiefholder (d. 1553)

Deaths

• March – Simon of Trent, Italian saint, subject of a blood libel
• March 10 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
• March 20 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
• 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
  • Radu cel Frumos, Prince of Wallachia (b. c. 1437)
  • Theodorus Gaza, one of the Greek scholars who were 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. Mendel, Menachem (2007). "The Earliest Printed Book in Hebrew". Retrieved 2011-12-09.
3. "Book of Nature". World Digital Library. 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2013-08-30.