Year 1477 (MCDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 1477 MCDLXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2230 |
| Armenian calendar | 926 ԹՎ ՋԻԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6227 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1398–1399 |
| Bengali calendar | 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 |
Events
editJanuary–December
edit- 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, 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1973). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 226.
- ^ Sten Lindroth (1976). A History of Uppsala University 1477-1977. Almqvist & Wiksell international. p. 6. ISBN 978-91-506-0081-0.
- ^ Heimann, Heinz-Dieter (2001). Die Habsburger: Dynastie und Kaiserreiche. C.H.Beck. pp. 38–45. ISBN 3-406-44754-6.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Kathleen Wellman (May 21, 2013). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-300-19065-6.
- ^ Essential History of Art. Dempsey Parr. 2000. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-84084-952-3.
- ^ a b c 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.